Author: Danny Lemieux

I’ve been mulling some of the comments left by our Leftwing alphabet soup posters in times gone bye-bye: the outright hostility of the Left to religion in the name of “science” (never mind that some of the world’s greatest scientists were religious people).   I am a scientist by training.

Blame the parents…so says these very passionate Brits in this short video commenatry. Key takeaway, “the government took away our power to control our own children”. Right on! http://www.mrctv.org/videos/london-riot-reactions-and-debate-clapham (h/t No Pasaran) All fingers should be pointing at the Liberal /Left. They have a lot to answer for, not the

So, what’s wrong with profits?   I propose that much of the uncivil discourse currently taking place in our country distills down to fundamental misunderstandings of, combined with mean streaks of envy toward, profits.   I just love the incongruity of the Left hammering profit-making corporations while bewailing the fact

The Wall Street Journal, having reluctantly arrived at the same conclusions that we Bookwormroom groupies had already formulated, feels that Keynesianism has been totally, totally discredited by recent events “The economies of Europe and the United States have arrived at the moment when they no longer have any conceivable hope of

Had an interesting discussion with my spouse-who-is-much-smarter-than-me this morning. A scientist turned teacher, she always has great insights into how and what our youth are thinking (or not).   We were discussing how so many kids in our neighborhood were encouraged to go to school to learn music, theater, physical

I know of several people of considerable net worth who have already left the U.S. to settle elsewhere. I know others who have opted out of the workforce altogether to retire on what they have, knowing that their futures look grim. This morning, I listened to the founder and former

The Irish love good humor. Democrats, not necessarily. That’s probably why Alicia Colon felt a need to contribute this expose of O’bama’s brilliant sense of humor to an Irish paper (the Irish Examiner). http://www.irishexaminerusa.com/mt/2011/07/19/the_unbelievable_brilliance_of.hml [h/t James Taranto’s “Best of the Web” in the Wall Street Journal) Here’s a teaser: “Obama’s

Here’s a bit of good news: public sector retirees in Central Falls, RI are being asked to “give back” some of their retirement benefits because…there’s no money!   http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/us/20centralfalls.html?partner=rss&emc=rss I suspect that many of those affected will have precious few other retirement benefits to fall back upon. This will hurt!

Conservatives think in terms of individuals, liberals think in terms of groups.   That is one of my key takeaways from Kevin Jackson’s autobiographical “The Big Black Lie: How I Learned The Truth About The Democrat Party“. Jackson, black conservative and founder of The Black Sphere blog, grew up in

From Canada’s National Post comes a fitting epitaph for our country’s demise:   “The real story of Reckless Endangerment is more a story of democracy corrupted than it is a story of financial fraud. It is a story of America’s great wounding of herself. And even now, with this book,

DQ asks a very good question: what is the endgame of the Left?   Our alphabet soup group tries to address another good question: why do black people so reliably vote Democrat?   Our responses were many, but they included the argument that poor people have been cultivated by big

Obama once again showed the true face of a Chicago ward boss when he dangled the threat of interrupted social security and veteran benefits checks over the heads of the American people. This is thug politics. Hopefully, however, the American people will see and understand what is being done. Personally,

With all the ongoing debate on this blog between a consensus view (97% of all readers) and a tiny minority of skeptics regarding whether the economy and unemployment are really bad (or not) and how well the Keynesian economic stimuli have worked (or not) and whether or not it is

My first inkling that something was going very wrong happened whilst I was attending a professional meeting deep in the bowels of a professional hotel. I and some other attendees were joking about how we were roaming the room, looking for active bars on our Androids and I-phones. An international

What more can be said than this? Was anyone able to spot our alphabet soup friends in the Gaza flotilla videos?   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5CsGViY5JQ&feature=player_embedded#t=181s[/youtube]   h/t Gateway Pundit