Random Musings and Random Sarcasm

December 2nd, 2022 12:14 PM

Elon Musk conducted a Twitter poll to ask whether he should reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account. The poll received 15,085,458 votes -- and Twitter issued its final results in just one day! Musk should stop wasting his genius on hobbies like Tesla and SpaceX and become the Maricopa County, Arizona, election supervisor. About that Twitter poll, what’s the over/under on when two-…

A Pro-Abortion Advocate Made This Case Against Abortion

November 28th, 2022 5:48 PM

Pundits, liberal and conservative, underestimated the impact on the midterms of the reaction to the reversal of Roe v. Wade. In states like Kentucky and Michigan, where abortion was on the ballot, restrictions to abortion were lost, and “protecting access” to abortion won. In California, voters voted on Proposition 1, a ballot measure to “codify” abortion by placing the right to abortion in…

Los Angeles Times’s Wrongheaded Recall Postmortem

October 28th, 2022 9:14 AM

California Gov. Gavin Newsom survived his 2021 recall election by 24 points, the same margin by which he won the election in 2018. However, to keep his job he spent over $9 per voter versus $6 per voter to get his job. I ran in the recall election, finishing first among the 46 “replacement” candidates with 3.5 million votes while carrying 57 of California's 58 counties, losing only San…

The Race-Obsessed L.A. City Council

October 21st, 2022 8:30 AM

In a leaked tape, three members of the all-Democrat (plus one independent) Los Angeles City Council, along with a labor leader -- all Latino -- used racist, homophobic, anti-white, anti-Asian, and even anti-Mexican slurs as they plotted to redistrict the city council to increase “Latino power.” LA is approximately 50% Latino, but Latinos control “just” 30% of the 15 council seats. For the…

Reviews of My New Documentary ‘Uncle Tom II’

September 12th, 2022 12:11 PM

The sequel to “Uncle Tom,” the 2020 documentary that I executive produced, just premiered. Watch it on uncletom.com. As with the first, Justin Malone brilliantly directs with Ryder Ansell and me co-writing. It is again beautifully scored by composer Damon Criswell. As of this writing, on the movie website IMDb, “Uncle Tom II” has a jaw-dropping 9.7 rating out of 10.

Student Debt Relief — Reparations for Rich White People

September 1st, 2022 5:55 PM

To reduce inflation, battle climate change, reduce gas prices, stem rising crime and to protect our southern border, President Joe Biden has forgiven $10,000 in federal student loans and extended $20,000 in debt cancellation to Pell Grant recipients for borrowers making less than $125,000 a year. A study by the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found that “Between 69% and 73% of debt…

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CNBC Uses ‘Black Borrowers’ to Push Biden on Student Debt Scheme

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September 1st, 2022 2:04 PM

CNBC exploited African-American students as political leverage to argue that President Joe Biden’s scheme to cancel $10,000 in student debt isn’t enough, and that taxpayers should cover more.

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Larry Elder Tears Apart Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Scam

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August 30th, 2022 2:13 PM

Radio host Larry Elder exposed President Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan as a scam that hoodwinks the working class into subsidizing the wealthy elite.

Climate Change Forecasts Through the Years

August 30th, 2022 2:10 PM

“‘The trouble with almost all environmental problems,’ says Paul R. Ehrlich, the population biologist, ‘is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. ... We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.’” --The New York Times, 1969.

Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’: Two-Tiered Justice?

August 22nd, 2022 6:04 PM

Attorney General Merrick Garland justified the unprecedented FBI raid of the residence of a former president by saying: “The department does not take such a decision lightly. Where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search, and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken.” With the approval of former President Donald Trump and after a…

Barack Obama: Still a Racial Incendiary

July 15th, 2022 6:11 PM

Former President Barack Obama recently gave a speech in which he attacked the critics of “identity politics.” At the June Copenhagen Democracy Summit Obama said: “I have little sympathy for reactionaries who cynically condemn identity politics or cancel culture when really all they're doing is trying to preserve existing privilege or excuse entrenched injustice, or bigotry. I mean, the…

If ‘No One Wants to Take Our Guns,’ Stop Saying the Opposite

June 7th, 2022 2:15 PM

Almost immediately after the 2017 Las Vegas shooting came the calls for “common sense” gun control. The quest almost always begins with a reassurance that “no one wants to take away your guns.” Not everyone read the memo.

Inconvenient Fact About Mass Killings

May 20th, 2022 7:29 PM

After the mass murder of 10 in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket committed by a man who posted a racist manifesto, Wesley Lowery, a CBS reporter, said: “Let's be clear, the stuff Tucker (Carlson) and Laura Ingraham say every night, it could be written by white supremacists very often. There's a section of this manifesto where the shooter starts talking about, 'People will always say diversity…

Leftists Bury Another Norm: Protesters Target Homes of SCOTUS Justices

May 17th, 2022 10:26 AM

After angry public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito draft opinion on reversing Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas said: “We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like. We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom…