The Monkees / "You Just May Be The One"

Tracking Take 19 plus remastered original mix

Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

Remembering Nixon Rescuing Israel

Remembering when Richard Nixon showed again that he was something his persecutors had nothing for - a real leader - in rescuing Israel in 1973.

The Fraud Of Anti-Police Protests

Police brutality is a hoax, and more and more studies shows it to be a hoax.

The Education Hackerama Unhinged

The American Federation of Teachers erupts by accusing choice advocates of (nonexistent) racism based on a fraudulent piece by the Center for American Progress. Meanwhile Betsy DeVos attacked college leftism at Harvard.

The Continuing Disinformation Campaign By Obama

The top four intelligence and security officials of the Obama Administration were responsible for disasters in Libya and elsewhere and they continue to lie about it.

The Lie Of Muslim Progressivism

Not that "progressivism" was ever progressive, but Islamic versions of progressivism are even bigger frauds. It further shows in Canada where a motion condemning "Islamophobia" was pushed by a Muslim immigrant MP, Izra Khalid, who deceived everyone by pushing a law that entitles a terrorist religion.

Sam Cunningham And The Myth Of Social Activism

From Pro Football Hall Of Famer John Hannah's autobiography -

"(In 1970) we were playing our opener against USC, which had lost only two games in three seasons, and we had our work cut out for us.  USC was tough, very physical, and extremely fast.  USC also had a roster of black players who were unbelieveable.  One of those guys was a running back, Sam "Bam" Cunningham......The game at Legion Field was Cunningham's first road trip and his first game starting on the varsity.

"The Trojans killed us.  I mean they absolutely mauled the Tide and handed us a 42-21 trouncing that was downright embarrassing.   They racked up 559 total yards - 300 more than Bama - and Cunningham ran for 135 of those and scored two touchdowns in only twelve carries.  It was humiliating beyond words.  It became rumored that Coach Bryant had invited Sam into the Tide locker room and paraded him around saying, 'Boys, this is what a real football player looks like.'  Cunningham disputed that quote as an exaggeration, but he did tell me that Coach Bryant actually sought him out after the game and congratulated him on his performance.  That rout of Bama by USC in 1970 became infamously known as the 'Cunningham Game.'  Many said that sixty minutes on the field did more to integrate Alabama than Martin Luther King Jr. did in twenty years."

Bear Bryant had wanted to integrate his team before, but he needed everyone to see for themselves why it was a good idea, and once they did, they accepted it.   Says Hannah, "He knew you couldn't intimidate players into playing better." 


Which illustrates a far larger social point - the complete futility of social activism.   Baseball had long integrated by that 1970 point - and did so for baseball reasons.   Football likewise integrated for football reasons - the New England Patriots which would draft Hannah and Cunningham in 1973 from their opening season (1960) of existence went out to sign black players such as Ron Burton (the team's first ever draft pick), Larry Garron, and Jim Lee "Earthquake" Hunt.   Later they would sign such players as Houston Antwine and Jim Nance, and they weren't alone in the fledgling American Football League to scour to sign black players. 

The idiotic Anthem protest movement in sports is another manifestation of the longstanding disease of social activism, and it at heart is based on a myth - "speaking for those without a voice," as Duron Harmon of the Patriots has put it.   The problem is activism is merely advocacy of favoritism, of picking the winners instead of letting the chips fall where they fall.   To put it bluntly, these "people without a voice," did they in fact do anything to warrant even having a voice?

It's a myth long demolished by real history - of the failure of Prohibition Paul Johnson writes (in MODERN TIMES: THE WORLD FROM THE TWENTIES TO THE NINETIES) -

The truth is Prohibition was a clumsy and half-hearted piece of social engineering, designed to produce a homogenization of a mixed community by law.  It did not of course involve the enormous cruelty of Lenin's social engineering in Russia, or Mussolini's feeble imitation of it in Italy, but in its own way it inflicted the same damage to social morals and the civilized cohesion of the community.  The tragedy is that it was quite unnecessary.  America's entrepreneurial market system was itself an effective homogenizer, binding together and adjudicating between ethnic and racial groups without regard to color or national origins.  The way in which the enormous German and Polish immigrations, for instance, had been absorbed within an Anglo-Saxon framework was astounding: the market had done it.

And market forces were doing likewise in the years before the Johnson Administration's failed "War On Poverty," with black incomes rising both overall and competitively with white incomes; in the 1958-63 period black participation in professional and other high-level careers rose faster than in the five years after passage of the Civil Rights Act, noted by for instance Daniel P. Moynihan in 1965 in his "Employment, Income, and the Ordeal of the Negro Family" essay in DAEDALUS that year.

Not only in the US was this occurring; South Africa's "peculiar system of ethnic socialism" as Paul Johnson puts it received preposterous levels of Intellectual anger - among the more risible examples was a 1986 Paul McCartney song attacking Margaret Thatcher over South African apartheid.  What made the famed musician's anger all the more foolish is at that time market forces were creating the very integration he and other celebrities and Intellectuals claimed to be demanding, while Big Government intervention - as always happens no matter what the nation - dragged down economic power (a fact explaining why F.W. DeKlerk ended it starting in 1989). 

"Even in South Africa under apartheid.......employers often defied or evaded the apartheid laws to hire more blacks, and in higher positions, than permitted by the government.   The South African housing market produced such racial integration, in defiance of the law, that whites were in some cases a minority in areas legally designated as being for whites only.

So notes Thomas Sowell in THE VISION OF THE ANOINTED in demonstrating yet another case where market forces create real social change, without The Anointed picking the winners.    The reality thus is as it has always been - activism solves nothing that market forces and natural evolution don't deal with better. 

So player Anthem protests are grandstanding acts not based on any credible understanding of reality - it's a fact players - enabled far too long in this endeavor - and everyone else need to understand.


Postscript - noteworthy was the "activism" of NY Giants great YA Tittle in 1968.

Finally A Reexamination Of Title IX

First this repost from August 29:

Title IX has created a phony victim culture that is finally being addressed.

UPDATE: Title IX's fraud courts get their comeuppance.

Anthem Protest Nonsense Mars Week Three And Leads To Four

Buffalo's upset of the surging Broncos was one upset from Week Three that cast looking ahead to Week Four in a different light


The third week of the 2017 season was marred by the petulance of NFL players and the larger league when Donald Trump attacked anthem protests.  Players escalated their anthem protest and were loudly booed for it, while Roger Goodell enabled them via a stupid message of support that managed to get everything wrong - again.

Army - and Afgahnistan - vet Alejandro Villanueva showed up his Pittsburgh Steelers teammates and coach by standing for the Anthem; he was sold out by being forced to apologize for it later, while Ben Roethlisberger reportedly also opposed sitting for the Anthem


And the anthem protest fiasco is exposing the complete lack of credibility of rationalization for it - for the players are not courageous or standing for social justice, they are simply being petulant children; when they try to justify their stand, such as Duron Harmon's claim that "we're standing for those who have no voice," they merely prove how foolish they are - there is no "those who have no voice, and it never occurs to them that "those who have no voice" may not have earned a voice.    "Nor do the protesting players come across as informed......but as mostly unable to explain to their fans precisely why and how they are mistreated or why America is a flawed society...." Of course they can't because their premise is factually untrue - especially given how these players worked and worked to reach this level, thus again validating the meritocracy of football - and fans (and Trump) know it - they also know the First Amendment does NOT give them the right to protest.   So players come across not as courageous but as gutless.

And also grossly enabled - that they took umbrage at Trump's comments shows no one is challenging them to justify their stand - least of all coaches or team owners who foolishly supported their players instead of demanding they offer some credible information.   Indeed the players' outrage smacked of self-entitlement - that they feel the rules of freedom of speech (it's a two-way street) don't apply to them.   Thomas Sowell calls is differential exemption, and it's the classic swerve of Intellectuals - "I the NFL player have the right to protest the anthem and you do not have the right to call me out for it."


Such gutlessness is enabled by media (and typical of its approach to social issues) but fan booing will not go away. All of it mars enjoyment of a thrilling game whose third week was genuinely spectacular. We allude to Week Three as we make our picks for Week Four -

The ethic of celebrating touchdowns got exposed for the farce it is in the Steelers-Bears game as John Fox may finally be getting things turned around there


Bears over Packers  -  This is a tricky pick given Aaron Rodgers did the rarest of things - for only the fifth time in his career he led a comeback from down two or more scores in beating a surprisingly strong Bengals squad.   The Bears, though, we think are not the same old Bears despite being in the bottom third in scoring and points allowed so far.    The Packers are midpack on both sides of the ball and blew a 17-point lead last time they met the Bears, so we can expect a tight one here, especially after the last Thursday Night game played in the league.


Saints over Dolphins in London -  The Saints got on the board by hammering the Panthers and they fly to London to face a Dolphins team embarrassed by the NY Jets.   The Dolphins are sixth in fewest points allowed but they face a Saints offense eleventh in scoring while Jay Cutler has become the Jay Cutler we all knew in scoring just 25 points in two games.    Except more of the same here.

Patriots over Panthers - It's a rematch of 2013's controversial Monday Night affair; the difference here is Tom Brady is even better than he was then and Cam Newton is not.    The big semi-shocker is the Panthers are second in fewest points allowed taking on the second-highest scoring offense in the league.    This is a battle of strength against strength and also weakness - the Panthers have scored just 45 points, 29th in the league - against weakness - the Patriots have gagged up 95 points, dead last in the league.   While the Panthers were getting smacked around Tom Brady was leading the 51st comeback of his career as he is now integrating more people into the passing game, notably Brandin Cooks after a slow start and unheralded Jacob Hollister.  While Hollister's stats aren't close to gaudy (and in the process giving his defense something to work with and thus improve), he is beginning to establish something with the other tight end Dwayne Allen struggling badly to fit in the offense.   The run game meanwhile was in Witness Protection against Houston - who played like the Oilers of old - and is only at 3.5 yards per carry. 

The question turned out to be - who would score more lustily, Peter Hermann and Mariska Hargitay with each other or the Jaguars against the Ravens?   If you took a tie and the points in this bet, you won


Jaguars over NY Jets -  Tom Coughlin will never have to buy groceries again in Jacksonville, for he is authoring a genuine turnaround for the Jaguars - presently fourth on both sides of the ball.   Blake Bortles looked like Mark Brunell at 64% completion and four touchdowns, reminiscent of Jacksonville's ten-game winning streak over the Ravens in the Jaguars' first five seasons in the league.   Joe Flacco meanwhile looks more and more like a fading quarterback at three touchdowns and four INTs all season, and it makes the Ravens' fifth-ranked defense (and 2-1 record) look illusory.   The Jags march into Coughlin's old house in The Meadowlands as the Jets spoiled Suck For Sam by hammering the Dolphins.    We still don't think the Jets are any good and have too much incentive to try to get Sam Darnold for 2018.

One of the faces of Anthem protest is the Seahawks and phony victim Michael Bennett - despite four touchdowns by Russell Wilson the Seahawks got put down by the Titans


Texans over Titans -  This game may become a shootout of the 38-35 model as the first of the semi-annual Houston Oilers Bowls hits The Stadium Next To The Astrodome.   The Titans come in off 469 rushing yards - a whopping 156 per game at 5.1 YPC - so far and after a bit of a slow start Marcus Mariota has reached 60% completion and had a better completion percentage (20 of 32 for 225) than Wilson (29 of 49, but he hit 373 yards and edged Mariota in passer rating 110.3 to Mariota's 104.3).  They get a Texans defense that showed its toughness in Foxboro but which is 26th in points allowed.   The Texans offense got going with Deshaun Watson's breakout game and he faces Tennessee's defense ranked 21st in points.   So expect fireworks.


Ravens over Steelers -  Both teams come in off bitter losses and with mediocre or worse offenses between Baltimore's 23rd in scoring to Pittsburgh's sixteenth.   Neither run defense is all that good - both in the 4.3 YPC allowed category.  The edge may be in turnover differential (plus-four for the Ravens to plus-one for the Steelers) but then the flaw there is the Ravens have more turnovers involved (six given up to ten snatched) than the Steelers. 



Bengals over Browns - The Bengals at least finally started scoring after changing offensive coordinators and they get an annual patsy to practice against, but the Browns have shown some genuine fight.

Call it heartbreak, call it karma for a team 7-52 against quality foes in the Matthew Stafford era, but the Lions won't get over the Falcons game for awhile and look to take it out on the Vikings


Lions over Vikings - Will Bradford or won't Bradford?  Sam Bradford had to sit out the last two games so we think Case Keenum will start here.   The Lions have won the last two meetings in this rivalry and are seventh in points to 12th for the Vikings. 

The early candidate for Game Of The Year was the Rams' 41-39 thriller of an escape at the 49ers; it illustrated these aren't the Same Old Rams


Rams over Cowboys -   The Cowboys got a rude awakening in getting hammered by the Broncos and responded with a tough win over the Cardinals highlighted by an explosive game by receiver Brice Butler.   The Cowboys now host a Rams team leading the league in scoring but 27th in points allowed.   The revelation is Jared Goff, at 70% completion and five touchdowns to one pick.  The Cowboys' dependence on Zeke Elliott is now hurting them, so they need to get more out of the passing game.   This game like others promises a lot more offense.

Brice Butler may be emerging as a go-to receiver for the Cowboys


Falcons over Bills - Buffalo's big win over the Broncos makes this a tougher matchup than it might have looked earlier this season, especially with the Bills leading the league in fewest points allowed (just twelve per game so far).   Offensively the Bills haven't lit it up while the Falcons are 16th in points allowed and fifth in scoring, with no sign of a Superbowl hangover.

The Eagles won a brass-knuckle affair against the NY Giants and now get a Chargers team that we're not sure won't play in San Diego by December


Eagles over Chargers -  What you need to know - the league looks to shift the Chargers back to San Diego.   Expect this to happen - even this year, though unlikely for so short a timetable - as the 0-3 Chargers host an Eagles team beginning to build momentum.


49ers over Cardinals -   Something amazing happened - the 49ers despite losing had a coming-out party in the game against the Rams.   Kyle Shanahan and Brian Hoyer travel to Arizona with the Cardinals looking schizophrenic with a big loss to the Lions followed by the grinder of a win over the Colts followed by a tough loss to the Cowboys. 



Buccaneers over NY Giants -  The Giants showed fight in the loss to the Eagles and go to a Bucs team that got punched out by Case Keenum.   Despite that embarrassment the Bucs are in the top-15 on both sides of the ball.  Jameis Winston's three picks against the Vikes, though, is something that needs to be cleaned up. 


Raiders over Broncos - The wild and wooly AFC West just got wilder with both teams coming off ugly losses, the Broncos vaunted defense perhaps now exposed as somewhat illusory despite still being 15th in points allowed, and the Raiders now no longer the juggernaut advertised entering the season.   Trevor Siemian's explosion against the Cowboys revealed that kind of potential, but as was the case last season the issue becomes sustaining it. 

Seahawks over Colts -   The Seahawks haven't shown much if any weakness at home as they host a Colts team that finally broke through, albeit against a Browns squad that staged a tough comeback.   With the Colts hinting Andrew Luck will begin practicing before this game there's clearly desperation to get him back on the field.   The Seahawks meanwhile come home having finally established some offensive power, so Russell Wilson should have the edge here.


Chiefs over Redskins -   Andy Reid opened his Chiefs career by sweeping the NFC East and he looks to do it again.  The Redskins come in, though, with momentum and confidence after upending the Raiders; even with that Reid has owned the NFC East for a long time.  


The league needs some growing up to do as it hits Week Four.

London Attacks Market Forces

By attacking Uber, London once again shows that government regulation solves nothing.

The Case For Kurdistan

Kurdistan proved itself a boon to everyone in the last two-plus decades of war.

At Loudon Bell And Santos Strike While Hebert Stews

New Hampshire Motor Speedway hosts a bittersweet weekend in September 2017.   Twenty years ago the track received a second Winston Cup weekend; now that weekend will run one last time before going to Las Vegas Motor Speedway.   For September 2018 NASCAR's Modified Tour will headline a 250-lap affair, easily the longest Mod Tour race in memory.

For 2017 the Mods were part of a three-way Saturday affair that opened with the Truck Series.   Christopher Bell dominated after some dicing with teammate Noah Gragson and Ryan Truex, and his career arc keeps growing the more he wins.


The most anticipated race was the FW Webb 100 for the Modifieds.   This race took on greater bittersweetness as its unofficial name became the Ted Christopher Memorial.   Christopher became the most controversial racer in New England annals - one incident among many tells the story - in 1998 at Stafford Motor Speedway he spun out rival Chris Jones; with previous encounters leading up to this Jones raced all the way around and plowed over Chrostopher's nose while under caution - and perhaps the most accomplished, winning over 100 SK Modified races at Stafford Motor Speedway alone to go with ten wins in NASCAR's Busch North series and 42 in the Modified Tour.    Wherever he raced in New England, people felt his impact, and controversy would follow him - not least with the criminal dealings of his longtime former team owner Jimmy Galante. 

For 2017's FW Webb 100 the racing centered on Doug Coby and Patrick Emerling, but in the final thirty laps a restart led to a massive fight for the lead among some eight drivers, including the largely-unnoticed Bobby Santos.   Santos stormed into the lead but another late yellow appeared to doom him.   He got away on the restart in the final five laps, then his pursuers made a colossal mistake - fighting each other instead of pushing past Santos, and thus leaving him long gone to he win.  


And yet the Mod Tour 100 wasn't even the big story of the day.   That went to the American-Canadian Tour's regular 50-lapper to close out Saturday's affair.   ACT does not count caution laps for its New Hampshire races and reverts to last completed lap when yellows fly - and both rules blew up in ACT's face as crashes galore required four restarts to complete one lap, and then there were two red flags - one when the leaders plowed into the sand barrels abutting the pit wall off Four - to where it took two hours to complete eighteen laps.

The worst part was the fight for the lead was excellent throughout - ACT's cars run bias-ply tires and are the kind of long-snout lean raked roofline aerocoupe bodies NASCAR once ran and really should be running again - and the one burned when the race was ended short of halfway was ACT regular Jimmy Hebert, a Williamstown, VT native, 26 years of age, who won twice in ACT in 2013 and has thirteen additional top-fives and twenty-one additional top-tens in sixty career ACT starts.   He battled budding New England racing legend Woody Pitkat and before the race was stopped he fell behind Pitkat in Turn One by two lengths then threw the car four lengths deeper through Two into the lead - and the pass was nullified by another yellow.  

Pitkat certainly drove a superb race, and this was one of those times where the fact someone had to lose was nothing to be proud of.    The crowd was angry over the entire caution fiasco, and this affair requires ACT to reconsider two monumentally flawed rule approaches for its New Hampshire races.


Bittersweet thus never tasted so bitter - or sweet.

When A Muslim Ban Isn't A Muslim Ban

Donald Trump's "Muslim ban" is mere accoluntability toward terrorists and their enablers. In Burma Muslim ban is actual genocide.

Identity Politics Keep Hating

Identity politics have never been anything but hatred of people who are more successful - and it's getting worse. It's also shown in the new film about Billie Jean King vs. Bobby Riggs.

Hillary Keeps Happening

Hillary Milhous Clinton keeps on lying. She's part of the Democratic culture blaming Soviet interference in the election, except such tales are old hat - and never true.

Hidden Debt Hidden Deficits

First this repost from May 15:

A new study has been released showing how state and local governments are $1.91 to $3.4 trillion in debt due to unfunded pensions.

Additional information comes here.

See also the progressive bankruptcy of Connecticut and Illinois.    

Update September 20: There is also this September video Entitlements And The Bidget.

Leftism Loving Confederacy

Remember when the Left embraced the Confederacy?  They loved Johnny Reb in music and movies.

Bread And Butter Lead To Week Three

The Patriots scrapped the gameplan used against the Chiefs and went back to their bread-and-butter offense and crushed the New Orleans Saints


Week Two saw an expected improvement in crispness of play outside of the Thursday Night affair between Houston and Cincinnati; there is also a subplot with the CFL banning padded full-contact practices, a change the NFL is monitoring but which won't be reciprocated.    With two weeks of the season, some trends are beginning to develop.    We look back at Week Two while making our picks for Week Three -


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Rams over 49ers - 

The Rams' schedule turned out to be easier than some expected, though the Redskins looked like a good team again.   The Rams now fly to San Francisco with the Niners staring at 0-2.   They've shown some more fight than expected, notably at Seattle.



Patriots over Texans -New England diversified the offense by diversifying who got the touches, this after putting in an Edelman offense against the Chiefs.   The Patriots also dodged a bullet with injuries to Gronkowski, Chris Hogan, and newcomer Philip Dorsett, who caught three passes for 68 yards and thus showed he can flesh out a depleted receiving corps that didn't get a catch until 13:09 into the first quarter at New Orleans.    Injury to Donta Hightower appears to be such that if he misses any time at all it will be two games tops.    They get their first look at DeShaun Watson, who has thrown 47 passes with 27 completions for a measely five yards per completion (and a passer rating of 68.15) and whose primary attack so far is rushing the ball (seven rushes for 83 yards and a score).  The Texans defense is long hyped but got exposed by the Jaguars and the Patriots are not running the Edelman offense anymore, which makes the odds higher for the struggling Texans.  J.J. Watt in particular always seems to go into Witness Protection when he plays the Patriots.

The Raiders are the Raiders again, and the NY Jets are.......well, in full Suck For Sam - that's Darnold - mode, right down to a punt bouncing off Kalif Raymond's helmet and becoming a Raiders scoring drive just past the two-minute warning

Dolphins over NY Jets -   22nd in points while gagging up four turnovers, dead last in points allowed - Suck For Sam is the operating phrase of the 2017 NY Jets, with about the only positive being Jermaine Kearse.   The Dolphins meanwhile come in after an escape job at the Chargers, their first win in their first game of the season

The Titans overcame a costly INT by Mariota to crush the Jaguars, who crashed back to earth after their eye-opening win over the Texans

Ravens over Jaguars at London -The NFL hits London for the first time this year and the Ravens come in at 2-0 while the Jaguars got a rude awakening in a 37-16 home embarrassment by the Titans.   While the Jags are averaging 22 points scored the Ravens are averaging that same number with ten points per game allowed, plus ten turnovers forced.   Joe Flacco hasn't put up monster numbers but he has three touchdowns to two INTs, slightly better than Blake Bortles and his seeming regression back to subpar quarterbacking status.



Buccaneers over Vikings - The Vikings have quarterback problems again with Sam Bradford forced to sit out the loss at Pittsburgh; if he can't go against the Bucs we're not sure the Vikings can generate enough for a win.   Their former NFC Central division mates are in the top-seven in points and points allowed, albeit having only played one game.   Forcing four turnovers (one Robert McClain's pick six) vs the Bears certainly does make a case for the Bucs defense while Jameis Winston played a solid game.



Eagles over NY Giants - The Eagles fell again to their former coach and didn't force a turnover after forcing four by the Redskins, but they get a Giants team that is 0-2, last in offense and whose star - Odell Beckham Jr. - is transmuting more into a marketing-oriented locker room cancer instead of a playmaker.   The irony is Eli Manning has completed some 75% of his passes so far vs. Carson Wentz' 60%, yet is playing so poorly his own head coach has publicly called him out - not a sign of a season that is developing in a positive manner.



Panthers over Saints - It's now obvious the Saints have no future with Sean Payton and perhaps not with Drew Brees; 0-2 advertises at best another 7-9 season as they take on the offensively-mediocre Panthers who with that are leading the league in fewest points allowed.   Cam Newton's career-long struggles with completion percentage continue at 59 and change and just two touchdowns.  Rookie Christian McCaffrey has shown spark but not much sustained production at an abysmal 2.7 yards per carry; he's done more damage catching the ball (nine catches for 72 yards).   Given the recent history of this series with back-to-back 41-38 games twice in the last three meetings we could see points scored here.


Colts over Browns -  This is a risky pick because the Colts have collapsed (they're in the bottom six in the league on both sides of the ball) to where 8-8 may be beyond their reach.   The Browns aren't in better shape though after DeShone Kizer went out with a migrane against the Ravens.   Right now we think Jacoby Brissett will start for the Colts; he constituted an improvement over Scott Tolzien and the Colts were competitive to the end against the Cardinals, but this one could get ugly.

The Falcons are now 2-0 while Aaron Rodgers fell to 1-1

Falcons over Lions -  The Falcons are showing no sign of a Superbowl collapse hangover, though they could have done somewhat better putting away their game against the perennially-overrated Packers.   This week they travel to Detroit, 2-0 after a comeback against the Cards and manhandling the Giants.   Look for the points to pile up here.

Trevor Siemian exploded the Broncos offense like we haven't seen it since Peyton Manning's 2013 season 

Broncos over Bills -  The Bills didn't get it done against an offensively-mediocre Panthers team, this week they face a Broncos team that is fourth in points scored after averaging 20th in points scored the previous two seasons.   Trevor Siemian didn't put up this kind of explosiveness before (four touchdowns, 68% completion, a 116 passer rating) and such a surge of offense spells trouble for opponents down the road, provided he sustains it - something he didn't quite do in his quasi-rookie season. 


Steelers over Bears -  How much longer will the Mike Glennon experiment continue?  At this rate we don't think he'll be starter by latter-October as the Steelers come in looking for their third-straight win.

Titans over Seahawks -   The Seahawks are fifth in defense but that is somewhat illusory after a loss to the mediocre Packers and the win over the struggling 49ers, plus the Seahawks have locker room issues and have had them since Richard Sherman played his way to getting traded only to see the Seahawks unable to finish that job; Michael Bennett's self-serving character assassination of Vegas cops further displays a poisonous Seahawks locker room culture, one not conducive to winning - and something they haven't done well on the road, having lost ten (with the 2016 tie at Arizona for good measure) of their last twenty road games.  They go to Tennessee fresh off the Titans' 37-16 pasting of the Jaguars, presently ninth in scoring though Marcus Mariota's completion percentage in two games  reached 60% against the Raiders but faded to 55 and change against the Jaguars with a pick. 

Packers over Bengals - At the Falcons Aaron Rodgers lost for the 42nd time in 52 comeback attempts and the 32nd time in 36 games when he's trailed by at least two scores.  Should the Falcons finish with a winning record Rodgers will thus have lost in 36 comeback tries against a quality opponent; overall the Packers are 15th in points and 17th in points allowed.    This week Rodgers gets a Bengals team that has collapsed almost out of the box despite being seventh in fewest points allowed.

2015 breakdown of AJ McCarron

The idiotic story that some Bengals players are lobbying for the inept Colin Kaepernick instead of Dalton's backup AJ McCarron is mind-boggling, for McCarron when he had to play in 2015 showed genuine form and in particular was far better than Andy Dalton in the playoff game that season, erasing a 15-0 Steelers lead and putting the Bengals into the lead late.     



Chiefs over Chargers  -  USC outdrew the combined attendances of the Chargers and Rams in LA - this spells for all to see that the NFL made a complete mistake moving even one team to the worst sports market in the country. The Chiefs make their first trip to LA since November 10, 1991, a 27-20 win at Anaheim Stadium won on Derrick Thomas' fumble return score in the fourth.  The Chiefs come in looking like world-beaters despite being 25th in points allowed, while the Chargers are livid at back-to-back losses on missed FGAs by the rookie YoungHoe Koo, a mind-numbingly bad 25% field goal percentage.   The worst part for the Chargers is Philip Rivers has stormed to 73.6% completion (106.4 passer rating) and four touchdowns; he faces Alex Smith and his 77% completion rate (a whopping 134.1 passer rating). 

             

Raiders over Redskins - The Skins are mediocre at 1-1 and 27th in points allowed; they are getting decent play out of Kirk Cousins. At the Rams three Redskins backs erupted for 222 yards and the Skins have averaged 5.2 yards per carry so far. The Raiders come in leading the league in points, tenth in points allowed, 126.5 passer rating for Derek Carr, and are themselves averaging 5.2 YPC on the ground but are getting hit at 4.8 YPC allowed, they've also lost three of their last five road games.  Even so the Raiders look like the Raiders again where the Redskins look like the dysfunctional mess they've been since the mid-1990s.



Cardinals over Cowboys  -   An ominous development was showcased in Dallas' loss to the Broncos - when Zeke Elliott was shut down the Cowboys offense fell apart - Dak Prescott threw 50 passes with 30 completions and two touchdowns but was picked off twice; targeted sixteen times Dez Bryant had just seven catches for 59 yards and a score.    That the Cowboys are this one-dimensional - and publicly attacking each other with the story Elliott quit on the game - shakes confidence in their season going forward as they go to a Cardinals team that pulled off an unexpected win at Indianapolis. 



We thus await Week Three

Refuting Michael Bennett's Premise

Michael Bennett and other identity politicians rail against police violence against blacks.   The facts show it isn't there - and wasn't.

Remembering Ted Christopher

The shocking death of New England racing legend Ted Christopher brings to mind that he exploded through New England racing as seemingly no one else has.   This 2007 SK 100-lapper at Stafford Speedway illustrates the controversy that surrounded Christopher to go with his enormous talent and success.

ESPN's Leftism Eats It Alive

The idiocy of leftism is being proven by the collapse of ESPN and especially the kid-glove treatment of the deranged Jemele Hill.

The Campus Assault Lie

Title IX by any measure is a failure by the standards set for it; it hasn't created equality, just favoritism.   The lie of the campus sexual-assault controversy is the exaggeration of its prevalence (by female fondler in chief Joe Biden in particular) and also the reality that college student society doesn't just prosecute phony courts, it has degraded intercourse to where parties and seeking of sex for its own sake instead of for some kind of genuine relationship are more important than actual learning and maturing.    The reality of life remains to stop trivializing sex and demand actual maturity from college students.

Who Pays With Single Payer

Single payer health care - aka cartelization by government - makes everyone pay for something that doesn't work. And the same thing happens with the idea of Medicare for everyone.

Hillary As Spoiled Child

Hillary Milhous Clinton insists nothing can be her fault in her attempt to explain away why she lost yet another election.

Susan Rice And Obama's Disinformation Campaign

First this repost from April 4:

It is now clear the Obama administration launched a disinformation campaign using government law enforcement to smear Donald Trump - and Susan Rice was in the thick of it and lied repeatedly about it. Of course the Lamestream Media wants to ignore it. Meanwhile Victor Hanson looks at Rice and how Obama and the Democrats are using Soviet Russian "influence" as a dodge to get people from looking at their own lawbreaking with this look at how Obama used it to blackmail Senators to support his Iran appeasement.

UPDATE September 14:  Now has come more evidence - via a private admission by Rice to House investigators - that Rice has done nothing but lie about the entire affair.

The Larger Fraud Of Diversity

Diversity always sounds benign, but in practice never works better than e pluribus unum

The Muslim "Cause" As Seen By Muslim "Refugees"

Muslim refugees are not fleeing war, and the way they speak some of them express the reality of demographic imperialism.

Planned Parenthood As Establishment Killers

Planned Parenthood is not thought of as a part of the "establishment." But it is - and its role in illegal fetal tissue trafficking has been covered up by Media.

Successful Deregulation Of Trucking

Trucking was deregulated in 1980 - that it was Jimmy Carter enacting such deregulation is ironic. Media, however, are making up claims that deregulation has harmed the industry. The facts - as always - do not bear out any case against deregulation.

The Continuing Fantasy For Palestinians

The State Department - historically not a repository of good sense - keeps getting the savages of "Palestine" wrong.

Excuse-Mongering For Quitting Victory

Obama Administration satraps are determined to cover their own ass about the Obama regime's refusal to go for defeating the international dictatorship in Syria as the full folly of Obama's gutlessness there (and everywhere else, including Afghanistan) becomes all the more graphic.

The Spendaholic Debt

The debt crisis has hung over the head of the US for decades and the vote-buying corruption behind it gets examined here.

Smithfield's Petty Squabble

Aric Almirola and Richard Petty's win in the 2014 Firecracker 400 was the highlight of a partnership that suddenly has been torn asunder


Rumor that Smithfield Foods, one of the most prominent sponsors in NASCAR and one of the primary sponsors of Richard Petty's #43 team, would shift over the Stewart-Haas Racing organization has been circulating for a number of weeks.    The rumor became fact September 12 with announcement of the changeover and concurrent announcement that Aric Almirola would leave Petty's team, the rumor being he will be shifted to the SHR #10, replacing Danica Patrick.

Where the story turns eye-popping comes when Richard Petty himself expressed disappointment in the decision, stating Smithfield had expressed interest in staying with the team and even gave a handshake agreement to stay - "I come from a time when did major deals with sponsors like STP on a handshake."  

Smithfield's CEO strangely took umbrage at that, claiming that Petty "is lying" and attacked the team's performance.   The claim that Petty is lying is beyond incendiary, for Petty is famous for giving his word and staying with his word even at his own expense, most famously in the ill-fated two-year period under the Curb Motorsports aegis.   There is also speculation that it was Smithfield leaking out claim to be leaving; the rumor by all accounts never emanated from Petty's shop.

The team's present performance has certainly not been a winning performance; it has, though, been encouraging and strikingly strong (the #43 has been among the cars passing more cars than anyone else), notably the Daytona 500 and Winston 500 before Aric Almirola's disastrous back injury at Kansas.   Indeed the biggest irony is Smithfield attacks "RPM's inability to deliver on the track and the organization's repeated failure to present a plan to address its lack of competitiveness" yet is switching to a racecar, the #10, with fewer top-tens (one) than Almirola this season.

And the claim of "inability to deliver on the track" is grossly simplistic given encouraging efforts not only in the team's three top-ten finishes so far but also in promising efforts at the Firecracker 400 and Kentucky, Indianapolis, and Michigan, plus a decent run at Richmond.    This for a team that has had to field four drivers in one car this season and is recovering from the disastrous effort at building its own chassis in 2016 - which incidentally constitutes an attempt to "address its lack of competitiveness."  

The journey of Petty's team has been an enterprise of survival.  Reestablishing winning legitimacy has dogged Petty since the ultimately failed Curb Motorsports period, yet it finally got there in 1996, winning three times in a four-season span as the sport's economics became increasingly absurd.  It faltered badly in 2000 and had to survive the sport's fratricide of 2008-09.   Petty is still standing as a team owner when teams like Andy Petree, Robert Yates, Ray Evernham (whose team disintegrated and wound up being absorbed into the Petty organization), DEI (likewise absorbed, into Chip Ganassi's team, the two teams once fielding six racecars and from the beginning of 2010 a truncated two-car version of its former lives), and even Petty's present equipment supplier Roush Racing have either disbanded or are a mere shell of themselves.  George Gillett's merger of Ray Evernham's former team into Petty's organization and the signing of AJ Allmendinger gave the team competitive spark, but Gillett would leave and the team nearly foundered at the end of 2010; it was Petty who kept it going, winning twice at Watkins Glen with Marcos Ambrose in the #9 team before Almirola's Daytona win in 2014.

Smithfield's decision comes after the Subway chain of sandwich shops abruptly quit Joe Gibbs Racing in an apparent snit that one of its drivers made an ad for the Dunkin Donuts breakfast and coffee chain in promotion of New Hampshire's coming race.    It also comes amid commentary by Regan Smith, who on FOX Sports' NASCAR news show proclaimed discomfort with Smithfield's argument because he competed in Petty's #43 in two races this year on a handshake deal.  

One also should keep in mind Target's decision to leave Ganassi Racing despite the recent surge of success of Kyle Larson, this after some striking inconsistency.   Sponsors looking for reasons to leave find them for reasons unrelated to performance.

It all adds up to a stunning and disconcerting development - the team working to get better in essence gets ambushed by its sponsor.    Petty, the ultimate participant in stock car racing even today commands a respect unmatched in racing outside of AJ Foyt, his equal in Indycars, and his #43 on the racetrack personifies racing now and forever.    Effort to win has never been an issue, and Smithfield's rhetoric was ugly and grossly improper.  

With this development, the word is Darrell Wallace will drive Petty's #43 in 2018; after his very encouraging four-race tryout in 2017 one can feel confident he will make the team stronger.  It is no criticism of Almirola; the scuttlebutt was the original Petty plan was to field a two-car team for Almirola and Wallace under the aegis of RCR (a rumored RCR alliance supposedly explains the team's decision to vacate its present shop).   One feels the #43 will continue to make effort to win, and the possibility of success, despite the unfortunate criticism of Smithfield, remains real.



UPDATE, October 30, 2017: Smithfield apparently has worked out its disagreement with Petty and will sponsor the #43 in 2018 with driver Darrell Wallace Jr.   

September 1989 Buffalo Bills vs Houston Oilers

NFL Classics - 1989 Buffalo Bills at Houston Oilers 

Week One Lacks Luster So Week Two Needs Promise

The NFL's first week of 2017 erupted into some eye-popping surprises and some statement performances, but in the end turned out to be a lackluster opener with the lack of crisp play common to the league's opening week due to the restriction in physicality in practices etc. imposed from 2011 onward.   In league history falling to 0-2 has a poor record as far as rebounds, so "must win" becomes an angle to watch.



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Bengals over Texans -

This is a case of two teams that looked awful in their season opener.  The Bengals had beaten the Ravens seven of their previous ten meetings, so that makes this loss all the more disturbing for Cincy's season down the road.   Andy Dalton's performance tells the story - four INTs, just 170 yards passing, to go with a paltry 77 rushing yards (3.5 YPC).   He now hosts a Texans team whose defense is advertised as one of the best in the league but which got exposed as a fraud (especially Houston's run defense) by the Jaguars.   But of course it's quarterbacking that counts, and Bill O'Brien's inability to develop a quarterback is haunting his team yet again as Tom Savage played his way to the bench and then vaunted rookie Deshaun Watson threw a touchdown, got sacked four times, and threw an awful interception.    Savage may have to start again with Watson reportedly banged up, so Thursday Night Football's poor reputation for quality play may take another big hit this time around.



Patriots over Saints  - 

Of the surprises of Week One, none was bigger than New England's 42-27 embarrassment by the Kansas City Chiefs.   The most shocking development was Tom Brady periodically lapses into leaning on a binky instead of spreading the ball around; despite two weeks with which he was supposed to work more closely with his other receivers and for Josh McDaniels to work out a different game plan, the Patriots came out with essentially a Julian Edelman package for Danny Amendola and Brady leaned on a binky - Amendola's six catches for 100 yards were Edelman-esque until he was knocked out of the game.  After this Brady looked shockingly unprepared to throw to anyone else; the scoresheet says Brandin Cooks was targeted seven times but it never seemed like Brady looked his way that many times; Philip Dorsett, in Foxboro less than a week, was targeted once on an overthrow.   The Chiefs defense was the old clog-the-middle approach that teams have tried forever; the Falcons took away Edelman in the Superbowl and Brady got the hint and made the effort to engage others in the passing game. 

The Patriots are masters at making changes and Brady and Belichick undoubtedly let everyone else have it about lack of intensity, and at New Orleans one should expect a crisper, more prepared team, especially against a Saints team that's 39-42 (just one winning season) the last five seasons and which gave up 470 yards to the Vikings.   Drew Brees once again didn't deliver clutch performance, and was outscored by Brady 27-19 in comparing the two from Week One.   The controversy over Adrian Peterson's meltdown to Sean Payton ignores that he gained a paltry three yards per carry in his return to Minnesota. 



Browns over Ravens -  

The Ravens are suddenly boasting their defense is Superbowl caliber again, and Joe Flacco delivered enough offense to win the game.   The Ravens, though, weren't particularly effective on offense outside of Javorius Allen and Terrence West rushing for 151 yards, which certainly made a difference but also served to cloak weaknesses such as Danny Woodhead's injury (out up to six weeks per Pro Football Talk), Flacco's subpar passing (just 9 of 17 for 121 yards with a touchdown and a pick), and continued lack of contribution from Breshad Perriman.    The Browns come in with DeShone Kizer under center.   Though sacked seven times Kizer clawed the Browns into contention with 222 yards and a touchdown against the always-hated Steelers.    Cleveland looks for a rare victory over the Ravens, and right now the boasts about the Ravens defense need more substance behind them.



Bills over Panthers - 

Tyrod Tayler impressed new coach - and ex-Panther - Sean McDermott and everyone else as one of three backs rushing for 192 yards and added 224 passing yards and two scores.   He now faces a Panthers squad that beat up the woeful 49ers, putting up 116 yards on the ground and 171 from Cam Newton.   The Bills come in with the division lead while the Panthers are tied with the Falcons for the NFC South.   The Panthers' collapse last year is still fresh in the memory - the win at San Francisco was only the seventh in Carolina's last eighteen games - so it would seem the Bills may have an edge in momentum at the moment.



Cardinals over Colts -

Jacoby Brissett at this writing is the presumptive starter for the Colts after Scott Tolzien gagged his way out of his starting job in getting obliterated by the Rams; the last time the Colts cycled through the NFC West (2013) the Rams and Cardinals laid waste to the Colts and the organization looks in shambles.    This is a blessing the Cardinals needed after gagging in Detroit and looking like just another 8-8 at best team with aging and increasingly ineffective Carson Palmer (three INTs at Detroit).   The Colts should make this game far more competitive than they attempted at Los Angeles. 



Jaguars over Titans -

This series has split the last eight seasons and the last time the road time won was the 2013 season split.   The game should be bitterly tight; the Jaguars managed just 125 yards in the air, may be without Allen Robinson at receiver, and committed ten penalties while the Titans in their loss to the Raiders had just five penalties and were not too bad in run defense (3.7 YPC allowed), plus Marcus Mariota is a higher caliber quarterback than Tom Savage or Deshaun Watson.   Overall, though, the biggest difference is the Jaguars appear far crisper and defensively they look a lot better than they've looked in years.     



Chiefs over Eagles -  

The Eagles showed competitive form in beating the Redskins but now face their former coach and his Chiefs team with momentum after their biggest win in years.    Losing Eric Berry for the season, though, may weaken the Chiefs defense, especially with Carson Wentz coming in after putting up over 300 yards in the air.   Alex Smith, though, can certainly counter this and one suspects Andy Reid still has a feel for the NFC East as it rotates through the AFC West.



Vikings over Steelers -

The Steelers beat the Browns again, but Ben Roethlisberger, though efficient, curiously looks less engaged than before; his talk about retirement still hangs over the Steelers and they host a Vikings team with an emotional win over the Saints under their belt and nearly 500 yards of offense generated.   Le'Veon Bell rushed for thirty-two yards on ten carries; he should be better as he gets more snaps, but overall the Steelers didn't look different from what they were last season.



Bears over Buccaneers -  

The Bears showed something in a bitter loss to the Falcons, falling short on four straight pass incompletions, with two ugly drops, in the hot zone at the end of the game.    They get a Bucs team that hasn't played thanks to the disaster that has been 2017's hurricane season and we saw how Houston didn't respond after that city withstood a huge hurricane.  



Dolphins over Chargers -

The Chargers are kicking themselves after the bitterest loss they've experienced in awhile.   The Dolphins beat the Chargers last season and Jay Cutler may not be a wise choice at quarterback but is good enough to attack a Chargers team that hasn't shown it can respond to losses like the one at Denver.



Raiders over NY Jets -

What you need to know - Josh McCown's passer rating against the Bills was 56.3, Todd Bowles punted instead of convert 4th and 8 with four minutes to go, and the result was not only a loss but sign the Jets have no fight.   The Raiders meanwhile are loaded for a title run, so this should be easy pickings.



Cowboys over Broncos   -

The Broncos win by escaping yet again, and being sixteenth in points allowed after one game is not a good sign against a Cowboys team that curiously is just seventeenth in scoring (though third in points allowed).   Trevor Siemian had a respectable night - 94.2 passer rating is getting a good job done - but the Broncos basically just frontran and when the Chargers finally started fighting back the Broncos didn't respond well, and the O-line did Siemian no favors on back-to-back sacks before the missed FGA that led to the mind-blower of a finish.   We saw last year the Broncos live by escaping and eventually die by it. 



Seahawks over 49ers - 

Two lackluster teams.   The Niners are in full rebuild mode while the Seahawks we thought were the most season-ready of everyone coming out of preseason; that has not been the case, on the contrary the Seahawks look in slow-motion collapse.   The curious aspect is Russell Wilson not delivering enough to make the Seahawks win more with the Seahawks just 25th in scoring.   The home record should help them here.



Rams over Redskins - 

The Rams we doubt are this good overall, but scoring 46 points in the NFL is pretty damned good, and hosting a Redskins outfit that looks to have regressed back into Deadskins mode should help the Rams, who forced three turnovers by the Colts and see a Skins offense that gagged up four against the Eagles. 



Falcons over Packers  -

The Packers produced a lackluster win over a bad road team in the Seahawks and now return to the sight of a two-game sweep by 77-53 in 2016.   The Packers are fifth in points allowed but the Falcons showed at the Bears that they can win low-scoring games, plus the Packers in the fourth quarter against the Seahawks once again didn't raise their game, a malady that has dogged Aaron Rodgers his whole career (noteworthy is the Falcons in the fourth against the Bears outscored the Packers against the Seahawks 10-3).   



Lions over NY Giants - 

The Lions have yet to beat quality foes but in the NY Giants they get a team that looks disorganized and poorly prepared.   Eli Manning threw a pick, the O-line is a mess, Brandon Marshall has already proven himself irrelevant, Odell Beckham Jr. isn't clutch even when healthy, and the Giants are thirteenth in points allowed while giving up 4.2 YPC on the ground and 6.6 YPP in the air.   The Lions, though, aren't that good on the ground (a paltry three YPC) while Matthew Stafford for now looks a lot better a quarterback than Eli, so the Lions we think will focus at first on throwing their way to a lead. 



And so we await Week Two.

Russia, Red China, And North Korea

Red China and its surrogate North Korea have become a genuine international threat, while focus on Vladimir Putin from Obama appeasement to Democratic obsession with nonexistent collusion has been a failure.

Trump Routing Progressivism

Progressives think they're winning against Trump. They're not. Related here is the sick saga of left-wing character assassin Rachel Maddow as she bolloxes up the history of Woodrow Wilson to try and attack Trump.

Israel Does The Right Thing

Israel attacked a chemical weapons base in Syria - another case of Israel doing the right thing for over fifty years now.

Debasing The Memory Of 2001

Leftists hijacked the memory of the 2001 attacks and the myth it created has debased society.

The Lie Of "Virtue"

Modern life has embraced a sham version of "virtue" that is nothing but character assassination.

The Michael Bennett Disinformation Campaign

Seattle Seahawks defensive player Michael Bennett has made himself a major figure when he claimed, nearly two weeks after the fact, that he was grabbed by police and cuffed after the Floyd Mayweather-Conor MacGregor match in Las Vegas; Bennett claims he was targeted because he is black, that an officer threatened him by saying he's "blow your f----ng head off," and that he'd obeyed officer commands when a gunman threat suddenly erupted at the area where Bennett was leaving.

The Vegas police in response to Bennett's public accusation released video evidence of the incident showing Bennett disobeying officer commands, hiding and trying to flee - in manner that one could interpret as resisting arrest - and with the officer involved using kid-glove treatment on Bennett, being strikingly careful at applying cuffs and nowhere using any force on Bennett.   Nowhere does this heavily recorded incident support any of Bennett's claims, especially with regard to his claim of a violent threat by an officer; even a claim an officer pulled a gun on Bennett is disproven by closer examination showing a taser unholstered.

And Bennett's claim he was targeted for being black was refuted by his own lawyer, saying it was not racially motivated - the cops were trying to protect an audience that was mostly black, as were the two officers involved with Bennett.


It continues a trend of dishonesty by Bennett, who sided publicly with Colin Kaepernick's anthem protest and put his foot in his mouth when he spoke out for Palestinian savages and seemed surprised when people objected.   Bennett wants to pretend he was targeted for being black - and the facts don't support him.   So his word carries no credible weight.

Already Bennett rumpswabs have made the claim the Vegas Police Department and its union - this after the Vegas police union complained to Roger Goodell about his public support of Bennett despite escalating refutation of Bennett's story - was launching "a smear campaign."   It's a sign of losing the argument on facts that his attorney claims this.

Bennett like all leftists is a waste of time and it's past time he be ignored as a liar.

Title IX's Rape Fantasies

A look at the false rape allegations pushed forward by Title IX.

Russia's Ukraine Invasion, Again

Vladmir Putin is at it again in his invasion of Ukraine.

The Endless Cover Your Ass Campaign

The narratives pushed by the Mainstream Media about James Comey and also the left-wing savages of Antifa are the case of government ineptitude and media dishonesty working ever harder against the truth.

"(B)ased largely on the DNC's strange outsourcing of the investigation to a private cybersecurity firm....." 

"....Debbie Wasserman-Schultz weirdly refused to allow forensic detectives from the FBI to examine the DNC server.....Why did the FBI accept that refusal?

"Comey may have been the most politicized, duplicitous, and out-of-control FBI director since J. Edgar Hoover." 

The Puncturing Of Obamacare's Latest Lie

Obama and his media toadies claimed uninsured admissions to hospitals would be reduced by Obamacare. They've escalated. Attempt continues to keep the failed law alive.

The DACA Myth

Donald Trump has ended the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program and it's caused an uproar in the media and among the Left. It's a program that rewards illegal immigrants and as such it was illegal, as Obama himself admitted in 2010 -

"When I talk to immigration advocates they wish I could just bypass Congress and change the law myself. But that's not how a democracy works."

 He then went out and did just that.   And people are praising him for enabling law-breaking.   Blanket entitlement drives such advocacy.  The claims of economic advantage by allowing illegal immigration have never been particularly credible, with very heavy welfare dependency as shown by Harvard University and also heavy involvement in felony crimes. There is nothing wrong with legal immigration - it's the illegal kind that is a societal problem, and Trump is right about it.

Here is another area where Democrats get it wrong.

Obama Plays Cover Your Ass Again

With the UN addressing Syrian genocides, Obama's refusal to fight against them is now coming back to haunt him, so he plays Cover Your Ass.

When Economic Reality Dictates Gender Wages

It's the hoariest myth in economics about women being denied the wages men earn - and as usual the myth is wrong.