Roblog

2011-12-28T20:02:00.002-05:00

NFL Picks

Week 17.

2011-12-22T18:39:00.000-05:00

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Week 16.

2011-12-15T17:13:00.002-05:00

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Week 15.

2011-12-07T18:13:00.002-05:00

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Week 14.

2011-12-03T11:38:00.002-05:00

RJ's NFL Picks

Week 13.

2011-11-22T21:31:00.000-05:00

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Week 12.

2011-11-19T11:56:00.000-05:00

Week 11

NFL Picks.

2011-11-12T07:10:00.002-05:00

Week Ten

NFL Picks.

2011-11-03T22:50:00.002-04:00

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Week 9.

2011-10-29T13:26:00.000-04:00

The Communist Party USA fully supports the Occupy movement

No surprise.

2011-10-28T20:49:00.000-04:00

NFL Picks

Week 8.

2011-10-21T17:30:00.000-04:00

NFL Picks

Week Seven.

2011-10-16T02:16:00.002-04:00

RJ's NFL Picks

Week Six.

2011-10-07T19:28:00.000-04:00

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Week 5.

2011-09-30T23:07:00.002-04:00

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Week 4.

2011-09-23T22:15:00.002-04:00

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Week 3.

2011-09-14T18:00:00.002-04:00

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Week Two.

2011-09-05T14:14:00.000-04:00

Candice Miller - The GOP's 2012 Vice-Presidential Nominee?

It's an interesting thought.

2011-09-05T13:15:00.000-04:00

RJ's NFL Picks

Week One.

2011-09-01T21:29:00.000-04:00

Interview With Republican Presidential Candidate Buddy Roemer

Check it out here.

2011-08-29T01:21:00.002-04:00

Obama's Poll Numbers In 15 Battleground States

Here.

2011-08-26T23:08:00.001-04:00

Obama's Race-Based Spoils System

A taste of the latest Pat Buchanan column:

African-Americans are hardly underrepresented in the U.S. government.

Though only 12 percent to 13 percent of the U.S. population, blacks hold 18 percent of all federal jobs. African-Americans are 25 percent of the employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs, 31 percent of State Department employees, 37 percent of the Department of Education, 38 percent of Housing and Urban Development. They are 42 percent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., 55 percent of the Government Printing Office, 82 percent of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.

According to The Washington Post, blacks hold 44 percent of the jobs at Fannie Mae and 50 percent of the jobs at Freddie Mac.

2011-08-23T16:36:00.000-04:00

Is Obama Finished?

We are fourteen and a half months away from the presidential election, but the question needs to be asked: Is Obama already a lame duck?

2011-08-20T18:54:00.000-04:00

Quadriplegic says violent neighbor assaulted him with fish

LULZ.

2011-08-05T20:47:00.001-04:00

S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating for first time

Thanks, Obama.

2011-07-26T17:37:00.000-04:00

Interview with Cory Adams, Chairman of the Story County, Iowa GOP

I contacted Story County Republican Party Chairman Cory Adams yesterday and he was kind enough to agree to a brief email interview. What follows is an unedited transcript of our exchange.

2011-07-16T22:17:00.000-04:00

Obama's job approval rating down to 42%; 50% now disapprove

The latest Gallup poll shows that President Obama's approval rating is in free-fall. Just 42% of adults now approve of the job Obama is doing as President. Fully 50% disapprove.

2011-07-14T17:36:00.000-04:00

Generic Republican Candidate 47%, Obama 39%

Gallup poll.

2011-07-08T16:30:00.000-04:00

An Establishment In Panic

By Pat Buchanan.

2011-07-04T18:58:00.000-04:00

How to spot a psychopath

Interesting.

2011-07-02T16:06:00.003-04:00

GOP Presidential Polls, Halfway Through 2011

Here.

2011-06-28T19:01:00.000-04:00

Say Goodbye to Los Angeles

Pat Buchanan's latest column.

2011-06-25T19:36:00.000-04:00

Hilarious sentence in an article on Newt's presidential campaign

A former aide said the differences mainly involved the staff view that Gingrich should campaign heavily in the early primary states and Gingrich's view that he should instead go on a Greek cruise with his wife.

2011-06-24T19:13:00.000-04:00

Libya changed everything

Each new day brings another step through the looking glass on Libya, and today it was the NYT’s turn. First Obama out-Bushed Bush, then Hillary started questioning the patriotism of war opponents, and now we’ve got the flagship paper of the liberal intelligentsia wondering why anyone would jeopardize American military credibility by pulling the plug before victory’s been declared. Really.

2011-06-17T14:02:00.002-04:00

Fed Up With Freeloaders

The latest Pat Buchanan column.

2011-06-05T22:57:00.000-04:00

World War Two D-Day stories

Here's just one:

For Harold Baumgarten, a 19 year-old Army private from New York, the invasion started badly and quickly got worse.

Baumgarten had avoided seasickness on the boat trip across the English Channel at the start of the battle because he only had some Cadbury chocolate instead of the big breakfasts other soldiers devoured, he recalled in a telephone interview from his home in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

But soon seasickness was the least of his worries. A German machine gunner mowed down most of the men exiting Baumgarten's boat. There were 30 soldiers in the craft, and only two of them -- including Baumgarten -- survived.

Once on the sand, a shell exploded nearby and ripped off Baumgarten's cheek and left a hole in the roof of his mouth.

After being bandaged, he was rescuing another soldier when more shrapnel hit him in the head.

That night, Baumgarten was advancing along a road with some other soldiers when they came under fire from a German machine gunner, and he was hit in the jaw. At that point, he gave himself a pain-numbing shot of morphine.

"I took a morphine sleep," Baumgarten said. "I thought we lost the war, because after all I'm laying with six dead guys around me."

Baumgarten believes that during that night, some German soldiers searched for cigarettes on the bodies of his dead comrades. Baumgarten, who is Jewish, had drawn a Star of David on the back of his field jacket, as an act of defiance against Nazi Germany's brutality against European Jews.

He said he believes the Germans would have killed him, but they did not see his blood-stained Star of David.

"I thought I heard somebody say, 'Don't worry Yankee boy, you're going to be OK,'" Baumgarten said.

As it turns out, an Allied ambulance did come by and pick up Baumgarten. But the next day, as he lay on a stretcher on the beach, a German sniper's bullet hit him in the knee before he was transported back to England.

Over the years, Baumgarten underwent 23 operations to heal the wounds he suffered in Normandy. Baumgarten himself became a doctor, and practiced for 40 years.

2011-05-27T07:31:00.002-04:00

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2011-05-23T13:23:00.000-04:00

Joplin, Missouri tornado disaster

I donated $25.00 to the American Red Cross. You can donate here.

2011-05-23T00:06:00.000-04:00

Hollywood double standard

The Hangover: Convicted rapist Mike Tyson - good; Mel Gibson - bad.

2011-05-19T08:17:00.000-04:00

TSA officer arrested at Orlando International Airport in possession of gun

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that 25-year-old Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer Rynel B. Delacruz was arrested Monday night for trying to bring a gun through a security checkpoint at Orlando International Airport. He was released on Tuesday after posting just $250 bail.

2011-05-15T15:45:00.000-04:00

Caption This Photo

Post your best ideas in the comments!

2011-05-13T13:42:00.000-04:00

Why Michelle Obama's White House invite to controversial rapper "Common" matters

Here.

2011-05-08T17:34:00.000-04:00

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich considers outsourcing himself to another state

Heh.

2011-05-07T17:45:00.003-04:00

Rating the debate: Republican presidential candidates face off in South Carolina

Here is my take on the debate.

2011-05-04T21:16:00.000-04:00

Never take a water gun to a SEAL fight

It's just a bad idea.

2011-05-04T11:00:00.000-04:00

Florida's attempt to pass an Arizona-style immigration law appears doomed

Time has almost run out for the Florida Legislature in their efforts to pass an immigration bill similar to the one passed in Arizona last year.

2011-05-01T23:51:00.000-04:00

Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents' Dinner: Another donation to Obama

The establishment media's reportage of the event has been utterly predictable and virtually identical, regardless of the outlet: Seth Meyers was hilarious, President Obama was even more hilarious, the buffoonish Donald Trump was rightfully skewered by both, and the audience loved every minute of it.

One small factoid was left out of the media's coverage of the event. A minor detail that I had to research myself, because literally no media outlets reported it. It turns out Seth Meyers is a major Obama supporter and donor. Meyers donated to the Obama campaign on four seperate occasions in 2008, giving a total of $4,600, the maximum amount allowed under federal election law at the time.

2011-04-29T08:18:00.000-04:00

Donald Trump gives profanity-laced "campaign" speech in Las Vegas

On Iraq: "We build a school, we build a road. They blow up the road, they blow up the school. ... In the meantime, we can't get a f---ing school built in Brooklyn."

On OPEC: "We have nobody in Washington that sits back and said, 'You're not gonna raise that f---ing price, you understand me?"

On China: "Listen you motherf---ers, we're gonna tax you 25%."

2011-04-27T15:27:00.000-04:00

Donald Trump shifts his line of attack on Obama: Now release your college records

"I heard at Columbia [University], he wasn't a very good student. He then gets Harvard. How do you get into Harvard if you're not a good student? Now, maybe that's right or maybe it's wrong. But I don't know why he doesn't release his records."

2011-04-26T16:40:00.000-04:00

Florida Governor Rick Scott to close Citizens Property Insurance?

There are reports that Florida Governor Rick Scott is considering abolishing Citizens Property Insurance. Citizens Property Insurance is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt government corporation that provides property insurance to Florida residents statewide. It has more than 1.3 million policyholders, making it the largest property insurer in the state of Florida.

2011-04-23T02:39:00.002-04:00

Videos of Syrians being slaughtered by their government

Gruesome stuff.

2011-04-13T12:58:00.000-04:00

Braco: Money for Nothing and Chicks(?) for Free

LOL.

2011-03-10T14:28:00.001-05:00

Wisconsin Republican lawmakers receiving death threats from union thugs

"Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes [sic] will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks."

2011-01-01T22:58:00.002-05:00

NFL Picks

Week 17.

2010-12-23T15:19:00.002-05:00

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Week 16.

2010-12-16T00:38:00.001-05:00

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Week 15.

2010-12-09T20:40:00.002-05:00

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Week 14.

2010-12-03T01:04:00.000-05:00

We're trying to rebuild this?

From The Guardian:

There is a long tradition of young boys dressing up as girls and dancing for men in Afghanistan, an activity that sometimes crosses the line into child abuse with Afghans keeping boys as possessions.

How about we get the hell out of there and then nuke it from orbit.

2010-12-02T15:06:00.002-05:00

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Week 13.

2010-11-24T18:50:00.002-05:00

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Week 12.

2010-11-18T13:19:00.002-05:00

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Week 11.

2010-11-16T00:43:00.000-05:00

How I Single-handedly Eliminated the Federal Government's Budget Deficit

At Blogcritics Magazine.

2010-11-10T10:24:00.002-05:00

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Week 10.

2010-11-05T23:03:00.002-04:00

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Week Nine.

2010-10-30T14:49:00.002-04:00

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Week 8.

2010-10-28T23:36:00.000-04:00

RJ's 2010 Senate Race Predictions

At Blogcritics Magazine.

2010-10-23T21:36:00.002-04:00

NFL Picks

Week Seven.

2010-10-15T15:50:00.001-04:00

NFL Picks

Week 6.

2010-10-08T13:20:00.000-04:00

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Week 5.

2010-10-02T15:57:00.002-04:00

RJ's NFL Picks

Week 4.

2010-09-24T13:54:00.002-04:00

NFL Picks

Week 3.

2010-09-16T20:49:00.000-04:00

RJ's NFL Picks

Week Two.

2010-09-09T01:41:00.001-04:00

RJ's NFL Picks

Week One.

2010-08-27T13:53:00.000-04:00

Charles Krauthammer

Excellent column:

The last refuge of a liberal

2010-08-16T13:12:00.003-04:00

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2010-07-19T22:23:00.001-04:00

Bias and bigotry in academia

Another excellent column by Pat Buchanan. Excerpt:

As Nieli puts it, "Being Hispanic conferred an admissions boost over being white ... equivalent to 130 SAT points (out of 1,600), while being black rather than white conferred a 310-point SAT advantage. Asians, however, suffered an admissions penalty compared to whites equivalent to 140 SAT points."

"To have the same chance of gaining admission as a black student with a SAT score of 1100, a Hispanic student otherwise equally matched in background characteristics would have to have 1230, a white student a 1410, and an Asian student a 1550."

Was this what the civil-rights revolution was all about – requiring kids whose parents came from Korea, Japan or Vietnam to get a perfect SAT score of 1600 to be given equal consideration with a Jamaican or Kenyan kid who got an 1150? Is this what it means to be an Ivy League progressive?

2010-07-16T21:17:00.001-04:00

Pat Buchanan

On the NAACP.

2010-07-14T01:04:00.001-04:00

White House hits the panic button on fall elections

Amid new polls showing Democrats losing momentum with voters, the White House is sounding less confident about its chances in November.

2010-06-14T18:57:00.000-04:00

When Democrats Attack!

2010-05-25T17:58:00.000-04:00

The War Over America's Past

By Pat Buchanan.

2010-05-18T22:25:00.000-04:00

LOL @ Arlen Specter

His political career is finally over. Die in a fire, you soulless piece of human debris.

2010-04-06T17:50:00.003-04:00

President Obama can't name a single White Sox player

He also called old Comiskey Park "Kamensky Park."

2010-03-27T13:36:00.004-04:00

Christopher Buckley is nuts

He actually wrote this, and was apparently being serious:

"There are two, stand-out original conservative thinkers in my generation, both, as it happened, named David — Frum and Brooks."

2010-03-21T18:53:00.003-04:00

Happy Dependence Day!

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years." - Alexander Fraser Tytler

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." - Alexis de Tocqueville

2010-03-10T23:35:00.004-05:00

Democrats Prepare “Slaughter Solution” To Ram Unpopular Health Care Takeover Through Congress Without A Vote

WTF?

The twisted scheme by which Democratic leaders plan to bend the rules to ram President Obama’s massive health care legislation through Congress now has a name: the Slaughter Solution.

The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the powerful House Rules Committee and a key ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), to get the health care legislation through the House without an actual vote on the Senate-passed health care bill.

So now our wonderful elected representatives in the Congress believe they can pass laws without even bothering to vote on them.

With every passing day, the USA becomes more and more like the old USSR...

2010-02-11T14:33:00.003-05:00

CHANGE: Obama to raise taxes on the middle class‏?

Obama on February 24, 2009:

"Now, let me be clear -- let me be absolutely clear, because I know you'll end up hearing some of the same claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: If your family earns less than $250,000 a year -- a quarter million dollars a year -- you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: Not one single dime. Not a dime."

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Obama on February 9, 2010:

President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.

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Now that's change you can believe in!

2010-02-07T16:24:00.001-05:00

LOL

2010-02-01T00:12:00.000-05:00

Obama bows to the Mayor of Tampa

WTF?

2010-01-30T02:09:00.002-05:00

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2010-01-25T19:26:00.001-05:00

Harris Poll: Glenn Beck second most popular television personality in the United States

Poll results here.

From the link: "Glenn Beck is the favorite for both Republicans and for Conservatives, but, interestingly, also for Independents. Oprah Winfrey is number one for Democrats and Moderates, while Jon Stewart is the favorite for Liberals."

2010-01-22T14:48:00.001-05:00

Is the Humane Society racist?

"I'm in Haiti -- animals need your help‏"

2010-01-09T20:03:00.001-05:00

"Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster"

A must-read excerpt from Game Change.

2010-01-08T14:34:00.002-05:00

I lol'd

2010-01-07T12:39:00.000-05:00

Scarborough scoop: How the Taliban’s double-agent suicide bomber ambushed the CIA

Chilling.

2009-12-15T18:50:00.000-05:00

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL: 100 REASONS WHY

Great article.

2009-12-13T16:48:00.000-05:00

Climate change emails row deepens

Must-read.

2009-12-11T22:35:00.001-05:00

NFL Power Rankings

CBS Sports

ESPN

FOX Sports

2009-12-09T01:42:00.000-05:00

Why Import Workers Now?

Excellent Pat Buchanan column.

2009-11-24T14:04:00.000-05:00

More Climategate

The Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate.

2009-11-24T09:19:00.002-05:00

Climategate

"Global Warming" is a fraud.