Twice this week, CNN has debunked a Michael Bloomberg/Barack Obama claim that mass shootings have reached epidemic proportions and have become a “new normal” in America. In fact, mass shootings have remained flat over a 40-year period, even as the population has continued to rise ( Read more... )

My goodness, Hillary gets snippy when Terry Gross questions her "evolution" towards same-sex marriage. The fun begins at 6:10.

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Oh, Hillary, just say you used to oppose SSM for political reasons and now you support it for political reasons. The truth would be so refreshing.

It's been pretty amusing watching the hyperventilation on the Left in response to Eric Cantor's defeat by Professor David Brat. They point to the lack of turnout for the primaries as the cause for this "minority victory" of that horrible bogeyman tea partier -- but, as usual, liberals don't bother consulting facts or even common sense before ( Read more... )

What irony there is in all the liberal bleating over Bowe Bergdahl, who went AWOL and perhaps was even a deserter. Some liberals freely admit they don't really care whether he deserted or not, a rare admission of how appallingly deficient their moral compasses are. If Bergdahl did desert, the President's already bad trade of him for five senior ( Read more... )

The following excerpt from an article by Kurt Schlichter made me laugh out loud -- how uncanny is its accuracy in describing the liberal HPN Mods.

(...) if you do choose to argue with a liberal, understand that your purpose should never be to change the liberal’s mind. You're not going to change the liberal’s mind. Instead, if you choose to argue ( Read more... )

A number of emails have come out this week which show that the direction to target Tea Party groups came directly from Washington D. C. (and not the Cincinnati office as had been repeatedly claimed.) They also show that the targeting of Tea Party groups was indeed politically motivated ( Read more... )

One of the things that precipitated the events that led to my ban at the HPN was my posting a newsworthy and relevant article about several UK hospitals that burned aborted fetus remains for fuel. Moderator Silver Ink Pot deleted the post and told me, "Posting gross stuff for shock value isn't going to fly." An argument about appropriate subject ( Read more... )

I asked my friend Meera to post a couple of innocuous comments on a new account I set up at the HPN (username "Skuld"), as an experiment. Not only did the Moderators remove her innocent posts and ban her, but they also took down one of Malevolent_Bat's posts which welcomed Meera to the forum ( Read more... )

I received my quarterly health insurance bill yesterday. What a surprise -- my premium jumped by 10%. Again. Unfortunately, my wages from my multiple part-time jobs have not jumped 10%. They continue to not keep up with the increases in my premium. They are, in fact, stagnant ( Read more... )

This quiz was published by John Hawkins a few days ago ( Read more... )