Headlines

The following headlines were all found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Populists suffer setbacks in Italy's local elections

12 injured as Molotov cocktail explodes in Paris restaurant

Trump accuses 'cowardly' Comey of more leaks

Puerto Rico votes in favor of statehood ...

Rubio defends his questioning of Comey

Bill O'Reilly: I may be back on television soon

Gingrich says Mueller isn't neutral, calls on Congress to abolish Special Counsel

Israel court: journalists to pay Netanyaho damages for libel ...

Republicans refuse to back Trump's attack on Comey

Trump shows up uninvited to random couple's wedding

Delta, Bank of America dump NY.c public theater over play depicting Trump assassination

Michael Jordan sneakers fetch a record $190,000

20 Questions

1 - Who has a higher BMI, Whoopi Goldberg or Michael Moore?

2 - If our reality is all part of a giagantic computer simulation, who programmed the computer?

3 - Why can't we get Kim Jong Un and Ayatollah Khamenei to threaten each other?

4 - Does Hillary Clinton have any peers who could eventually serve as her jury?

5 - What does Bill O'Reilly normally drink for breakfast, coffee or hot chocolate?

6 - What peace does the UN Peacekeeping Forces keep?

7 -  Will Canada accept Rosie O'Donnell if she finally tries to move there?

8 - Is science whatever liberals say it is?

9 - Will Trump use illegal immigrants to build the Mexican wall?

10 - Will we ever have contact with alien life ... and, if so, what will we say?

11 - When will Nancy Pelosi's face fall off?

12 - What do martyred Muslim gay men do with their 72 virgins?

13 - To where does all of Venezuela's oil revenues disappear?

14 - Will today's high school seniors be playing rap music at their 50th reunions?

15 - When autonomous cars are commonplace who will pay their parking tickets?

16 - Why doesn't Bill Gates just buy his own country?

17 - Will Chelsea Clinton ever serve as an elected government official?

18 - What happens to al the weight that people lose on the Jenny Craig diet?

19 - Does Al Gore have any convenient truths?

20 - Why do fools fall in love?

Culture Wars

The Republicans now control Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court and 2/3rds of the states' legislatures ... obviously a huge win in the political wars. This is a bit surprising since the Democrats keep winning the cultural wars ... as exemplified by Bill O'Reily recent ouster from Fox News. The Democrats, by diluting the Fox message, now have even a bigger strangle hold on the media. And since they also control Hollywood, higher education,Wall Street, most of the music business, foundations, the Internet social media and, increasingly, sports broadcasting, they are bound to make a political comeback if they can just find a few likable candidates.

Unless, of course, conservatives can somehow begin to make equivalent inroads in the cultural wars. But how? Well, the longest journey starts with a few steps.  I can think of two modest initial targets ... journalism schools and foundations. This won't be easy as these two institution are loaded with progressives. Let us look at each one separately:

- For the journalism schools, may I suggest that some wealthy conservatives endow some inspirational and conservative professors to teach courses like Journalistic Ethics or The Rule of Law or Facts vs. Opinion. Perhaps a few students might be disuaded from being proxy politicians.

- For the foundations, I would suggest that a few lawsuits might be initiated to insure that now-liberal foundations be forced to comply with their original charters ... many of which are far afield from that which they now practice. I suspect that many of those who set up foundations for noble ends are spinning in their graves over what has happened to their beloved intentions.

Just accomplishing these two started goals would be a good win in the other, equally-important battle ... the  conservatives' battle to win back the culture wars. But in any case it should be a long slogue.

A Bear Hug

Megyn Kelly has leveled her public-relations bazooka at her boss, the head of the Fox News Network ... Roger Ailes, clearly in order to bring him down. What did Ailes do to deserve this fusillade? He gave her a peck on the cheek and a bear hug ten years ago ... and this, to Ms. Kelly, was sexual harassment. Of course Megyn Kelly has risen through the ranks at Fox News during the interim period ... praising Roger Ailes all the while for his mentoring ... to the point where she is now a multi-millionaire media star with a prime-time program on Fox.

I have written in the past about Megyn Kelly ... about how her severe mien and whiskey voice has struck me as a would-be dominatrix ... see: A Foxy Question. My instincts about this woman seem to match Donald Trump's who clearly didn't and doesn't like her ... although, in typical Trump fashion, he tripped clumsily over his tongue during the presidential debate that she co-hosted.

Now apparently as many as 50 of Fox's superstars, Bill O'Reilly, Greta Van Susteren, Sean Hannity, etc. have threatened to leave Fox if Ailes goes ... see: American News Story.

SCOOP: Today on the Boston talk radio show, The Kuhner Report, the rumor was revealed that the Trump family is ready to fund a new cable network ("balanced and fair" Wolf News?) and hire this whole group who are threatening to leave Fox. Wouldn't it be an interesting twist of fate tf Ms. Kelly's traitorous payback of Ailes spawned this competing network. She would then be maybe the last standing star at Fox ... a once proud cable network with no more viewers!

And then who might Cruella Kelly dominate?

Puddin Heads

At the request of a reader and fellow global-warming skeptic, I offer the following link to a survey that, although poorly written, shows the younger you are the less convinced you are about the alarmists' manifesto regarding climate change ... see: Watts Up With That.

Now I would like to believe that this is because our young'ens are keen thinkers and able to separate the truth from all this hysterical CO2 chaff being thrown at them daily ... but, in the same batch of e-mails, I also received the following video from another reader showing that the students at Texas Tech are about as puddin headed about important topics as kids in kindergarten ... see: Texas Tech Video. But, as you will also see, they are geniuses at pop culture.

This kind of depressing revelation about our young people (except for the global warming stuff) has been repeated over and over by the likes of Jay Leno, Bill O'Reilly, and Jimmy Fallon. Perhaps, just perhaps, we might consider asking that Civil War question as a requisite for voting in the next general election? Just a thought ...

Priorities

I don’t particularly like Bill O’Reilly as I find him a little too pompous for my taste. Anyhow, last night I did happen to be watching him as he was interviewing Josh Earnest, the Obama administration’s press secretary, regarding Islamic terrorism and their recent attacks in Paris. O’Reilly was on a rant and tore Earnest a new orifice. In particular, after ticking off the numerous recent horrendous incidents of Muslim butchery, O’Reilly asked him what was Obama’s strategy for defeating the worldwide Jihadist movement. The usually glib Earnest said that Obama did not have one! Oops!

However, our fearless leader apparently did spend his 17-day Hawaiian vacation coming up with another government spending program to appease his base … taxpayer-funded (China-funded, actually) free two-years of community college. I’m so glad that our president has his priorities straight.

Juxtaposition III

Acknowledgment: Bill O'Reilly