Learning the lessons of fighting evil with Sam, Dean and Nick.

Join the debate at PJ Lifestyle about which show is better at teaching how to fight evil, Grimm or Supernatural.

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/04/07/3-reasons-why-supernatural-surpasses-grimm-in-educating-us-about-fighting-evil/

More articles published at PJ Lifestyles

Life is pretty good when articles getting published sneaks up on me. Here are some more pieces published at PJ Lifestyle.

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/02/10/kick-nbc-while-its-down-use-the-williams-scandal-to-set-the-terms-of-the-2016-debates/

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/02/04/the-sad-truth-about-the-vaccine-debates-superstitious-roots/

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/01/29/objection-why-tvs-the-good-wife-isnt-good-law/

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/01/27/generation-w-raising-a-nation-of-wusses/

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/01/08/we-must-reform-our-religion/

Where the hell is the Asisi story?

So in the aftermath of Islamic terror attacks, a common and reasonable question is why the greater Muslim community does not speak out against the barbarity.

I'd ask that question today in light of the Paris terror attack except Egypt's President el-Sisi had already given a full-throated call for reform in the Islamic world. 

The media response was crickets and that has to raise the question of why did this go I to the memory hole?

We have the president of a major Muslim nation, a man who deposed the Muslim Brotherhood, calling for reform. This is no small thing to do. This is the nation where the Muslim Brotherhood assassinated Anwar Sadat for making peace with Israel. Mr. el-Sisi already has a target on his back for wresting power from the fanatics. This may well be his declaration of war. 

It's understandable that neither President Obama nor Secretary of State John Kerry made a big deal of this. It was the holidays. Adjusting their schedules would risk missed tee times and could force them to reschedule meetings on how best to attack the new GOP Congress. These are busy men with priorities.

On the other hand, the news cycle for the holidays is slow. You would think the benchwarmers left to read the headlines in these doldrums might look to make a name for themselves by focusing on a major story. 

Plus they would get warm fuzzy bonus points for an opportunity to tsk, tsk "Islamaphobia." 

That's a win-win. 

Yet nothing. 

One has to wonder it it is because el-Sisi was not the Obama-backed horse. In a brilliant display of his "smart diplomacy," which can only honestly be described as soft pedaling America's enemies while betraying our allies, Obama backed the Muslim Brotherhood government. 

Fortunately for the West, the Egyptian people did otherwise. 

So now, highlighting the man who rejected Obamaism now calling for reform in Islam is more than simply a major news story and potential game changer. 

It's a potential embarrassment to the Obama administration. 

We can't have that. 

The Truth of Mario Cuomo

In his 1984 speech, Mario Cuomo slipped and gave up the dirty little secret of how the Left disdains American values. Find out how in my latest article for PJ Lifestyles.

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2015/01/06/how-mario-cuomo-honestly-defined-zero-sum-liberalism/

Playing to Win

Judd Gregg and Mitch McConnell have each weighed in on what the GOP need to do to succeed with its new majority.

Leader McConnell says the GOP needs to "not be scary," language reminiscent of George W. Bush's declaration that he was a "compassionate conservative." I guess that made Republicans who disagreed with him lacking in compassion. 

More ominously, Sen. Gregg cautions against using budget reconciliation to roll over Democrats much as they did the GOP in the passage of Obamacare. He points out at the backlash that has followed the Democrats since the passage of their signature legislation. 

Unfortunately, it appears the GOP leadership makes the same mistake too many Republican Presidential candidates have made: playing Marquis of Queensbury rules against folks reading from the Saul Alinsky play book. 

Sen. Gregg makes the mistake of thinking that the Onamacare backlash was the process. The real reason is the utter debacle that the law has created in terms of insurance coverage and costs. 

I mean Harvard professors are complaining about it. 

If the law worked, does Sen. Gregg honestly think the public would care about the niceties of its passage?

The real issue is that conservative policies work and Leftist policies fail. The problem conservatives have is a lack of effective spokespeople for their policies and a popular culture whose elites are warriors for the Left. 

So based on this reality, put on the brass knuckles and fight for our policies. 

Be prepared for the tsk-tsk of editorial boards. 

Be prepared to made fun of on SNL.  

Be prepared not to get invited to parties. 

The horror!

Sen. Gregg misses the basic point of Obamacare. It passed. It's law. Obama won and he won because he fought. He didn't bother with niceties. He didn't care about collegiality. 

He cared about winning because, as he's stated, he believes in fundamentally transforming America. 

Our leaders damn well better have that same level to commitment to protecting us from that transformation. 

We are at a gut check moment. This is a time for the GOP leadership to decide I it actually stands for conservative principles or not. 

That means not taking options off the table. That's the kind of amateur hour diplomacy for which we mock Obama in his handling of foreign affairs. 

Then our genius leaders apply the same tactics at home?

Unfortunately, the milquetoast GOP leadership has, with the last budget bill, given us one trillion reasons to think their main concern about Democrats having a better position at the trough instead of the fact that there's so much slop flowing in the first place. 

It's time to fight. 

It's time to win. 

Happy New Year!

As a new year dawns, it's time to reflect on the changes that come. It's a time of resolution, of self-improvement.

So I ask to you, what is your favorite New Year's resolution, whether or not you kept it or not?

Scalise and Republican Stones

As everyone knows, Republican Steve Scalise may have spoken to a group of white nationalists over a decade ago I say may because it looks like he didn't actually attend the conference, despite the pillorying he has undergone in the media.

Whether GOP leadership knew of the weakness of the report or not, the fact that Boehner et. al did not throw Scalise to the wolves is refreshing.

Normally in this sort of situation, the word "racism" is thrown around and a near religious ritual ensues. Fellow Republicans denounce the potential offender and begin ritual self-flagellation. More often than not, the potential offender is let to die on the ice flow.

Perhaps victory has emboldened our leadership. Perhaps they recognize that the calls of racism, having been so overused in the past, have lost their sting.

What needs to happen now is the punch back.

Scalise spoke stupidly once?

Point out that Al Sharpton - the man who's calls of "white interloper" got a man killed - has been to the White House 61 times under President Obama's reign.

Point out that the "Democratic Conscience of the Senate"- Robert Byrd - was actually in the Klan.

Point out that the "Democratic Lion of the Senate" - Ted Kennedy - let a woman drown.

Point out that Charles Rangel is still serving despite his tax evasion.

In other words, when asked about Scalise, pull an Obama and refuse to answer the mediua's question.
Answer the basic GOP question: What the hell are these Democrats doing?

Another piece with PJ Lifestyles

See my latest article here.

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2014/12/30/how-racial-opportunists-ruin-real-chances-for-police-reforms/

Just published in PJ Media

So folks, I had my first paying gig as writer with PJ Media with their PJ Lifestyles section. The topic was Sony and their surrender to the North Korean hackers.

Check out this article and many other fines articles on PJ Media and PJ Lifestyles.

http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2014/12/22/the-villains-you-choose/

Bullying and hashtag activism, from a bullied kid's

So famous people take to Twitter with signs telling terrorists to give back girls they kidnapped. That's supposed to solve something.

People want "bully free zones" and this is supposed to solve something.

And when a politician gives sensible advice, people's heads explode.

That advice: "Grow some balls."

A damn fine sentiment.

I was fat growing up, unathletic and bookish. I wore glasses. In short, I was bully bait.

And I got the standard advice of going to adults and rising above things.

Learning how to kick someone's ass would have helped more. And living in an environment where we don't have "zero tolerance" policies where kids who get picked on get just as punished for hitting their abusers as an aggressor would. Kids need to grow balls because we have, in an effort to avoid lawsuits, told them they cannot defend themselves.

And then comes hashtag activism. Shaming people who sell girls into slavery or burn little boys alive?

It's feel good, do nothingism on the same level of bully free or gun free zones. It makes those of a certain sensibility feel good and leaves blood on the ground.

Want to feel really good? Teach the victims how to fight back.

Grow balls.

Cliven Bundy is a racist jackass but government is still too powertful

Keep saying that statement to yourselves. Because, apparently Cliven Bundy is a racist jackass.

Funny how the media is willing to make headlines out of this revelation. But the sight of government agents slaughtering his cattle to make room for a turtle that the government kills at its convenience was treated as a sideshow.

Priorities.

 Also funny how the media is cool with a President who pals around with terrorist Bill Ayers. Or has a pastor whose sermons include such gems as "God Damn America" and the U.S. government using the AIDS epidemic as genocide against blacks.

This man got elected president. And his own press secretary admits John Stewart was his hardest interview.

So condemn Bundy, as he should be.

But don't pretend it tars pro freedom individuals until you are willing to hold the President responsible for the racist views of his supporters/

A Little Bit of Rebellion

Kevin Williamson has a pretty positive take on the people staring down the Federal government in the Bundy Ranch dispute. His money line: "But not all dissidents are content to submit to what we, in the Age of Obama, still insist on quaintly calling “the rule of law.” Bundy's critics would point out that he failed to follow the rule of law.

The more fundamentally frightening thing is that the rule of law is quaint. President Obama has unilaterally abrogated his own signature law dozens of times when his policies became politically inexpedient. In order to woo Hispanics, he stops deportations and enacts his own DREAM Act by fiat. It would be like Judge Dredd ("He is the law) except for the fact Judge Dredd wouldn't have tried to appoint Mumia's lawyer to the Justice Department. 

And when the Executive ignores the law, what happens? A supine Congress does nothing, thinking of the day their guy will get his turn at being emperor. The Supreme Court says citizens have no standing to challenge such political questions; unless, of course, the political question at hand gives the Court a chance to slap down quarrelsome traditional Christians. 

The President brags of having a phone and pen in ignoring the people. He should not be surprised when we brag about our guns.

Captain America and conservatism - SPOILER ALERT -

Armond White at National Review Online condemns the Captain America: Winter Soldier as a piece of leftist propaganda. 

He is wrong. Or at least I hope he is.

If not, then conservatism means supporting an unaccountable government that declares itself to have the power to target anyone who might be a threat and eliminate them without even a by your leave. This would, as the movie indicates, include Americans on American soil.

The basic plot of the movie is that SHIELD, a security agency dedicated to protecting the world from superhuman and extraterrestrial threats, is preparing to launch a trio of massive hover ships with the capability of killing anyone on earth. The idea is to kill threats before they happen.

Hmmm. Who does this sound like? Perhaps a certain President who has claimed this power for himself, as well as getting to ignore pesky things like Congress when it's convenient.

He has a pen. And a phone. And, if Armond White had his way, he would also have three unassailable airships which could target any critic, foreign or domestic.

This is not the notion of the imperial president. It is a god king. Perhaps White sees 300: Rise of an Empire as Heyek on celluloid?

According to White more proof of the film's subversive leanings is that "[a]s Rogers [Captain America] takes his daily superhuman run around the basin of Washington, D.C., he introduces himself to another morning runner (and us) with the repeated look-out phrase 'On your left . . .'"

Yes. That is definitive.

The movie also sins in that Nick Fury and the heroes upload SHIELD's secrets to the internet.

Again, conservatism means that when a government agency acts illegally, and is also thoroughly infiltrated by fascist's bent on world domination, we keep it quiet.

What a monster the IRS Inspector General must have been to reveal targeting of conservatives!

The security state caucus of the conservative movement is a terrifying thing. Rather than a small, accountable government, they want Leviathan on steroids.

It is not conservatism.

Fort Hood shooting

My prayers go out to the victims at Fort Hood and their families tonight.

Foaming mouth brigade on both sides, shut your damn mouths and let people grieve tonight.

Free speech upheld

The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Unfortunately, a significant portion of our political class, from both sides of the aisle, thing "shall make no law" means that the right to petition the government means doing so within limits the government - conveniently - sets.

The Supreme Court says differently.  Today aggregate spending limits got struck down, just as the Court expanded freedom in Citizens United.

I can get liberals freaking out about this. They think choice only counts when it comes to killing babies or other "rights" found using a magic decoder ring to interpret the Constitution. When it comes to the actual text of the document - say gun rights or political speech - then all of a sudden, the magic decoder ring reads text away.

But then again, John McCain is also sad that the Court read the First Amendment to read what the First Amendment says, rather than what he wants it so say.  Still, this shouldn't be surprising.  He also thinks the Constitution should tell the damn kids to stay off the lawn.

It's not surprising that those in political power want theirs and don't want others to make a statement. It's not surprising that those in political power abdicate their Constitutional responsibility and ptotect our rights. George W. Bush jumped the shark for me when he signed McCain-Feingold while acknowledging it was unconstitutional.

What was refreshing was a decision restoring our liberty. While it saddens me that our Republic has degenerated to the point that we must be thankful for the crumbs of freedom we get from the Court, I'll take what we can get for now.

House of Cards

So I've just started watching House of Cards and aside from how good the show is, I'm amazed by something.

They're Democrats.

Lying, whoring, coke snorting Democrats.

I don't know Kevin Spacey's politics but his business sense is keen. Liberals will watch the show because the main characters are fight for liberal causes. So there's no need to take gratuitous swipes at the half of the country who voted for Romney.

Of course, there's still time for some evil Republicans to make an appearance.

Walking Dead Season Finale - Spoiler Alert

So aside from the fact that Rick's last line at the end was pretty damn cheesy, the episode was great. I think everyone knew Terminus was something bad but the question is how bad now.

I'm thinking cannibals.

Your thoughts?

Remember when global warming was supposed to create worse storm seasons?

But only it didn't?

Now wait for the high priests of the Church of Warming to declare new omens after casting the bones, err, consulting the climate models. After all, when warming is blamed for snow in winter, there can be no disproving the True Faith!

Walking its own path

The Walking Dead is not following the storyline of the comic.

I didn't know that but I like it. That's the kind of thing that makes me, a fan of the show and avid reader, want to read the graphic novels.

I think this kind of synergy is great for authors. In creating an alternate universe, the show is entertaining for the reader and avoids becoming boring. The same holds true for the viewers who picks up the graphic novels.

And let's be honest. It has to be a blast for the author.

This is an interesting age for content creators. Cheap publishing and video distribution allows content creators to get their works out in as many ways as they can think of, in as many paths as they can think of.

Coming soon: director's cuts of books.

Two states are allowed to ask voters for ID when voting.

That this is news should be troubling. We ask for ID to cash checks, get on airplanes or use credit cards.

Is voting any less important than these activities? Is the accurate outcome of an election any less important than credit card fraud?

The people who want us to believe that are either liars or fools.

In no way should they hold power.