Here come some more articles that I found interesting and wanted to share. As always, I hope you find them either food for thought or entertaining … however, you are free to leave a comment on my Facebook page or here, if you are so inclined, if for no other reason than to tell me how much of a donkey’'
Note: Each block of text actually is a link to a story or a web page that I am commenting on. Click on that text and it will take to the page being referred to.
Mr. Rachel offers another interesting view point. Question: Have the thought police really taken over?
Once upon a time, Congress and the Supreme Court were co-equal branches of the US Government ... under our current administration, that concept has fallen to the power of executive action, backed by trying to invoke UN laws and treaties to supersede the other branches. I find this disturbing and more than a bit distressing, but then ... I guess I will just have to live with it.
The American justice system often moves slowly like a glacier, but that is by design. The verdict in this case is correct in all particulars. Now, the ordeal of the sentencing phase begins. Followed by the lengthy and seemingly interminable appeals process. Unfortunately, the latter cannot be hastened, nor can the first, it seems. Speedy trials and quick executions are not in the cards in the US.
Rare Senate bipartisanship on the education bill. Now, if the House would just accept the Senate version, it would put the President in a quandary because he already has promised to veto it. Personally I think the Senate bipartisanship is all for show, for when the reconciled bill comes back, the Democrats will toe the President's line or at least vote to uphold his veto. This way the Senators get to tout both votes for and against the bill ... how cynical is that.
It looks like the Wisconsin Supreme Court does not look kindly on suppressing free speech of conservatives. Of course Liberals and Progressives will all claim it it about too much money in politics, which is bovine scatology. We spend more on advertising tooth paste in this country than we spend on political speech.
Iran is not going to spend a majority of its windfall from the "Deal" on supporting terrorism. Duh! It doesn't have to. Do the math folks. One Percent of $100 BILLION is $1 BILLION, which is far more than the TENS of MILLIONS that is spends to support terrorist organizations.
USA Today strikes again: Ok, President Obama coordinates his message with selected lobbyists ... that shouldn't really be news. Obama and his staff brief his favorite non-official sources and they trot out the talking head circuit and spout his talking points. Business as usual.
Food for thought - No, we don't have the right to do whatever we want. But remember whomever gives rights has the prerogative to take the same rights away. Rights that come from God are not in the Constitution, because the Constitution can't grant them. The Constitution can only say that government is not allowed to abridge those rights that the people are already endowed with by their creator/God. We tend to forget that sometimes, and I fear more so in the 21st Century than in the past.
Retired Col. West pulls no punches about the attack on Naval Facilities in Charleston. You should think about it. He is passionate and there is reason for his passion. Sometimes, when a group of people say they wish you harm, you need to believe them and react. Unfortunately, all we hear from our President is excuses when they are Muslims, and off the wall condemnation of a host of things if they happen to be white. The pattern, unfortunately, is getting tiresome.
Interesting discussion: Should urban chicken coops be banned? What do you think?
Time to panic: 1 in 7 Americans in a new poll think racism is the worst problem the country faces.
Another case for a One-World Government ... are we ready for it ... who gets to be the boss and what form does it take>
Planned Parenthood apologizes - Oopsie, the tone was not right. Understand I am all for family planning and prenatal care services, but I do have problems with abortion on demand. The SCOTUS says abortion is a legal right in the first trimester ... but it hasn't ruled on later. Abortion for convenience seems a bit beyond the pale to me ... as part of my family points out: What about the rights of the unborn human developing in the womb? Does it have no rights until is born and takes its first breath? I find the concept troubling and I honestly don't have the answer, but it bothers me.
Sights on the stars - This commentary is so true. We seem to have lost the will to explore. Content in our own little domain, we have forgotten the heights exploration can deliver to us. We already should be camped out on the Moon ... and probably on Mars. I hope the private efforts now underway can fill the gap left by the American government's abandonment of the ability to dream.
Another view on Planned Parenthood's systematic harvesting of fetal tissue from aborted babies. It is a discussion we should be having.
Michael Barrone takes Hillary to task on her economic view of the world. A bit dated, he says. I tend to agree ... in fact have said from an economic standpoint - quality, affordable childcare always has been an oxymoron.
Interesting commentary - Granted, I know it will get a rather incensed response in some quarters, which probably is why there is much truth in it.
The University of California has problems with micro aggressions ... some world we live in.
The problem with the "Drone Strategy" is the same problem one has with the "Air Power" Doctrine that sees air power as the solution to all things. Sorry, but in the end, nothing replaces the man with a rifle, with a bayonet, on the ground, face to face with the bad guys. Everything else is indiscriminate.
Motive for the Chattanooga Shooter .... ah, is this really all that difficult: Islamic Jihad
Good to remember (even in the military): Sometimes breaking the rules to make a point pays off
Obama loses his cool. The problem with the Iran deal is that Obama couldn't just walk away ... so he came up with a deal that the Iranians would accept. Is it better than war? Only time will tell? Were there other options and things that should have been on the table? Undoubtedly, but all posed a threat to the deal and the deal was all important.
Desert Shield - a turning point in history ...
What weapons will Iran buy? Pretty much everything, now that the sanction are being removed. And look for who is doing the selling and then ask yourself: Were they really trying to contain a weapons program or make lots of bucks selling stuff to Iran. This was what was happening in 2003 ... only the revisionists decline to remember that. Now, we know Obama has no stomach for a fight, and Iran gets what it wants.
No question in my mind as to the answer to this question on the Beeb: Yes, and the sooner the better.
US to blame for ISIS - this is typical Progressive bovine scatology. Everything in the Middle East, all the conflicts, are because the Americans started them. I don't know where these people get this BS, but they seem to forget that the people over there are not marionettes dancing at the end of American strings. Did it ever occur to these idiots that people over there have their own grievances and reasons to go to war. I know, America is all-powerful and nobody anywhere in the world acts in their own interests on their own. It is all in reaction to what America does. That is so damn stupid, it makes me puke.
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