BY: JORGE BONILLA The North Korean regime has escalated its rhetoric yet again. In a statement released by the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army, the Kim regime has indicated that a nuclear attack on the United States has been approved. Per Seoul’s Yonhap News Agency, the Hermit Kingdom vows “actual military actions”, among … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Comes now a near-meltdown from Puerto Rico’s governor, Alejandro García Padilla (D/PPD), in reaction to the island’s bond-market woes. Watch (via NotiUno 630) as AGP engages in some political chest-puffery and recycles his party’s “we don’t govern/legislate for the bond markets” meme. Munilanders everywhere will surely take note. I suspect he already … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Javier covered this just yesterday…but today (via Newsbusters, H/T Weasel Zippers) we have tangible visual evidence of the spread of Ben Carson Derangement Syndrome to near-pandemic proportions. Symptoms of BCDS include psychotic rage and charges of race-betrayal, and there is no known cure. Watch Leo Terrell’s rant very closely. The charges of … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Islandside Puerto Ricans are particularly fond of referring to their political class as “los genios de la insuficiencia (the geniuses of insufficiency)”. This particularly apt pejorative goes a long way towards describing the kind of awful governance that has plagued the U.S. Commonwealth for over 50 years. In the latest incarnation of … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA From the House Ways And Means Committee comes now further evidence of the prescience of Fréderic Bastiat, and his introduction (and denunciation) of the concept of “legal plunder” into our politics. We see this principle on naked display, precisely, on page 59 of the 60-page ObamaCare application. Individuals requesting ObamaCare benefits, whether it … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Alternate headline: Made you look, and yes, the Sentinel made me click too. Such is today’s state of artificial racial dudgeon that I began to wonder why the Sentinel would even race-bait like that. But it turns out that in today’s installment of ”To Catch A Predator”, a former Latin teacher (as in … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA By now, defenders of the Second Amendment have grown accustomed to CNN’s Piers Morgan, and his obnoxiously shrill brand of opportunistic gun-control advocacy. However, a combination of middling ratings and frequent trouncings by conservatives have rendered Morgan little more than histrionic nanny-state comic relief to Mike Bloomberg’s straight man. But what … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA Alternate headline: Thanks for supporting teacher pay and Medicaid expansion, Governor, but you still suck. If the most recent Quinnipiac poll is any indication, Gov. Rick Scott faces a grim slog to reelection. Just to be clear, I’m defining “grim slog” as a 16-point smashing at the hands of Charlie Crist. Lest … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA In which Venezuelan caretaker president Nicolás Maduro brings the cray-cray by going on state-run TV and railing against an unfriendly editorial while accusing the “crazy hawks” within the American national security apparatus of puppeteering the Venezuelan right and orchestrating electoral sabotage. When Chávez passed, I remarked that the script of his funeral … Read more
BY: JORGE BONILLA If Senator Dianne Feinstein wants to enact her precious assault-weapons ban, she’s going to have to do it on her own as an amendment, because her very own Majority Leader just put the kibosh to the ban in the Senate’s draft gun bill. Per Politico (H/T Twitchy): Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said … Read more