The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Emptying My Brain Pan
Burt Prelutsky
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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Hilly not master of her own domain - Buzzfeed: “Republican candidate [Carly Fiorina] has faced an onslaught of questions in media interviews about her failure to register the domain name for CarlyFiorina.org. Type HillyClinton.net into your browser right now, though, and you’ll be redirected to Fiorina’s website. The person listed as the site’s administrator did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BuzzFeed News, and a spokesperson for Fiorina said they had nothing to do with the URL trolling. But the Republican’s campaign was quick to point to the dueling stunts as evidence of media bias. According to an adviser, Fiorina has answered ‘well over 200 on-the-record questions’ this week, and in virtually every interview she was asked about CarlyFiorina.org. … ‘Of course, since Mrs. Clinton has only taken seven questions since April 12,’ [Sarah Isgur-Flores said,] ‘[T]hey probably won’t have a chance to ask her about it anytime soon.’” -Fox News
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THE BUYERS WERE IN DE-NILE
BBC: “Scientists say they have exposed a scandal at the heart of Ancient Egypt's animal mummy industry. A scanning project at Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester has revealed that about a third of the bundles of cloth are empty inside. … More than 800 mummies, ranging from cats and birds to crocodiles, have so far been analysed using X-rays and CT scans. About a third of those scanned contain complete animals, which have been remarkably well preserved. Another third contain partial remains - but the rest have been empty. … Unlike human mummies, which were created to preserve the body for the afterlife, animal mummies were a religious offering. … Scientists estimate that up [to] 70 million animals may have been mummified by the Egyptians.” -Fox News
BBC: “Scientists say they have exposed a scandal at the heart of Ancient Egypt's animal mummy industry. A scanning project at Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester has revealed that about a third of the bundles of cloth are empty inside. … More than 800 mummies, ranging from cats and birds to crocodiles, have so far been analysed using X-rays and CT scans. About a third of those scanned contain complete animals, which have been remarkably well preserved. Another third contain partial remains - but the rest have been empty. … Unlike human mummies, which were created to preserve the body for the afterlife, animal mummies were a religious offering. … Scientists estimate that up [to] 70 million animals may have been mummified by the Egyptians.” -Fox News
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DHS Secretaries Warn of Increased Jihadi Threat
How's Barack nObama doing on the counterterrorism front? Not very good, according to his own DHS secretary. Jeh Johnson warned Sunday that the U.S. faces an increased threat from so-called "lone-wolf" terrorists, who he says could "strike at any moment." He added, "We're very definitely in a new environment, because of ISIL's effective use of social media, the Internet, which has the ability to reach into the homeland and possibly inspire others. Because of the use of the Internet, we could have little or no notice in advance of an independent actor attempting to strike." Tom Ridge, the first DHS secretary, agreed, saying, "The threats are much more serious and much more complicated than on Sept. 12, 2001."
But it's worth repeating what Mark Alexander wrote: "Describing Islamist assailants as 'lone wolf' actors or 'radicalized' constitutes a lethal misunderstanding of the Jihadi threat." That's because "these attacks and those to come were and will be directly tied to worldwide Jihad by way of the Qur'an, the foundational fabric linking all Islamist violence." As long as nObama continues to be more concerned about the Crusades than radical Islamic terrorism, however, this threat won't be effectively countered. -The Patriot Post
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Saudis Snub Obama Summit
What happens when a president holds a summit and no one comes? That wasn't entirely the case with Barack nObama's Middle East powwow at Camp David this week, but four of the six invited leaders declined to attend, including one particularly notable absence: New Saudi King Salman, who took power earlier this year. The New York Times reports, "Both countries insisted on Monday that the king’s absence was not a snub, even as it was hard to ignore four powerful factors that have led to rising tensions between the two nations: the administration’s pursuit of a nuclear accord with Iran, the rise of the Islamic State in the region, the regional unrest that came to be known as the Arab Spring and the transformation of world energy markets." At least two of those things could be translated as nObama mucking things up with an ally, and the Times might add nObama's Yemen "success" story to that list since the Saudis are trying to stop Iranian terrorist proxies there. His foolish nuclear deal with Iran even has the Saudis promising to pursue nuclear weapons themselves as a deterrent. nObama might be content with increasing Iranian hegemony in the Middle East, but the Saudis are not. And they know that as long as nObama is "leading from behind," they're on their own. -The Patriot Post
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Forget Taxes, nObama's Regulations Are Strangling the Economy
The wild creation of regulations by the nObama administration has stalled economic growth and made the nation's rulemaking the responsibility of unelected bureaucrats. Two reports released this week show the staggering extent of how debilitating these regulations are. Every year, the Competitive Enterprise Institute releases its report on the nation's "Ten Thousand Commandments". This year, Clyde Wayne Crews, the vice president for policy for CEI, reports that the regulatory burden averages out to $14,976 per American household. If America's regulations were a country, it would have the 10th largest economy, beating out India. Barack nObama has tied the country in red tape because, while 224 laws were passed in 2014, the government plastered up 3,554 regulations. Furthermore, "A problem with cost-benefit analysis is that it relies primarily on agency self-reporting. Having agencies audit their own rules is like asking students to grade their own exams. Regulators are disinclined to emphasize when a rule’s benefits do not justify its costs," CEI's study says.
These regulations make the federal deficit unmanageable, and The Wall Street Journal pins the problem of America's stalled economy on too much regulation in the system. Meanwhile, a Heritage Foundation study finds that nObama's major regulations cost Americans $80 billion a year — and there's more regs in the works, such as another redesign of the light bulb. To fix the problem, Congress needs to insist that it is the lawmaking body of the country, not nameless bureaucrats in the executive branch. -The Patriot Post
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Refusing To Be Props In Charade, Gulf Leaders’ Snub nObama
(rickwells.us) - Arab Gulf State leaders are saying no, refusing to have themselves, their names and their nations associated with and used as props in the theatrics that the nObama administration is conducting with Iran, ISIS and the entire abdication of our role as world leader... They, just as many Americans, see the true nature of the White House occupant and his agenda. They are expressing their disapproval by declining an invitation for a summit at Camp David, a serious rebuke, insult and embarrassment for nObama as well as a painful injury to his thin, narcissistic epidermal layer. General Jack Keane gives his perspective on the snub, in which four of six Gulf leaders turned down the nObama invitation, the reasons behind it and the impact it will have. http://rickwells.us/gen-keane-refusing-to-be-props-in-middle-east-charade-gulf-leaders-snub-iran-loving-obama/
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DHS Spends Millions To Defeat The Climate, Zero Fighting Terrorists
(rickwells.us) - With the federal government an unmistakable way to view the priorities placed upon particular issues is to evaluate the level of spending which they receive... Throwing money at a problem truly is viewed as a solution or at a minimum a way to claim to be addressing a problem. The budgetary commitments that the regime has made to the threat of domestic, homegrown terrorists tells us they don’t believe it’s an issue worthy of their time. While the regime mislabels patriots and conservatives, those who are against a Marxist takeover of the United States, as potential terrorists, and from their anti-American perspective that may indeed by how they view those who respect their nation and its Constitution, those who truly seek to do us harm are being ignored. http://rickwells.us/rep-mike-mccaul-dhs-spends-millions-to-defeat-the-climate-zero-fighting-homegrown-terrorists/
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U.S. Military Forced To Bow To Sharia Law
(gopthedailydose.com) - Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson warned that “lone wolf” terrorists, such as the jihadis who attacked the Mohammed Art Exhibit in Garland, Texas, could “strike at any moment.” He described this as a new and challenging security environment, but added, “we are not discouraging Americans from doing the things they do on a daily basis.”... That disclaimer might not be entirely accurate, judging by what Fox 13 has been hearing from the military community in Tampa. “Military personnel, veterans and their families at military bases like MacDill are being advised to be careful what they post online and talk about in public,” says the report. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/05/11/u-s-military-forced-to-bow-to-sharia-law-told-not-to-act-pompous-online-to-avoid-ire-of-isis-lone-wolves/
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New York’s Fracking Ban Hurting Upstate New Yorkers
(Bob Adelmann) - When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was running for reelection in 2012 he said he was concerned about the poor economy hurting residents in upstate New York, particularly those living along the state’s southern border with Pennsylvania... Residents of Broome and Bradford counties in particular could peer across the border and see residents of Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna county living better, paying less in taxes, and enjoying the economic benefits of the fracking boom. Cuomo briefly considered lifting the state’s de facto ban on fracking in those counties as a way to give their residents a chance to enjoy some of those benefits. But only briefly. http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors/item/20853-new-yorks-fracking-ban-hurting-upstate-new-yorkers?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=2b3d506d10-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-2b3d506d10-289778381
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A classy Ted Cruz vs. charlatan reporter
(David Limbaugh) - If you like arrogant, condescending, rude, insolent and patronizing Beltway journalism, you may appreciate Halperin’s performance... If you are a person of ordinary sensibilities, however, and not so intoxicated with the leftist worldview that you are incapable of dispassionately assessing the segment, you will have a different reaction. What first struck me about the interview was not so much the objectively asinine questions Halperin asked but his obvious motive and attitude in asking them. Aside from a few throwaways, all of his questions were aimed at exposing Cruz as an inauthentic Hispanic. And as insulting as that is, there is something more noteworthy about it that some are missing in all the hubbub about the interview. http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/a-classy-ted-cruz-vs-charlatan-reporter/
Video at the site.
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States paying $5M to 'gay' activists opposing marriage
(Michael F. Haverluck) - Advocates of natural marriage are finding that their tax dollars are supporting same-sex “marriage” activists, with more than 5 million state-funded dollars lining the pockets of attorneys hired to tear down marriage amendments from coast to coast... In addition to losing more and more battles waged against their freedom of conscience and religion — and seeing 37 states redefining marriage to include homosexual unions — supporters of natural marriage are paying the legal fees for homosexual activists to attack the time-honored institution. http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2015/05/12/states-paying-5m-to-gay-activists-opposing-marriage/?subscriber=1
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US Govt. Weather Consultant Predicts Low Sunspot Global Freeze
(Jeff Dunetz) - Vencore Inc. has worked closely with a number of government agencies on weather-related projects... including NASA, NOAA, Naval Meteorological and Oceanographic Command, Naval Postgraduate School and the Intelligence Community. It is now suggesting that the extreme lack of sunspot activity may be an indication of a major cooling period for the Earth. Its not just the fewer number of sunspots...its the pattern of their peaks: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/05/us-weather-consultant-predicts-low.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=159b7e8233-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-159b7e8233-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-159b7e8233-291705165
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The Clintons’ Criminal Board of Trustees
(Mathew Vadum) - At least four board members of the highly efficient cash-for-favors trading platform known as the Bill, Hilly and Chelsea Clinton Foundation have either been charged with or convicted of serious crimes, including bribery and fraud, according to an eagerly awaited blockbuster of a book... The book is Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hilly Rich, by acclaimed best-selling author Peter Schweizer. Although it only became available for sale to the public on May 5, on Sunday it was already the 15th best-selling book on Amazon.com. The New York Times calls the meticulously documented opus “the most anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle still in its infancy,” and reports that it “asserts that foreign entities who made payments to the Clinton Foundation and to Mr. Clinton through high speaking fees received favors from Mrs. Clinton’s State Department in return.” The Clintons benefited from their actions. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/the-clintons-criminal-board-of-trustees/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f7e8404097-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-f7e8404097-156509103
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(Ben Cohen) - At the end of her sweeping probe into the normalization of anti-Semitism on American campuses, Ruth Wisse lays down a double challenge... Can the United States, the world’s pre-eminent liberal democracy and the one most exceptionally hospitable to its Jewish minority, retain that exceptional status “by recognizing the threat [posed by contemporary anti-Semitism] and fighting it off?” For their part, can American Jews, by gathering their mettle, help this country’s universities “heal themselves of this most deadly pathology?” In fact, the challenge is not just national but global. What happens in America will determine whether the Jewish people can maintain a center of power and influence in the Diaspora as well as in the sovereign state of Israel. http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2015/05/will-anti-semitism-spread-from-american-universities-to-american-culture/
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(burtprelutsky.com) - In the old days, I recall my mother would occasionally have to empty the little pan under the ice box into which water would collect. With so many items winding up in my in-box, every so often I have to do a little emptying myself.
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To begin with, I thought Charles Krauthammers’s comment regarding the peddling of influence by the Clintons was well worth sharing: “If there isn’t a shred of evidence that they accepted bribes in exchange for favors, it’s because they shredded the evidence.”
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♦ The more I see of Bill and Hilly doing everything imaginable in pursuit of a few extra dollars, the more I find myself thinking of them as the Kardashians on steroids. As for Hilly’s presidential aspirations, I think that the only people who would like to see her elected more than Bill and Chelsea are America’s editorial cartoonists. With her snarky smile and her multitude of pantsuits, she is easily drawn, although some of us would prefer to see her drawn-and-quartered.
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♦ Being a liberal can’t be easy. First, you had to be embarrassed by all those University of Maryland college students trying and failing to identify a photo of Ronald Reagan. Then you got to watch Diane Sawyer trying to process Bruce Jenner’s admission that he/she is a Christian conservative. I suspect that immediately after the interview, Ms. Sawyer took to her chaise lounge with a severe case of the vapors.
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♦ Much has been made of the fact that Hollywood bubblehead Ben Affleck pulled strings to make sure nobody ever found out that one of his ancestors was a slave owner. If, God forbid, he had discovered that another had been a Republican, Ms. Sawyer would have had to shove over and make room for him.
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♦ Not to be outdone in the loony sweepstakes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on his return from vacationing in Cuba, said he admired the Castros’ handling of the media. When you’re the governor of New York, it’s not enough to want to see the Second Amendment abolished; you also have to express contempt for the First.
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♦ Before Ferguson, MO, made anti-cop riots so popular in urban black communities, what did these louts do for amusement?
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As we all noticed, in Baltimore, as in Ferguson, the thugs are given free rein to loot, burn and destroy, for at least 24 hours, even when the National Guard is standing by. We know that, under nObama, members of the military will never be called upon to fire a weapon in anger. Thanks to the wimps running our cities and states, apparently the same holds true for National Guardsmen. Our new national motto might as well be “No Matter What, No Boots on the Ground.”
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In spite of over 300 arrests in Baltimore, anyone who thinks the thugs will serve any real time for burning down neighborhood stores, thus destroying the dreams and lives of the small business owners in the community, must be puffing the magic dragon. In today’s world, villainy isn’t punished, it’s more often rewarded. Those thugs won’t even lose their welfare checks.
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♦ During the riots, we kept hearing that the Crips and the Bloods had put their turf differences aside and agreed to a truce so that they could concentrate their efforts on putting cops in the hospital or the cemetery. My question is: how is it that those criminal enterprises are still in business?
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After all, it was 45 years ago that the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act was passed. Over the decades, it has been used against organized crime to put any number of Mafia kingpins behind bars because it allows prosecutors to go after the guys who actually give the orders, not just the goombahs who carry them out.
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But when do we ever hear that the government has gone after black and Hispanic gangs? Apparently, if you want to cause mischief and get away with it, the best way to go about it these days is to join a street gang, sneak across our border or convert to Islam.
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♦ Furthermore, when I hear nObama or Mrs. Clinton explain away the Baltimore riots, I know that I am going to hear a call for more tax dollars to be tossed into the black community. When you consider how many trillions of our dollars have already been squandered on programs to assist people who show, by their contempt for education and their soaring rate of illegitimate births, that they have no real desire to break the shackles placed on them by Democrats, the notion of wasting even a single additional dollar makes me queasy.
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♦ A great many people, I among them, was delighted to see the black woman whacking her teenage son upside his head when she spotted him huddling with the Baltimore troublemakers. But before anyone elects Toya Graham “Mother of the Year,” we need to know if she’s single as a result of divorce or widowhood. Otherwise, she’s just another unmarried woman with six kids at home, which would mean she is part of the problem, not the solution.
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Still, she is far more deserving of our respect than all the other adults, including Baltimore’s mayor and city council members, who essentially stood by and made excuses for the young hooligans.
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♦ But it does serve to remind me of all the people in America, mainly strangers, who do so much to make our lives slightly more bearable, in spite of the best efforts by politicians to make them far worse.
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Those unsung heroes I have in mind are the fathers and mothers who do their best, in spite of impossible odds, to raise decent children; telephone employees who keep lines of communication open during natural disasters; the people who brave the elements to clear the roads while the snow and ice are still coming down; the life-savers who never seem more than a few minutes away when someone has a heart attack, finds himself involved in a highway collision or trapped in a burning building; and even plumbers, however much they charge, who manage to show up on Thanksgiving or Christmas, like Mighty Mouse, ready to save the day.
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So if you happen to be any of these people, I know I speak for everyone else when I say: “Take a bow. You’ve earned it.”
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♦ The more I see of Bill and Hilly doing everything imaginable in pursuit of a few extra dollars, the more I find myself thinking of them as the Kardashians on steroids. As for Hilly’s presidential aspirations, I think that the only people who would like to see her elected more than Bill and Chelsea are America’s editorial cartoonists. With her snarky smile and her multitude of pantsuits, she is easily drawn, although some of us would prefer to see her drawn-and-quartered.
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♦ Being a liberal can’t be easy. First, you had to be embarrassed by all those University of Maryland college students trying and failing to identify a photo of Ronald Reagan. Then you got to watch Diane Sawyer trying to process Bruce Jenner’s admission that he/she is a Christian conservative. I suspect that immediately after the interview, Ms. Sawyer took to her chaise lounge with a severe case of the vapors.
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♦ Much has been made of the fact that Hollywood bubblehead Ben Affleck pulled strings to make sure nobody ever found out that one of his ancestors was a slave owner. If, God forbid, he had discovered that another had been a Republican, Ms. Sawyer would have had to shove over and make room for him.
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♦ Not to be outdone in the loony sweepstakes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, on his return from vacationing in Cuba, said he admired the Castros’ handling of the media. When you’re the governor of New York, it’s not enough to want to see the Second Amendment abolished; you also have to express contempt for the First.
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♦ Before Ferguson, MO, made anti-cop riots so popular in urban black communities, what did these louts do for amusement?
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As we all noticed, in Baltimore, as in Ferguson, the thugs are given free rein to loot, burn and destroy, for at least 24 hours, even when the National Guard is standing by. We know that, under nObama, members of the military will never be called upon to fire a weapon in anger. Thanks to the wimps running our cities and states, apparently the same holds true for National Guardsmen. Our new national motto might as well be “No Matter What, No Boots on the Ground.”
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In spite of over 300 arrests in Baltimore, anyone who thinks the thugs will serve any real time for burning down neighborhood stores, thus destroying the dreams and lives of the small business owners in the community, must be puffing the magic dragon. In today’s world, villainy isn’t punished, it’s more often rewarded. Those thugs won’t even lose their welfare checks.
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♦ During the riots, we kept hearing that the Crips and the Bloods had put their turf differences aside and agreed to a truce so that they could concentrate their efforts on putting cops in the hospital or the cemetery. My question is: how is it that those criminal enterprises are still in business?
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After all, it was 45 years ago that the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act was passed. Over the decades, it has been used against organized crime to put any number of Mafia kingpins behind bars because it allows prosecutors to go after the guys who actually give the orders, not just the goombahs who carry them out.
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But when do we ever hear that the government has gone after black and Hispanic gangs? Apparently, if you want to cause mischief and get away with it, the best way to go about it these days is to join a street gang, sneak across our border or convert to Islam.
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♦ Furthermore, when I hear nObama or Mrs. Clinton explain away the Baltimore riots, I know that I am going to hear a call for more tax dollars to be tossed into the black community. When you consider how many trillions of our dollars have already been squandered on programs to assist people who show, by their contempt for education and their soaring rate of illegitimate births, that they have no real desire to break the shackles placed on them by Democrats, the notion of wasting even a single additional dollar makes me queasy.
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♦ A great many people, I among them, was delighted to see the black woman whacking her teenage son upside his head when she spotted him huddling with the Baltimore troublemakers. But before anyone elects Toya Graham “Mother of the Year,” we need to know if she’s single as a result of divorce or widowhood. Otherwise, she’s just another unmarried woman with six kids at home, which would mean she is part of the problem, not the solution.
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Still, she is far more deserving of our respect than all the other adults, including Baltimore’s mayor and city council members, who essentially stood by and made excuses for the young hooligans.
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♦ But it does serve to remind me of all the people in America, mainly strangers, who do so much to make our lives slightly more bearable, in spite of the best efforts by politicians to make them far worse.
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Those unsung heroes I have in mind are the fathers and mothers who do their best, in spite of impossible odds, to raise decent children; telephone employees who keep lines of communication open during natural disasters; the people who brave the elements to clear the roads while the snow and ice are still coming down; the life-savers who never seem more than a few minutes away when someone has a heart attack, finds himself involved in a highway collision or trapped in a burning building; and even plumbers, however much they charge, who manage to show up on Thanksgiving or Christmas, like Mighty Mouse, ready to save the day.
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So if you happen to be any of these people, I know I speak for everyone else when I say: “Take a bow. You’ve earned it.”
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