Category — For The Record

Detroit owes money to more than 100,000 creditors. For starters, perhaps they should require all creditors move to the city – an instant population boost! Of course, there are more than just financial problems. Reports indicate that 47% of the city’s residents are functionally illiterate – that’s almost the same percentage as the United States Senate.   Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since Benghazi and the Obama administration’s “It was the video” explanation, any uprising in the Middle East must be first met with one basic question – what’s playing?   Read the rest of this entry »

The Magna Carta, contrary to what some think, does not translate to “Big U-Haul.” Although, in reality, a big U-Haul is what is needed to transport the Obamacare regulations (seven feet high and counting) around. Like the Constitution, the Magna Carta is also a slim document, but is packed with so much that it guided the framers as they debated and crafted the Constitution some 560 or so years later. We may recall that community organizer extraordinaire, Saul Alinksy, wrote “Rules for Radicals.” Well, think of the Magna Carta as “Rules for Kings.”   Read the rest of this entry »

“Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.” So said Barack Obama two days after London’s the Guardian news outlet broke the story that the government has required cellular provider Verizon to turn over its daily customer call information to the …

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Much head scratching occurred when the Nobel committee awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, just months after becoming president. Many (me included) believed that he had not accomplished anything yet as president and certainly nothing that warranted …

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Do we really think that private companies are permitted to launch communications satellites into space, without government control mechanisms? Is it really that far fetched that the US government might want a backdoor, or access in the event of national emergency? What if the government has been siphoning off conversations for processing for quite some time – directly from the source?   Read the rest of this entry »

If you haven't seen this, you owe it to yourself to watch it. Dr. Benjamin Carson is the director of the pediatric neurosurgery division at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. He is the son of an illiterate, single black woman and is now a highly esteemed doctor. While not intending to offend anyone, notice that Mr. Obama doesn't applaud his words.   Read the rest of this entry »

Ideas Have Consequences is such dense book, that it would be impossible to review it in the normal mode. Indeed even treating each chapter as an entity unto itself may not be sufficient. And so, consider this a multi-part review.   Read the rest of this entry »

President Obama was right. He promised the most transparent administration ever and he kept his word. It is the most transparently political, transparently corrupt and transparently inept of any administration in recent American history, maybe in all American history.   Read the rest of this entry »

Two stories in the news last week are a reminder that the left is like the Energizer bunny: It just keeps on keeping on.   Read the rest of this entry »