Condi said that her dad was a Republican because the Democrat party (Birmingham, AL) refused to register him to vote. The Republicans registered him though. [I’ve never really understood why blacks eschew the party of Lincoln in favor of the party of, well, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd and the like.]
Posts from ‘August, 2011’
Nasty, Racist Guns!
Everybody knows that guns cause gun violence (we’re told this constantly), but are you aware just how racist guns are? The firearm homicide rate is 18 per 100,000 members of the population for blacks, and 1.5 per 100,000 for whites, according to the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. For reasons only guns know, guns […]
A Mere Trifle
It’s astonishing how very little the Congress have and are addressing the actual budget problem. The latest proposal would cut just shy of a trillion dollars. Ooooh, saving almost a *trillion* dollars (over ten years). It’s a trifling amount in the overall FedGov budget (estimated at 3.82 trillion in 2011). A savings of 100 billion […]