Category: Column 3

Presidential hopeful Cory Booker would enforce his proposed assault weapon buy-back plan with “criminal sanctions”, meaning those who refuse to participate in the program by selling their rifles to the government, could go to jail.

Photojournalist Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi is interviewed in Tate.org, for a glimpse into the backstory of what is behind the images you see in publications today, and of one of the individuals who create them.

If you want the truth about something, go to the experts who specialize in the topic. When it comes to polar bears, Susan Crockford is the verified, go-to expert.

124 mph winds and pelting rain pounded India as Cyclone Fani made landfall in the town of Puri on Friday. Officials said millions were spared as a result of advance warning and evacuations of residents seeking the safety of storm shelters.

James Woods, a regular conservative Tweeter, being banned from the platform caused President Trump to respond by Tweeting: “Social Media & Fake News Media, together with their partner, the Democrat Party, have no idea the problems they are causing for themselves,” he wrote. “VERY UNFAIR!”

After hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihadist rockets targeted civilians in Israel, Rep. Ilhan Omar decried the damage caused by Israel’s response.

The promotion of Islam and Sharia in the West is the top responsibility of Muslims living here. Sharia is to become the dominant arbiter of societal behavior according to their beliefs, and there is no compromising or half measures…it shall be done, no two ways about it. Assimilation is not even a consideration. The primary impediment for this process in America, is our Constitution.

Caravan organizers in Honduras could hardly assemble a few hundred migrants when normally thousands would turn up to begin a new march. Chatter on social media warning that the Mexican government has started cracking down and arresting large groups within Mexico’s borders, seems to have had an immediate effect on numbers willing to push forward to America.

Attorney General William Barr, in a Senate hearing today, indicated that he has his eye on several targets to investigate related to Hillary Clinton email irregularities and to the two year Mueller investigation beginnings.

New York State Supreme Court Justice Alexander Tisch, ruled that plans for The Park Savoy, at 158 W. 58th St, to be adapted as a homeless shelter in Manhattan, may proceed, against the strong opposition of residents of what is locally known as “Billionaires’ Row.”

Coyotes, traffickers, smugglers, etc are swarming the border posing as “families” to exploit vagaries of the U.S. Immigration law, overwhelming border control agencies.

The effort to designate The Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization will lead to economic and travel sanction against the Islamist activist group in Egypt.

Some factions of the Venezuelan military may be involved in an active attempt to oust Maduro and install the elected President Guaido. Sources say Maduro was ready to leave the country for Cuba, until he was persuaded by Russia to remain.

It is hard to imagine a more awe inspiring visual spectacle than the gorgeous windows of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. Many, with obvious reason, consider it to be the most beautiful room on Earth.

Beheadings and amputation punishments are being meted out so frequently in 2019 that Saudi Arabia has actually advertised for eight new executioners. No experience necessary.

A new poll shows that Americans of every stripe are tired of the PC culture where everything offends someone, and those offended expect society to adjust to eliminate the tiniest of infractions.

When Procter and Gamble decided to attack the “toxic masculinity” targeted by the #Me Too movement, they were essentially attacking their core market demographic. It hasn’t worked out so well in the sales department.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee died in 1870 before his citizenship could be restored. In 1975, then Senator Biden voted to pass a bill restoring Lee’s citizenship posthumously. In launching his bid for President last week, Joe Biden hypocritically denounced President Donald Trump for saying that some of the people in Charlottesville protesting the removal of Lee’s statue were “fine people.”

A Chicago attorney pressing to have a Special Prosecutor appointed in the Jussie Smollett case has subpoenaed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, and Judge Sheila O’Brien has filed a “notice to appear” in an effort to get Jussie Smollett to be in attendance as well.

Former Republican Senator Richard Lugar has died at 87.

According to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, by enforcing United States Immigration laws currently on the books, President Trump is violating “human rights.” Apparently she believes that residents of all other countries have some “human right” to illegally enter the United States without going through all of the “completely unjust” legal processes for immigrants to be vetted and then be admitted.

A sadness has come over Adam Schiff. His arousal is reluctantly subsiding now that President Trump has been found by Special Counsel Robert Mueller not to have “colluded with the Russians”, as Schiff has screamed from the rooftops for two years, nonstop. The prospects of an impeachment, led by Schiff, is slowly fading into the rear view mirror as the nation turns to real issues facing them and the country, while he clenches his fists, red faced, and seems to say “But wait!, But wait! There has to be more! Here! Or there! Or Somewhere!”
It must be hard to let go of the prospects that a fantasy will come true, when everyone else knows it will not.

It seems that some people are happy to put the newest and next things into their home in the quest for the ultimate convenience. What cost to your privacy is apparently way down the list of concerns and considerations for those on the latest-and-greatest quest…but should it be more carefully assessed?

The Left has a tactic they often use against their enemies. They intentionally misunderstand, or mis-hear, or simply make up a quote by someone, then attack their victim for being horrible to have said it, when they never said it in the first place. But with multiple media outlets from TV to print and all over the internet, as is commonly known, a lie repeated often enough becomes accepted as truth eventually. A perfect case-in-point were Trump’s comments on the tragedy in Charlottesville. Of course the left promoted the false narrative. It is what they do.
A quote illustrating this is “A lie gets halfway around the world in the morning, before the truth gets its pants on.”

Parents usually care about giving their kids the best opportunity they can to insure their future prospects, and a good education is at the top of the list in those regards. But shelling out $6.5 million dollars just to get them into a college?

Having had pretty much free reign as they blazed the new tech frontiers, giant tech companies have been basically writing their own rules. Now that they are showing overt signs of abusing the public’s trust, especially in privacy issues, how do governments worldwide begin to pull them back into the lanes in which the public expects them to stay? Good question.

Mark Zuckerberg is not asking to have the government regulate Facebook because he wants Facebook to be restrained, so why is he? Obviously he penned his Op-Ed in The Washington Post at the end of March with some Facebook advantage in mind, he has never acted in any other way. So why does he think more stringent government regulations would benefit Facebook?

Now that The Mueller Report has been released and analyzed and the consensus is that it is a virtual vindication of what Trump has been saying from the beginning, that he never colluded nor obstructed at all. But now the focus is being redirected upon those who apparently could not abide his election in 2016 in the first place. How were the FISA spying warrants presented to the FISA Judge? Was the underlying evidence a sham? Who knew and who aided and abetted in the attempt to de-ligitimize Trump’s election? These are questions that point to illegal activities by those in the highest offices in our land. There is now, no glimmer that Trump plans to let it all slide, and many members of “the Deep State” and “The Swamp” are rightly experiencing knots in their stomachs, sleepless nights, and days spent lining up the best legal representation they can find and afford.

The tables are about to be turned on Clinton and Obama associates as Joe diGenova says criminal indictments are coming for players in the Deep State, and The Swamp’s reaction to Trump’s victory in 2016.

A Memphis child murder was committed by an illegal immigrant who had previously been deported five times, making it apparent that lax border policies pushed by liberals significantly confound law enforcement attempts to keep illegal criminals out of our country.

First Quarter data is in and the U.S. economy growth rate of 3.2% has beaten analysts more conservative estimates of 2.3%, and sees a consistent trend for the economy’s steady continued growth.

Google knows everywhere you go, and stores that information in a personal collection to build a dossier on you that helps them anticipate where you might be at any given time, where you shop, work out, dine, and everything else you do, even visiting that secret lover you would rather no one know about.

There are some who speculate that Special Counsel Robert Mueller knew there was no collusion back in August of 2017, and certainly into early 2018. So, could his failure to disclose this information have affected the mid-term elections in November? Many are questioning this very possibility.

A Massachusetts Judge has been charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice for conspiring with a defense attorney to secretly allow an illegal alien defendant to slip out of the back door of the courthouse and to prevent ICE officials from arresting the deportable illegal immigrant career criminal.

Trump Daily Presidential tracking Poll is at 50%.

A new book by Shawn Levy provides a detailed timeline of the night John Belushi died of a drug overdose in a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont Hotel in Los Angeles.

Liberal NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman thinks he has come up with a solution to the illegal immigration problem on the southern border. Except, that most sentient beings anf President Trump have been saying it for at least three years, if not more…BUILD A WALL!

By enacting a prime example of “shooting the messenger”, liberals and Democrats are doing their best to demonize Attorney General William Barr over their disappointment in the outcome of the Mueller Investigation, which completely failed to find an appropriate amount of dirt on Trump for their purposes.

Students who expect their feelings and whether or not every little thing offends them to control their college environment experience are beginning to get a bit of pushback from a few administrators with backbone.

On a mission to “…establish cannabis as a force for good” PAX Labs has raised $420 million in VC cash to set itself up as a $1.7 valued company in the vaporization segment of the burgeoning cannabis industry.

If you have Type 2 diabetes and are looking for ways to spice up your meals, try these low glycemic vegetables for a change.

If it comes down to telling the truth or lying to infidels, under the tenet of Taqiyya in Islam, Muslims are allowed, and even obliged to lie to further the goals of jihad.
If non-Muslim journalists lie to conceal, or obfuscate Islamic jihad, upon what theory can they rest their actions?
Who knows, but they are doing it worldwide every time a terrorist event occurs. They certainly seem to continue to live in Bizarro World in the this regard.

If it doesn’t fit, you must ignore it, seems to be the motto of California Democrat Adam Schiff when confronted with the widely accepted facts that The Steele Dossier, financed by Hillary and the DNC, was a huge piece of fiction. He seems strangely unmotivated to see that evidence, since it does not advance his narrative that Trump is a Russian agent. You really can’t make this stuff up.

What is it about Obama and Hillary and the rest of the liberals who can’t seem to get the word “Christianity” past their lips? It is as bad as when Obama could not bear to speak the words “Islamic Terrorism.”

As long as large factions of the civilized world insist that Islam is not at all connected to Islamic terrorist activities, there will continue to be Islamic terrorist activities.

Why would anyone intentionally place a microphone in their home allowing strangers to listen in on everything that is said, sung, hummed, listened to, or played? Sounds crazy right? I guess you probably will agree that there are a lot of people for whom crazy is just normal behavior. If you don’t fall into that category, here are a few ideas to consider.

An “electrical short circuit” started the Notre Dame fire say news outlets. Ok, how do they know that? The fact is, they don’t. It appears that they are saying this just so you won’t go all rogue and start wondering what other possibilities there could be. They absolutely do not want you to go there, and possibly impugn the sensibilities of some liberal “protected class” like, oh, I don’t know, terrorists?

Tech giants want to get together and form a control center where they decide what information you are allowed to know, and what you may not know. They will take all the events in the world, decide which ones you should know about, and which ones they think you cannot handle knowing about, and erase the latter from existence…all for your own good, of course.

Read the full Mueller Report here.

Attorney General William Barr acting for The Department of Justice released The Mueller Report Thursday morning with a minimum amount of legally required redactions.

Is the Notre Dame fire a symbol of the state of Christianity in the world today? Are Secular Leftism and Islamism a double edged sword that seeks to minimize the influence of Christianity in today’s world? Many definitely seem to think so.

Recent laser scans of Notre Dame Cathedral will no doubt be invaluable in recreating in meticulous detail, the iconic Gothic interior architecture.

In “White”, Bret Easton Ellis’ new book, almost everyone on the liberal side of national politics is thoroughly trashed for the way the Trump campaign and Presidency reaction has played out for the last 2 1/2 years.

Middlebury College students and some faculty have vocally opposed a lecture that they feel will include viewpoints that they cannot tolerate on campus, and have threatened to protest, therefore the administration has cancelled it.

Marxist doctrine is a key part of the education that children receive in Central American schools, and thus are perfect for the new voters Democrats are so hell bent on enticing to come to The United States any way they possibly can get here. Being malleable to be molded into the “government-is-the-answer-to-all-of-your-problems” worker bees the Democrats need, is key. Go to work, send in your taxes, be quiet, and do as you are told, and do not ask questions are the only actions you need to worry about after you get here and vote for Democrats, because, of course, Democrats will take care of everything else.

People with political or religious reasons to cling to some scientific consensus regarding Darwinism, hold on to their hopes much the same as Climate Change devotees do…with a death grip. These days, however, those firm grasps are beginning to slowly loosen as new and more convincing thoughts and debate positions are being posited by those who are not mere outliers.

Donations to help rebuild the burned Notre Dame Cathedral have reached $1 billion dollars in less than 48 hours. Pledges have poured in from individuals and corporations alike, and French President Macron has ambitiously called for the revered 856 year old religious monument to be rebuilt in 5 years.

Whether or not Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar cares, she is definitely not winning any public relations contests. After only a few months in office, everyone who pays attention has an opinion of her today, and most of those opinions are quite intense.

850 year old Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris goes up in flames. Much of the interior is destroyed, but the exterior structure seems to be intact. Many artworks, and religious artifacts are said to have been rescued. Obviously this story is developing.

A Muslim throws a child from the third floor of the Mall of America down to the hard floor below.
Reuters headline states: “Man arrested after child falls from balcony.”
The Mall is well known as a dangerous and violent place “due to its proximity to a large Muslim population near Minneapolis.”
How far do Americans have to go to protect the sensibilities of Muslims? When does this madness end?

The response from the left, supporting Rep. (D-Minn) Ilhan Omar’s dismissive comments of the 9/11 terrorist tragedy, included disgusting tweets mocking injuries Rep. Dan Crenshaw received in war in Afghanistan. Where are the adults at the top of the Democrat party?

As history is unfolding in Washington with the end of the Mueller Report, the prospects of investigations into the Deep State, and The Swamp dwellers, the growing field of Sociaist Democrats all trying to see who can “out left” each other, and the continuing growing economy to record levels, President Donald Trump is seeing his popularity rise to very impressive levels.

Long after his fourth Masters win fourteen years ago, Tiger Woods has achieved an historic fifth win today by capturing the 83rd playing of the famed tournament.

At 86 years old, and in precarious health, Ruth Bader Ginsburg absolutely is well beyond her peak performance years. Her liberal opinions, based on the ideological composition of today’s court, are virtually meaningless, other than to please her liberal fans. It is a shame to see her in her dimming twilight, be propped up (literally as well as figuratively) on the bench for no other reason than to prevent another Justice from being nominated by the current President.

“A well regulated militia,being neccessary to the security of a free State,the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
These words are troublesome for Rep (D-Ca) Eric Swalwell, who recently announced he is running for president.
He has many ideas on ways he can advocate for infringing on your Second Amendment rights. Do you agree with him?

Amazon and Woody Allen are still locked in a contentious distribution battle over an agreement they signed for streaming the filmmaker’s next several films.

With continued “MeToo” friction, and distribution litigation with Amazon, Allen is finding movie making a bit more difficult, but he plows ahead. This article give fans and detractors alike a window into the storied auteur’s recent challenges.

“Audience development” internet company Zergnet has quickly gone from start-up to dominator in just a few years after getting a bit of financing from well know entrepreneur Mark Cuban in a fascinating new take on driving web traffic to popular websites.

James Holzhauer is killing it on Jeopardy. He has rung up record breaking totals this week and crushed his competition. His winnings on Tuesday alone were $110,914.00. He finished the week with $415,035.00. Here is an article outlining his methodology.