GOP tidal wave coming in November?

A new Gallup poll gives Republicans a 10 point lead in a generic ballot. While such polls don’t necessarily reflect how people will actually vote, it’s the biggest GOP edge in 68 years of generic ballot polls.

Quick, tell me, what does the Democratic Party stand for? That’s a toughie to answer, isn’t it? And [...]

Univ of Calif retirement funds have $20 billion shortfall

This on top of the gaping shortfalls of other California public pension funds.

IMO, investigations are needed into all the public pension funds to determine if this was just negligence and idiocy – or something else.

The roots of organized crime in Mexico is the State

Borderland Beat

Organized crime in Mexico today did not form itself in a vacuum, its structure originates from the police and security forces of the Mexican State. That is why this drug war is so bloody and extends to all levels of government and society.

The last 30 years of the PRI regime incubated [...]

The Avocado Declaration. Peter Camejo

Peter Camejo wrote The Avocado Declaration in 2004. It details how a prime function of the Democratic Party is to siphon real protest into itself, where it then renders it inert. This has been going on for quite some time. After all, the Democratic Party backstabbed the Populist Party in the 1890′s.

I [...]

Hurricane Earl to slam into New England

Hurricane Earl track NOAA

Hurricane Earl, while not a Nor’easter, is acting like one. In the northern hemisphere storms move counter-clockwise. Thus, the most dangerous area of a big ocean storm is the northeast quandrant. That’s because the wind and waves are moving in the same direction. So, when a Nor’easter slams into the [...]

S.F.’s lone gun store reopens amidst protest

The High Bridge Arms gun store in San Francisco is re-opening after a brief closure. Some in the neighborhood are protesting this saying they’d “rather have something the neighborhood could enjoy – a laundry or wine and cheese shop.”

However the Pink Pistols, a local gay gun rights group, would beg to differ.

God, [...]

On Glenn Beck’s popularity

Maybe the left should be asking why Glenn Beck’s message resonates with many rather than trying to bash him as extremist and his followers as unwashed trailer trash. (Hint: If you call someone a racist yahoo, chances are you won’t convert him to your side.)

Clearly what Glenn Beck says strikes a chord with many [...]

British SWP says Churchill was real enemy not Hitler

In the world of the lunatic Marxist left (apologies to non-deranged Marxists out there), anything that capitalists and imperialists do must automatically be opposed, regardless of fact or even reality.

We have a fine new example of this. The British Socialist Workers Party has proclaimed that Hitler was not planning to invade Britain and [...]

Coast Guard installing wind power in Maine

The Coast Guard wants to implement “net zero” homes at their base at Southwest Harbor, Maine. Wind power is just the first step.

In addition, next door to the wind-powered duplex, the Coast Guard has installed a pellet boiler that provides heat and domestic hot water for the two homes in that unit, replacing [...]

Huge oil field found in Canada and US

The newly discovered Bakken Shale oil field could prove to be one of the largest in the world.