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I'm attaching a link to an article describing a report by Megan Kelly of Fox News.  This appeared in early December after the shooting at Planned Parenthood by a nut job. http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2015/12/01/megyn-kelly-takes-left-media-task-double-standard-placing-blame Ms. Kelly points to a number of instances where an event occurs that is viewed as "right wing" violence and the Media reacts harshly.  But when "left wing" violence occurs, the Media circles to find other reasons why the event occurred - absolving the "left wing" from blame or blaming the victim themselves. The event in San Bernardino occurred after this broadcast by Ms. Kelly but I remember commenters on CNN immediately suggesting the event was another act of "right wing"violence before any facts were known about the shooters.  Credit goes to a couple of the moderators who, when one of their experts said something like that, were quick to point o...

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" My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government." - Barack Obama in a memo to the heads of Departments and Agencies. So what happened? Professor Jason Ross Arnold of Virginia Commonwealth in an article that appeared in the Washington Post said Taken together, [the Administration's] record suggests progress toward transparency, but it arguably falls short of what Obama promised. An interesting statement as his article provided a paragraph or so in support and then offered a lengthy list of examples suggesting just the opposite.   That article can be found here.   http://tinyurl.com/qbog7sl Nevertheless, many in the media - including the liberal media - would disagree with Professor Arnold's position. The New York Times pointed out at least 20 investigations across the government that have been slowed, stymied or sometimes closed because of a long-simmering dispute between the Obama administration and its own w...

Best wishes to you and yours for a very Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year. Here is a wonderful parable that Paul Harvey broadcast years ago that is very meaningful at Christmas time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddai8rkXWRs

Lost internet service for a while there. Back East, it would have been called a tropical storm and would have been named.  Out here its just a bit of high wind - 68 miles per hour - and it knocked out the wireless internet receiver. Have a lot of ideas and thoughts piled up.  I'll try to post them over the next few days.

The corporate tax rates in the U.S. are the highest in the industrial world.  The tax code is ridiculously complex.  Business decisions are made half based on what is good for the business and half based on what enables the company to reduce taxes. Is it any wonder that companies are leaving America to evade taxes?  Companies are using a process called inversion to transform themselves from American companies to foreign companies, moving to countries with lower taxes. The ones that aren't leaving are investing money made off shore into plants and R&D in other countries because taxes on bringing the money back to the US make that impossible. So what do you do to stop this exodus?  Well Hilary Clinton's idea is to make the tax code worse not better.  She wants to create a penalty to deter companies from leaving the US. Gee whiz.  Great idea.  Don't take the simple approach of making the tax code simpler and lowering taxes.  Oh no, keep...

It is interesting to read this comment by Ben Carson. Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson says he's faced more discrimination because he's a black conservative than because of his race alone. http://tinyurl.com/p3gm5xu Having seen similar remarks made about Justice Thomas and other conservative African Americans, Ben Carson put words to what others have experienced. If Ben Carson were elected President, could we label all the hosts on MSNBC as racists if they disagree with his views?

Today Donald Trump suggested that all Muslim immigration be halted.  Here is what I think is wrong about that: 1. Blatant bias against a single religion and the people who believe is not appropriate anywhere and especially not in the United States, given our history. 2. It is not the correct approach to the current problem.  We do have a problem with immigration controls.  It's clear that we have no control of our borders - both under the current Administration and under the Bush Administration to be honest - and the process of vetting people entering the country, both newcomers and our citizens who leave and come back, does not identify folks like the ones in California that just committed acts of terror.  But the solution is not banning Muslims.  We are seeing people from a variety of backgrounds going to the Middle East and getting converted.  Even that statement - that are borders are porous and we don't vet well - is an oversimplif...