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“Why are we watching PBS?”
By Tom Quiner I ran upstairs to clean up the kitchen during a break in the Republican Convention. When I came down, my wife told me that Gwen Ifell said, “well, Republicans were able to find a black sheriff to speak who is actually conservative.” That’s it. Back to Fox News.
Read MorePBS’s Gwen Ifill doesn’t understand patriots’ rage regarding Benghazi
I turned over to PBS tonight during the Republican Convention to get a flavor of their reporting. Ms. Ifill and her panel were clueless on the significance of Benghazi…
Read MoreRepublican Party invocation
By Tom Quiner Beautiful invocation by a Catholic priest at tonight’s Republican Convention. So counter-cultural. So true. Trust Christ. Protect the poor and the aliens in our midst. The faithful in the convention hall had their heads bowed with respect, solemnity, and reverence for God. God bless America.
Read MoreTrump’s VP: Mike Pence, Christian, conservative, Republican
In Governor Mike Pence, the Republicans have at least one social, fiscal, and military conservative on the ticket.
Read More“If you’re voting for the other team, it’s not because of the economy.” Says who?
It’s the economy, stupid.
Bill Clinton got it. Barack Obama doesn’t.
In his teleprompter-free ramblings above, the president suggests you’d be a fool to vote Republican if your issue is the economy.
He bases his bluster on two key data points:
Read MoreTrump moves past political incorrectness into political stupidity
The Mohammad Ali of politics
There’s this guy who is on television all the time.
He has a ‘uge ego.
He has a big mouth.
He denigrates his adversaries.
He’s rich.
He’s been married a bunch of times.
He’s cheated on his wives.
He is famous and well-known.
I’m describing two men, actually…
Read MoreWEIRD: Republican-run states are more solvent than Democrat-run states. Go figure.
Patriotism and the Obama legacy
After 7 years of Obama rule, American’s belief in America has taken a shocking hit. Pew surveyed Americans in 2011 and asked if they think ‘America stands above other nations.’ In 2011, 52% of Republicans said yes compared to just 33% of Democrats, as you can see in the graph above.
By 2014, the numbers dropped to just 37% for Republicans and 25% for Democrats…
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