From a reader in Miami: Seen in Little Haiti in Miami. Says empty promises. On a significant intersection, looks like something hit it, used to be a full mural. ...
The majority of the medical equipment taken to Japan by the IDF, including x-ray machinery and lab equipment, will remain in Japan in order to benefit the physicians and local authorities providing care to the community of Minamisanriku and its vicinity. ...
Student reports: Not much accomplished, but people had a chance to get things off their chests...
Many of us were appalled, if not surprised, that the Tsarnaev family (including the suspected Boston bombing brothers and their parents) benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance upon their arrival to this country. Now, it looks like welfare beneficiaries don't even have to leave...
1) Meanwhile in Egypt The New York Times is reporting Egyptians Struggle as Wary Tourists Stay Away: Tourism plummeted in 2011 with the fall of President Hosni Mubarak and the unrest that followed. Some tourists have started to return, but officials say they are mostly beachgoers rather...
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez died today after fighting cancer for two years. Vice President Maduro's statement: Today, the 5th of March, after participating in the meeting of the council of ministers, we came here to the military hospital to follow the sequence of our comandante president's health....
On Monday morning I noted that the mainstream media had taken not a bit of notice of Mia B. Love, or her victory at the Utah Republican convention on Saturday. No more. Yahoo News has a feature article on her, Mia Love: black, conservative, Mormon, GOP House candidate...
Mia B. Love won a historic nomination at the Utah Republican convention on Saturday to run for Congress in the newly-created 4th Congressional District. Love was the first black woman elected mayor in Utah's history, is the first black woman nominated for Congress in Utah, and if elected to Congress, would...
There are few things so vile as the various "Israel Apartheid Week" activities that have taken place the last few years, an attempt by the coalition of Islamists and Leftists to delegitimize Israel, and everything about Israel. Look at the speaker list of almost any of...
If you haven't heard of Ludmya "Mia" B. Love before, you will be hearing a lot more about her. Mia has the potential to be the next big thing in conservative politics. And you heard about her here first! Mia is the American-born daughter of Haitian...
Today the tragedy in Japan is on the minds of people around the world. This was a terrible tragedy, but it lifts my spirits to see how being in a developed country can dramatically increase the welfare of a group of people in such a...
Michael Shaw, who blogs at HuffPo, has a serious case of PDS. Upon seeing an AP photo with a caption asserting that Sarah Palin had "her hair done during a visit to a cholera treatment center," Shaw went wild:If I find the fantastically clever Sarah Palin to...
Some thoughts, and inviting reader comments, on a variety of topics today (a running list):Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers. Which is an interesting point, because some of my readers are trolls and nutroot lurkers. I even wish them a Happy Thanksgiving, because I'm that big...
This is the latest in a series on the use of the race card for political gain:As detailed here before, the NAACP has launched a campaign to smear the Tea Party movement as racist. Now the NAACP is doubling down.In order to prove that it...
Ethan Bronner of The New York Times has a classic piece on the opening of a luxury mall in Gaza.How does one balance the endless propaganda that Gaza is a concentration camp and that Israelis are committing genocide, with the reality that Gaza exceeds most...
