My wife and I just prayed our Rosary for Pope Francis, whose first greeting as pope I watched in the spectacularly mundane surroundings of a Goodyear, where I was having new tires put on my car. I don’t have any particular insight into the man,…
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Someone sent me a video called “ All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars .” Within three minutes I had to turn it off. It begins with a fake quotation from Ben Franklin, arguing that the most important driving force of the American Revolution was the British prohibition on paper money in…
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The newspaper delivery women whose truck was pierced by 102 bullet holes as they were being shot at by the police will not get a new truck , say the LA Police, who had originally promised them a new truck.  The shooting was a case of “mistaken identity,” the department says,…
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Amazon has 86 copies of The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History for the special price of $7.98. Then it’s back to the regular price. Do not spend the rest of your life wondering what if. Go .

Pat writes : What Paul achieved in a half day of speaking from the Senate floor is astonishing. There is a new tent pole in the GOP that stands as tall as any of the rest. McCain and Graham, who are routinely trotted out by Big…
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Can’t wait to hear what former Rick Perry supporter Ted Cruz has to say about foreign policy — a small matter I am expected to overlook, according to an astonishingly large number of people in the “liberty movement.”

Justin Raimondo writes : The thuggish  Ed Schultz  ranted and raved that “Rand Paul is dangerous,” although he did not say to whom. He even took a poll of his brain-dead audience: 90 percent agreed that Sen. Paul is indeed “dangerous!  Lawrence O’Donnell  showed a video montage of sentences from Sen. Paul’s speech taken…
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An interesting piece on nullification , but of course burdened by the usual nonsense. Naturally the only precedent the writer can come up with is southern resistance to desegregation, which is supposed to invalidate the whole principle. (Note the usual double standard: the incarceration of Japanese and Japanese-Americans…
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Remember some time ago, when people dug up old statements by Paul Krugman, from around 2001-2003, in which he said it would be good for the economy to blow up a housing bubble? Krugman and his supporters had all kinds of excuses for these statements.…
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