The lard is telling ol’ Herman to run for Front Man, it seems: Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain says that God told him to run for president, National Journal reports. “I prayed and prayed and prayed,” Cain told about 100 members of the Georgia Young Republicans in Atlanta on Saturday. “I’m a man...
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Hold onto your mortgage, Batman. Or, maybe not: Fifty to Seventy-Five Percent. That’s how much home prices will slide before this is all over. Here’s the latest evidence that what we’re looking at is not just some short-term real estate cycle: Of the 55-million families with mortgages, 10.4-million of them “are sliding toward failure...
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Check this out: In the wake of the Department of Homeland Security announcing its propaganda partnership with hotels to recruit citizen spies, a loyal reader alerted us that the Sheraton Ferncroft Hotel in Danvers, Massachusetts is blocking access to alternative news websites using a content filter service called IBAHN. The firsthand account of which...
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Another object lesson our sparkly ol’ Clover is sure to discount or ignore… even as such incidents are increasing and becoming all-too-common knowledge: YAKIMA – A jury today convicted Spokane Police Officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. of needlessly beating Otto Zehm and then lying about it to cover up his actions. The verdict comes...
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Again… Enjoy: 1955 By Fred Reed With the regularity of sunrise, editorials raise alarums over the sorry state of schooling in America, wondering year after year why students are so abysmally ignorant. Why the puzzlement? The reasons is that Americans don’t want education. They would rather have polio. If they saw education coming down...
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