My friends, I was very, very wrong and for that, I am terribly sorry. I said that I believed that the entire Benghazi, Libya debacle was over-hyped by the Republicans; and I still believe that, to a point. However, there are many things that have come up since then, which I simply cannot defend. They are: The IRS …
A voice is silenced, a keyboard and voice goes black. We bloggers; left and right, are the 6′th estate, which rail against the corporate media and against tyrannical Governments —- no matter which side politically that they happen to be on and where those Governments happen to be in the World of ours. Our battle is not with …
It appears that Alvin Lee finally made it home. Alvin Lee, the guitarist and singer of Ten Years After, has died. A statement posted on his official website read: “With great sadness we have to announce that Alvin unexpectedly passed away early this morning after unforseen complications following a routine surgical procedure. “We have lost …
Sad News, even if the man was a sworn communist: CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President , the fiery populist who declared a socialist revolution in Venezuela, crusaded against U.S. influence and championed a leftist revival across Latin America, died Tuesday at age 58 after a nearly two-year bout with cancer. Vice President Nicolas Maduro, surrounded …
I wanted to take a step back from politics for a second and give you all some bad news. For the last few weeks, we have had some tragic events happen around this household. My Father’s youngest Sister and her husband of many, many years, have both passed away, within 12 days of one another. …
Remembering a special dog. Barney Bush 2000-2013 – May he rest in peace. More Barney pics here. The official statement from the President Bush: Laura and I are sad to announce that our Scottish Terrier, Barney, has passed away. The little fellow had been suffering from lymphoma and after twelve and a half years …
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Video: The Story via the New York Times: Edward I. Koch, the master showman of City Hall, who parlayed shrewd political instincts and plenty of chutzpah into three tumultuous terms as mayor of New York with all the tenacity, zest and combativeness that personified his city of golden dreams, died Friday morning at age …
Los Angeles (CNN) — Aaron Swartz, an Internet savant who at a young age shaped the online era by co-developing RSS and Reddit and later became a digital activist, has committed suicide, a relative told CNN Saturday. He was 26 years old. A prodigy, Swartz was behind some of the Internet’s iconic moments, soaring to …
This is for the children, that we lost. I’ll be back tomorrow.
I will not lie to my readers, Jazz is really not my thing. I am a rock and roller. However, I always show mad respect to the great ones in music. Jazz is an American thing, and we invented it, and people overseas wanted to sound like us. This was back, when America was a …
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I just recently lost a family member and I got permission from her daughter Sandy to post this tribute. Arlene, as we called her,was my Grandfather’s Brother’s Daughter. This would be on my Mother’s side of the family. She was born on August 30, 1946 and passed away on October 8, 2012. She was one …
Some sad news to report on a Sunday. NBC News Politics: Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the Republican-turned-Democrat who played a key role in many Supreme Court nominations, has died. He was 82. His son Shanin Specter says his father died Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia, from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. …
John Derbyshire at VDare Remembers him: I never met Rushton, but I read his book about 12 years ago, and it seemed like the work of a conscientious researcher. There are 29 pages of references ─ well over 700, the majority to scholarly journals. If Rushton left one big idea behind, it was surely the Rule of Three. …
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So sad to get news like this: Two people were killed and 12 others injured Sunday morning when a van carrying youth from Cedar Grove Baptist Church in Maryville, Tenn., collided head-on with an SUV while returning from a weekend retreat in Gatlinburg. The driver of the van, Jeff Trussell, and teenager Courteney Kaliszewski were …
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I remember seeing this news breaking early this morning, before I finally drifted off to sleep. I remember thinking to myself, “oh crap…” and thinking, here we go again, another situation in the middle east. At first, I heard it was over a lamely produced Movie trailer, which was produced by someone claiming to be a Israeli …
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