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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
Featuring:
Compromise is Not an Option
Burt Prelutsky
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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BONE OF CONTENTION: OnBAMA HITS WALKER AGAIN
Gov. Scott Walker isn’t buying President nObama’s advice that the 2016 Republican presidential contender ‘bone up” on foreign policy rather than criticize his nuclear deal with Iran. Walker, who has declared he’d undo the administration’s agreement on day one of his presidency, blasted the president’s “failed leadership” and said nObama should spend more time working with governors and members of Congress rather than attacking them.” “Whether it is cutting a bad deal with Iran, calling ISIS the JV squad, or touting Yemen as a success story, Walker said in a statement, “nObama’s lack of leadership has hurt America’s safety and standing in the world.” In what has become a toe-to-toe exchange, nObama’s latest jab delivered in an NPR interview and follows his lash out at Walker last month for signing Wisconsin’s right-to-work law. Asked why Walker seems to be getting under the president’s skin, the White House says there’s “nothing personal” going on, but acknowledges “significant policy differences between the two.”
Gov. Scott Walker isn’t buying President nObama’s advice that the 2016 Republican presidential contender ‘bone up” on foreign policy rather than criticize his nuclear deal with Iran. Walker, who has declared he’d undo the administration’s agreement on day one of his presidency, blasted the president’s “failed leadership” and said nObama should spend more time working with governors and members of Congress rather than attacking them.” “Whether it is cutting a bad deal with Iran, calling ISIS the JV squad, or touting Yemen as a success story, Walker said in a statement, “nObama’s lack of leadership has hurt America’s safety and standing in the world.” In what has become a toe-to-toe exchange, nObama’s latest jab delivered in an NPR interview and follows his lash out at Walker last month for signing Wisconsin’s right-to-work law. Asked why Walker seems to be getting under the president’s skin, the White House says there’s “nothing personal” going on, but acknowledges “significant policy differences between the two.”
-Fox News
WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
With the organized practice of faith on the rise globally in the 21st century, Christianity is predicted to remain the world’s top religion, at least for a while. The Telegraph combines a recent Pew report with click-on maps and graphs to chart the status of the world’s faiths through the year 2100. “Islam is the world's fastest growing religion but despite the increasing numbers, Christians will still outnumber Muslims in 2050…Religion, despite its decline in the West… is proliferating across the world…By 2100, Muslims will outnumber Christians globally, Pew believe….[A]bout 1 per cent more of the world’s population would be Muslim (35 per cent) than Christian (34 per cent),’ the authors wrote. According to the Pew Research Centre, the religiously unaffiliated - referring to atheists, agnostics and other people who do not identify with a religion - are declining as a share of the population.” -Fox News
With the organized practice of faith on the rise globally in the 21st century, Christianity is predicted to remain the world’s top religion, at least for a while. The Telegraph combines a recent Pew report with click-on maps and graphs to chart the status of the world’s faiths through the year 2100. “Islam is the world's fastest growing religion but despite the increasing numbers, Christians will still outnumber Muslims in 2050…Religion, despite its decline in the West… is proliferating across the world…By 2100, Muslims will outnumber Christians globally, Pew believe….[A]bout 1 per cent more of the world’s population would be Muslim (35 per cent) than Christian (34 per cent),’ the authors wrote. According to the Pew Research Centre, the religiously unaffiliated - referring to atheists, agnostics and other people who do not identify with a religion - are declining as a share of the population.” -Fox News
IN STITCHES: BOOK COMPLICATES HILLY’S LAUNCH
A new book by former White House reporter Kate Anderson Brower dishes the dirt on Bill and Hilly Clinton’s time in the White House. Appearing on “The Kelly File,” the author of “The Residence: Inside the Private World of The White House,” told Megyn Kelly, “The rumor was she threw a book at him after an argument. One of the staffers was called up to the bedroom and saw blood on the bed.” Bower shared how intense the scrutiny was of staffers and how many of the maids sided with the former first lady adding, “she had the president sleeping on the sofa.” The book chronicles how Bubba “insisted that he’d hurt himself running into the bathroom door in the middle of the night.” “But not everyone was convinced. ‘We’re pretty sure she clocked him with a book,’ one worker said. … The incident came shortly after the president’s affair with a White House intern became public knowledge … And there were at least twenty books on the bedside table … including the Bible.”
‘I love lamp’ - White House Florist Ronn Payne recalls one particularly feisty exchange in another passage, “He was coming up the service elevator … as the Clintons argued viciously with each other. … [H]e heard the first lady bellow ‘goddamn bastard!’ at the president - and then he heard someone throw a heavy object across the room,” Brower related. “The rumor among the staff was that she threw a lamp. The butlers, Payne said, were told to clean up the mess. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Mrs. Clinton made light of the story … ‘I have a pretty good arm … If I’d thrown a lamp at somebody, I think you would have known about it.’ … ‘You heard so much foul language’ in the Clinton White House, [Payne] said. …”
A new book by former White House reporter Kate Anderson Brower dishes the dirt on Bill and Hilly Clinton’s time in the White House. Appearing on “The Kelly File,” the author of “The Residence: Inside the Private World of The White House,” told Megyn Kelly, “The rumor was she threw a book at him after an argument. One of the staffers was called up to the bedroom and saw blood on the bed.” Bower shared how intense the scrutiny was of staffers and how many of the maids sided with the former first lady adding, “she had the president sleeping on the sofa.” The book chronicles how Bubba “insisted that he’d hurt himself running into the bathroom door in the middle of the night.” “But not everyone was convinced. ‘We’re pretty sure she clocked him with a book,’ one worker said. … The incident came shortly after the president’s affair with a White House intern became public knowledge … And there were at least twenty books on the bedside table … including the Bible.”
‘I love lamp’ - White House Florist Ronn Payne recalls one particularly feisty exchange in another passage, “He was coming up the service elevator … as the Clintons argued viciously with each other. … [H]e heard the first lady bellow ‘goddamn bastard!’ at the president - and then he heard someone throw a heavy object across the room,” Brower related. “The rumor among the staff was that she threw a lamp. The butlers, Payne said, were told to clean up the mess. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Mrs. Clinton made light of the story … ‘I have a pretty good arm … If I’d thrown a lamp at somebody, I think you would have known about it.’ … ‘You heard so much foul language’ in the Clinton White House, [Payne] said. …”
Yikes - From a book except provided to Politico: “One day, according to Payne, he was walking through the second-floor private kitchen when an agent walked in behind him waiting to escort Chelsea to Sidwell Friends, the private school she attended in northwest Washington. Chelsea was on the phone. ‘Oh, I’ve got to go,’ she told her friend. ‘The pigs are here.’ The agent turned ‘crimson,’ Payne recalls. ‘Ms. Clinton, I want to tell you something. My job is to stand between you, your family, and a bullet. Do you understand?’ She replied: ‘Well, that’s what my mother and father call you.’”
The man behind the curtain - Former President Bill Clinton opened up about his role in his wife’s campaign, telling Town and Country Magazine, “My role should primarily be as a backstage adviser to her until we get much, much closer to the election.” Bubba offered insight on Hilly’s approach this time around adding, “I think it’s important, and Hilly does too, that she go out there as if she’s never run for anything before and establish her connection with the voters.” -Fox News
The man behind the curtain - Former President Bill Clinton opened up about his role in his wife’s campaign, telling Town and Country Magazine, “My role should primarily be as a backstage adviser to her until we get much, much closer to the election.” Bubba offered insight on Hilly’s approach this time around adding, “I think it’s important, and Hilly does too, that she go out there as if she’s never run for anything before and establish her connection with the voters.” -Fox News
GET READY FOR THE NEXT BATTLE IN CULTURE WAR
Just as Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law offered the first litmus test of the cycle for the GOP field, the next test is another thorny social issue. AP: “Kansas on Tuesday became the first state in the country to ban a second-term abortion procedure and redefine it as ‘dismemberment’ of a fetus. Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, signed the measure in a private ceremony. The law takes effect in July and is based on a draft measure by the National Right to Life Committee.” Similar measures are near passage in Oklahoma, while others are being considered in Missouri, South Carolina and South Dakota. -Fox News
Just as Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law offered the first litmus test of the cycle for the GOP field, the next test is another thorny social issue. AP: “Kansas on Tuesday became the first state in the country to ban a second-term abortion procedure and redefine it as ‘dismemberment’ of a fetus. Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, signed the measure in a private ceremony. The law takes effect in July and is based on a draft measure by the National Right to Life Committee.” Similar measures are near passage in Oklahoma, while others are being considered in Missouri, South Carolina and South Dakota. -Fox News
IT’S A GREAT SWIMMING HOLE… EXCEPT FOR THE 400-POUND GATOR
AP: “A 400-pound alligator safely hauled out of a Southeast Texas pond has a new home at a tourist attraction that caters to gators. Gator Country preserve owner Gary Saurage said Tuesday that the 11-foot reptile joins more than 400 other alligators at the preserve in Beaumont, Texas. Saurage got the animal after a landowner in nearby Groves called about an aggressive alligator in a rural pond where children swim. Saurage went to the swampy site to rope and remove the male alligator, which he estimates is 35 to 40 years old. Saurage says the alligator is healthy and that he's happy to give the ‘majestic animal’ a new home.” -Fox News
AP: “A 400-pound alligator safely hauled out of a Southeast Texas pond has a new home at a tourist attraction that caters to gators. Gator Country preserve owner Gary Saurage said Tuesday that the 11-foot reptile joins more than 400 other alligators at the preserve in Beaumont, Texas. Saurage got the animal after a landowner in nearby Groves called about an aggressive alligator in a rural pond where children swim. Saurage went to the swampy site to rope and remove the male alligator, which he estimates is 35 to 40 years old. Saurage says the alligator is healthy and that he's happy to give the ‘majestic animal’ a new home.” -Fox News
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Saudi Arabia Passes A Fatwa Muslim Can Cannibalize And Eat His Wife
(Walid Shoebat) - You heard it correctly. A Fatwa is shared on several prominent news media in the Middle East (here, here, here, here and here) and so many more...attributed to the Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, which allows a man to cannibalize and eat his wife. But “eating the wife” is only permitted under one circumstance, in case the husband is extremely hungry. Translating the piece it says: While many object, and if in doubt that Islam permits cannibalism, read here, here, here and here. There are many more, but we did not want to ruin your appetite. Here is an actual photo of Palestinians in Ramallah eating human flesh (Jews). The photo is real and we dare anyone to refute it: http://shoebat.com/2015/04/08/the-mufti-of-saudi-arabia-passes-a-fatwa-that-a-muslim-can-cannibalize-and-eat-his-wife/
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Congress should put people first over fish
(washingtonexaminer.com) - California Gov. Jerry Brown, D, has just been forced to order unprecedented water restrictions on residents all over his state. Although the details have yet to be worked out, they will likely be expected to sacrifice time in the shower and loads of laundry and dishes, or else face fines...It is difficult for Americans on the East Coast to understand, but water is a constant worry in the American West. Even so, it doesn't often get as bad as it is now in the Golden State. California is now being hit by a true natural drought — the result of a change in Pacific weather patterns that scientists generally agree is not a result of global warming. Beginning in 2007, environmentalist lawsuits and federal regulations to protect a three-inch fish, the delta smelt, began making a dust bowl of some of the world's best farmland for cash crops like pistachios, kiwi, lettuce, olives, avocados and almonds. This was going on long before other residents were asked to sacrifice for personal use, yet now the farmers — who are not subjected to the same regime of restrictions — are being scapegoated as water-hogs. In fact, environmentalists should be recognized as the water-thieves they are, having not only taken massive quantities of water through litigation but also having removed them from anyone's use by dumping them into the ocean to save a fish. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/congress-should-put-people-first-over-fish/article/2562733?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI%20-%2004/09/15&utm_medium=email
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Muslim Terrorists Lobby 114th Congress"
(youtube.com) - YES, YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT! On Monday April 13 and Tuesday 14 there will be real live Muslim Terrorists walking around the United States Congress lobbying our elected Representatives on Muslim Brotherhood Advocacy Day in an effort to change federal law...thereby making it harder to investigate Muslim terrorists. I know, crazy stuff, but it is happening right in broad daylight! Thank Allah that we at The United West are experts at investigating Muslim Brotherhood terrorists and exposing their influence operations for all Americans to understand and properly respond. To accomplish this we are launching a five-part investigative series entitled: “Muslim Terrorists Lobby 114th Congress.” Our show today focuses on the Muslim Brotherhood sponsoring organization, United States Council of Muslim Organizations and their direct involvement with Islamic terrorism. We will reveal who these organizations and individuals are and what must be done to counter their anti-American activities. Tune in, sit back and get ready for the ride of your life! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHkEi0x3Isc
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Central American Minors Refugee/Parole Program Funds Deportees’
(Warren Mass) - As we observed in an April 2 article, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), working in coordination with the U.S. State Department (DOS), conducted a teleconference on March 31 to provide information about its Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program...The CAM program began accepting applications from “qualifying parents” in the United States for their children still living in Central America on December 1, 2014. An article about the program on the State Department’s website notes that it was set up in “El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to provide a safe, legal, and orderly alternative to the dangerous journey that some children are currently undertaking to the United States.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/20641-central-american-minors-refugee-parole-program-funds-deportees-return?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=54655d431f-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-54655d431f-289778381
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nObama Administration Plotting Adult Vaccination Mandates
(Alex Newman) - In collaboration with Big Business and special interests, the nObama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is plotting a new program to track Americans’ vaccination records...wage a massive propaganda campaign to “encourage” more inoculations, and foist more controversial vaccines on adults against their will. Federal bureaucrats and crony capitalists set to profit from the proposal claim the goal is to improve “public health,” and establishment media outlets have largely parroted that line so far. However, critics of the unconstitutional scheme, formally dubbed the “National Adult Immunization Plan” (NAIP), say the ultimate goal is to forcibly vaccinate all Americans and move toward a radical new healthcare paradigm in which medical “treatment” is delivered at gunpoint. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/20642-obama-administration-plotting-adult-vaccination-mandates?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=54655d431f-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-54655d431f-289778381
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nObama, Holder Not The First Attempt At Local Police Federalization
(rickwells.us) - The Holder/nObama push to federalize local police forces is not the first attempt to do so, although it may be the one that is ultimately successful...Thirty years ago, in 1985, author Ralph Epperson wrote in his book titled, “The Unseen Hand,” of a victory by the forces of liberty against a similar assault. The American people had repelled an attempt during the contentious seventies by Marxist agents to impose their will and central control upon local police organizations. When I happened across this passage a few nights ago, it was quite jaw-dropping. What took place back then is being replayed today under the similar guise of police abuse and the defense of civil rights by the deceptive agents of authoritarianism, nObama and Holder. http://www.rickwells.us/obama-holder-not-the-first-attempt-at-local-police-federalization-a-similar-scheme-failed-not-long-ago/
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nObama Vows He Hasn’t Given Up, Still Wants Our Guns
(rickwells.us) - The cameras and chairs were placed into a medical setting to send a message, either that guns are unhealthy or in sympathy for the never-ending proctology exam that is the nObama administration...In an obviously orchestrated anti-liberty propaganda piece conducted in the form of an interview, ABC toady Dr. Richard Besser (BSer for short) asks scripted questions of the person occupying the White House, designed to deliver a specific message. In this case, we might consider it a warning. The doctor pretending to be a press person reminds Hussein nObama of a claim made by the great law and constitutional minds at the totally unrelated Academy of Pediatrics in which they “said that gun violence is one of the greatest problems facing our children.” Dr BSer continues, “And following Sandy Hook you promised America tighter gun control. Have you given up?” http://www.rickwells.us/heartbroken-obama-vows-he-hasnt-given-up-still-wants-our-guns-another-sandy-hook-might-do-the-trick/
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Congressman Makes Move to Impeach nObama - It’s About Time!
(gopthedailydose.com) - After 7 years of numerous high crimes and misdemeanors, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives finally just made a move that could set off impeachment proceedings against Barack nObama...Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., is preparing to introduce a resolution setting forth the House’s definition of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” drawing an unmistakable line in the sand that would directly challenge nObama’s actions. This is the single most significant action taken by a Republican towards impeachment to date. The resolution introduces 11 different specific actions that fit the Constitution’s standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and several of them apply directly to nObama. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/04/09/breaking-congressman-finally-makes-move-to-impeach-barack-h-obama-its-about-time/
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Replacing The Purged Military Veterans With Foreigners
(rickwells.us) - The nObama regime is nothing if not creative in the ways they come up with to provide foreigners of every description other than Caucasian with a path into the United States. In this case, they get fast-track citizenship...The open door is one that the nObama regime created back in 2009 through the military, prior to the purge of American veterans from the ranks. There’s nothing quite like a military force composed of grateful imports of questionable loyalty to constitute the ranks of a fighting force that might be asked at some point to take offensive action against their own nation. The American citizens wouldn’t be such an objectionable target to someone from Iran or elsewhere who passed the test to get into boot camp but really deep down doesn’t care for us at all. Seeing Americans from a disdainful perspective such as that of the occupant of the White House might even assure that they are accepted. http://www.rickwells.us/finish-boot-camp-and-youre-a-citizen-replacing-the-purged-military-veterans-with-foreigners-in-the-national-interest/
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Rep. Gosar Calls for Congress to Stop nObama’s Secret Amnesty
( Alex Swoyer) - Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is circulating a letter with his colleagues that demands the immediate termination of President nObama’s Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee/Parole Program... “It is outrageous that the nObama administration would secretly administer a new amnesty program that sends empty planes to Central America for the purposes of flying illegal immigrants into the U.S. The rollout, implementation and secrecy of this unauthorized program that will provide cash assistance, medical benefits, and one-way flights from Central America to the U.S. are deeply troubling,” said Gosar. Media reports also suggest that parolees are participating in the program, including felons, and that the program’s cost is unknown to taxpayers. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/09/rep-paul-gosar-calls-for-congress-to-stop-obamas-secret-amnesty-program/
Compromise is Not an Option
(burtprelutsky.com) - I realize that there are actually some people outside John McCain’s immediate family who regard him as a statesman. They've come to that silly conclusion based on the fact that he loved adding his name to legislation proposed by the abominable likes of Russ Feingold and Ted Kennedy. He referred to it as reaching across the aisle, no doubt picturing himself as God on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, reaching down from a heavenly cloud to give life to Adam.
Unfortunately, as biologist Richard Dawkins has observed, “When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie halfway between them. It is possible one side is simply wrong.”
These days, that’s not just possible, it’s just about guaranteed, which is why people like Mitch McCon-nell and backstabber John Boehner shouldn’t even think about accommodating Democrats. It’s a poker game with marked cards, and the Republicans will not only lose their shirts, pants and underwear, but they will be written off as traitors by those who elected them.
♦ Heck, even I would like to pass myself off as open-minded by occasionally being able to agree with liberals about something, about anything. But whether the topic is the criminal justice system, affirmative action, gun control, taxes, labor unions, energy, education, the FCC, the EPA, Vladimir Putin, ISIS, Israel or Iran, they are simply wrong on every issue. As a result, the only way I could pass myself off as fair-minded would be to prove that I, too, am certifiably insane.
Or, as Barry Goldwater summed it up half a century ago: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” But even back then, the liberals were able to spin those words into something vile, as if they had been spoken by Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini.
♦ If you’ve been paying attention to world affairs recently, you will notice a great many leaders on the world stage who seem to be taunting the American voter, reminding us that we really didn’t have to settle for Barack nObama. First and foremost, there was Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Congress and showing us what a real man looks and sounds like. And in case we may have forgotten, that would be a leader who doesn’t hide behind professional liars like Jen Psaki, Marie Harf and Josh Earnest, and who doesn’t limit his interviews to late night comics, partisan hacks or the ludicrous likes of GloZell Green and her tub of Froot Loops.
But there was also President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a Muslim, confronting an assembly of Egyptian mullahs, and challenging them to speak out against the butchers whom we’re always being told have hijacked true Islam.
Even the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadtzai, on his recent visit to Washington, expressed gratitude to America for not only the sacrifices of the military, but those of the American taxpayer, on behalf of his nation. One can play the cynic and point out he was over here begging that 9,800 American soldiers be left in Afghanistan to help him ward off the Taliban. But nobody in public life is as cynical as Barack nObama, and I have never heard him sound the slightest bit sincere when praising the military and, God knows, he has never thanked the millions of us he has saddled with an additional eight trillion dollars of debt.
♦ Speaking of liars, do you think by this time that Susan Rice tosses and turns at night, wondering what she’ll next be required to lie about. First, she took one for the team by going out on five Sunday morning news shows to lie about a video being the cause of the Benghazi massacre. Then she had to choke back the bile and insist that Bowe Bergdahl had “served with honor and distinction” in Afghanistan. What’s next for poor Susie? Will she be called upon to assure Michelle nObama that the new dress doesn’t make her butt look big?
♦ In other news, Rep. Aaron Schock has been forced to resign from Congress over a series of financial misdeeds. I was not the least bit surprised once I discovered that Schock, a Republican from Illinois, was given to posing bare chested for photos in order to show off his six-pack abs. Back when Anthony Weiner first got into trouble and I discovered that he also had photogenic abs, I immediately knew the bum was guilty of something disgustingly tacky.
Politicians are a scurvy bunch at the best of times, but when you come across those who look like they’d be at home on the covers of gay magazines, you know they’ve been spending way too much time in the House gym and probably in the House showers.
Please write this down so you don’t forget it: Politicians are supposed to look like Charles Rangel or Charles Schumer and never like Charles Atlas.
♦ Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for – the results of the latest Prelutsky Poll, which asked you to name your favorite and least favorite radio talk show host.
There were a few surprises. Perhaps the biggest one was how many people are hosting these shows. In all, there were 26 favorites and 29 least favorites. Of the 26, 14 received only a single vote; of the 29, 18 received just the one vote. So if you happened to mention any of those 32, I can assure you I wrote their name down, but I was the only person besides you who did. I suspect those were hosts who lacked the notoriety that goes with national syndication.
The resounding favorite of the 292 voters was Rush Limbaugh, with 98 votes. He was followed by Mark Levin, 60; Dennis Prager, 36; Mark Steyn, 16; Michael Savage, 16; and Laura Ingraham, 14. Those who received four votes were Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Lars Larsen, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Andrew Wilkow.
The lead for the least favorite host went back and forth between Sean Hannity and Michael Savage, but in the end Hannity edged out Savage 66-58. Alan Colmes came in third with 22 votes; followed by Glenn Beck, 20; Mark Levin, 18; Rush Limbaugh, 14; Mike Gallagher, 10; Bill Handel, 8; Hugh Hewitt, 6; Laura Ingraham and Dennis Miller, three each.
♦ Recently, in my constant pursuit of the truth about charities, I urged dog lovers to forget about ever donating to the Humane Society of the United States, which is so corrupt, the Justice Department should be pursuing an indictment, and probably would be if Eric Holder weren’t otherwise occupied waging war on America’s police departments.
I suggested that donations should be sent to Paws and Stripes, which trains service dogs for our injured veterans. Another deserving group is the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind.
♦ Finally, I had so much fun mimicking “Dear Abby” in a recent article that it occurred to me I could do it on a regular basis if my readers would ask me leading questions. So if you care to take part, send your question to me at BurtPrelutsky@aol.com. Just alert me by typing “Dear Burt” in the subject line, and let me know if you wish to be identified by name if I use your question or if you prefer to remain anonymous and have me refer to you as Puzzled in Pennsylvania or Anxious in Alaska, the way Abigail Van Buren handled it for all those years.
Final note: You needn’t limit your queries to politics. There is, after all, no subject about which I lack an opinion, no matter how misguided it may be.
Unfortunately, as biologist Richard Dawkins has observed, “When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie halfway between them. It is possible one side is simply wrong.”
These days, that’s not just possible, it’s just about guaranteed, which is why people like Mitch McCon-nell and backstabber John Boehner shouldn’t even think about accommodating Democrats. It’s a poker game with marked cards, and the Republicans will not only lose their shirts, pants and underwear, but they will be written off as traitors by those who elected them.
♦ Heck, even I would like to pass myself off as open-minded by occasionally being able to agree with liberals about something, about anything. But whether the topic is the criminal justice system, affirmative action, gun control, taxes, labor unions, energy, education, the FCC, the EPA, Vladimir Putin, ISIS, Israel or Iran, they are simply wrong on every issue. As a result, the only way I could pass myself off as fair-minded would be to prove that I, too, am certifiably insane.
Or, as Barry Goldwater summed it up half a century ago: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” But even back then, the liberals were able to spin those words into something vile, as if they had been spoken by Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini.
♦ If you’ve been paying attention to world affairs recently, you will notice a great many leaders on the world stage who seem to be taunting the American voter, reminding us that we really didn’t have to settle for Barack nObama. First and foremost, there was Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Congress and showing us what a real man looks and sounds like. And in case we may have forgotten, that would be a leader who doesn’t hide behind professional liars like Jen Psaki, Marie Harf and Josh Earnest, and who doesn’t limit his interviews to late night comics, partisan hacks or the ludicrous likes of GloZell Green and her tub of Froot Loops.
But there was also President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a Muslim, confronting an assembly of Egyptian mullahs, and challenging them to speak out against the butchers whom we’re always being told have hijacked true Islam.
Even the president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadtzai, on his recent visit to Washington, expressed gratitude to America for not only the sacrifices of the military, but those of the American taxpayer, on behalf of his nation. One can play the cynic and point out he was over here begging that 9,800 American soldiers be left in Afghanistan to help him ward off the Taliban. But nobody in public life is as cynical as Barack nObama, and I have never heard him sound the slightest bit sincere when praising the military and, God knows, he has never thanked the millions of us he has saddled with an additional eight trillion dollars of debt.
♦ Speaking of liars, do you think by this time that Susan Rice tosses and turns at night, wondering what she’ll next be required to lie about. First, she took one for the team by going out on five Sunday morning news shows to lie about a video being the cause of the Benghazi massacre. Then she had to choke back the bile and insist that Bowe Bergdahl had “served with honor and distinction” in Afghanistan. What’s next for poor Susie? Will she be called upon to assure Michelle nObama that the new dress doesn’t make her butt look big?
♦ In other news, Rep. Aaron Schock has been forced to resign from Congress over a series of financial misdeeds. I was not the least bit surprised once I discovered that Schock, a Republican from Illinois, was given to posing bare chested for photos in order to show off his six-pack abs. Back when Anthony Weiner first got into trouble and I discovered that he also had photogenic abs, I immediately knew the bum was guilty of something disgustingly tacky.
Politicians are a scurvy bunch at the best of times, but when you come across those who look like they’d be at home on the covers of gay magazines, you know they’ve been spending way too much time in the House gym and probably in the House showers.
Please write this down so you don’t forget it: Politicians are supposed to look like Charles Rangel or Charles Schumer and never like Charles Atlas.
♦ Finally, the moment you’ve all been waiting for – the results of the latest Prelutsky Poll, which asked you to name your favorite and least favorite radio talk show host.
There were a few surprises. Perhaps the biggest one was how many people are hosting these shows. In all, there were 26 favorites and 29 least favorites. Of the 26, 14 received only a single vote; of the 29, 18 received just the one vote. So if you happened to mention any of those 32, I can assure you I wrote their name down, but I was the only person besides you who did. I suspect those were hosts who lacked the notoriety that goes with national syndication.
The resounding favorite of the 292 voters was Rush Limbaugh, with 98 votes. He was followed by Mark Levin, 60; Dennis Prager, 36; Mark Steyn, 16; Michael Savage, 16; and Laura Ingraham, 14. Those who received four votes were Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Lars Larsen, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt and Andrew Wilkow.
The lead for the least favorite host went back and forth between Sean Hannity and Michael Savage, but in the end Hannity edged out Savage 66-58. Alan Colmes came in third with 22 votes; followed by Glenn Beck, 20; Mark Levin, 18; Rush Limbaugh, 14; Mike Gallagher, 10; Bill Handel, 8; Hugh Hewitt, 6; Laura Ingraham and Dennis Miller, three each.
♦ Recently, in my constant pursuit of the truth about charities, I urged dog lovers to forget about ever donating to the Humane Society of the United States, which is so corrupt, the Justice Department should be pursuing an indictment, and probably would be if Eric Holder weren’t otherwise occupied waging war on America’s police departments.
I suggested that donations should be sent to Paws and Stripes, which trains service dogs for our injured veterans. Another deserving group is the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind.
♦ Finally, I had so much fun mimicking “Dear Abby” in a recent article that it occurred to me I could do it on a regular basis if my readers would ask me leading questions. So if you care to take part, send your question to me at BurtPrelutsky@aol.com. Just alert me by typing “Dear Burt” in the subject line, and let me know if you wish to be identified by name if I use your question or if you prefer to remain anonymous and have me refer to you as Puzzled in Pennsylvania or Anxious in Alaska, the way Abigail Van Buren handled it for all those years.
Final note: You needn’t limit your queries to politics. There is, after all, no subject about which I lack an opinion, no matter how misguided it may be.
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