Category Archives: Useful Idiots

Belgrade, 1926

Eric Ambler’s A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS (1939) is one of my favorite novels, for the noir atmospherics alone. (That I number more than one fellow as casually amoral and exotic as Dmitrios Makropoulos among my professional colleagues just adds relish … Continue reading

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They can keep her

She’ll fit right in. Nancy Pelosi leads House delegation to Cuba House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi traveled with a congressional congregation to Cuba on Tuesday. The trip is the first official House delegation to travel to the island nation since … Continue reading

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It is not what they say

It is what they do As Parents Get More Choice, San Francisco Schools Resegregate Amazingly, since they cannot protest themselves, no protests will take place.

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In a little less than two years

We will find out if President Obama can do for the internet what he did for the recovery of the American Economy. On Thursday, [FCC head, Tom] Wheeler is expected to present to the commission a set of rules that … Continue reading

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Your tax dollars at work

One of the local National Public Radio station, KPLU, is advertizing vacations to Cuba they’ve been organizing. Join KPLU On An 8-Night Adventure To Cuba KPLU is going to Cuba this winter! Our previous tour was so popular we are … Continue reading

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It is right there

What with the leftists campaigning on the the House of Representatives possibly filing article of impeachment against the President, as well as using the current lawsuit vote as a club to abuse their Republican counterparts, you’d think they had never … Continue reading

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Outrage is their only option

The supporters of Initiative 594 here in Washington State, which would make background checks for private firearm sales mandatory, are losing in the polls. So they do what every other leftist group does when they are losing: They discover something … Continue reading

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Familiarity is not the reason

A couple polls came out recently each showing that 40 or more percent of the Millennial Generation have a favorable view of socialism. Numerous bloggers and wonks took this info to mean that they had been brainwashed to believe that … Continue reading

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Take Caution

You may laugh so hard you have a stroke This is the headline, byline, photo and caption to US News’ story about the opening of legal marijuana stores in Seattle They get their legal weed, and are now bitching about … Continue reading

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These guys are such slave drivers

It is no wonder that the left hates them. McDonald’s suspends work in Crimea McDonald’s has suspended work at its in Crimea for “manufacturing reasons”, the U.S. fast food chain said on Friday, the second international company to cease operations … Continue reading

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