Author: J.P. Travis

Silvio Berlusconi convicted – sentenced to seven years in prison. The former Premier of Italy was accused of paying an underage prostitute for sex. Although she told everyone she was 24, she was actually 17. Pretty much the same thing happened here in the U.S. and instead of putting the guy in prison we elected his wife to the Senate.

10 problems with the immigration bill. Number 9 says it all: once again our congresscritters are shoving pork-laden bad legislation that nobody has read down our throats.

23 photos of Sasha & Malia in Ireland. Can you find even one where they don’t look like bored, rude, spoiled little rich kids?

Twinkies are back! Minus 15,000 union workers who were bankrupting the company. It would be nice if unions learned a lesson from this but… they won’t.

Chelsea Clinton complains that her great grandmother didn’t have access to Planned Parenthood… apparently missing the logical connection to her own existence.

Birthrate in India about to plummet. The Madras High Court just ruled that any couple having sex shall thenceforth be considered legally married, requiring legal divorce proceedings and the whole nine yards. Even at two in the morning wearing beer goggles, this will temper some passions.

NTSB investigators claim official story about TWA Flight 800 is a lie. To anyone who has followed the Flight 800 story over the years this is not a surprise. 270 eyewitnesses saw a missile ascend and strike the plane but Bill Clinton didn’t want a successful terrorist attack ruining his re-election chances, so the investigation was taken from the National Transportation Safety Board and handed to the politically-controlled FBI… by none other than Jamie Gorelick.

Trial about eight-month erection results in hung jury. A Delaware truck driver’s lawsuit seeking compensation for the inconvenience of having an erection that lasted eight months awarded him no damages. Apparently, not enough jurors could understand how it was inconvenient.

Boy Scouts lead Gay Pride Parade in Salt Lake City. What? You thought the gays were done forcing their agenda on the Boy Scouts? Not hardly.

Chutzpah from the denizens of hell on Father’s Day. Planned Parenthood says “Happy Father’s Day” even though their business is preventing fatherhood.

Pakistan hates gays but loves gay porn. The Muslim country is rated most intolerant of homosexuality but leads the world in Internet searches for gay pornography. Luckily, as Muslims they’re used to logical inconsistency.

Afghanistan parliament rejects measure to stop grown men from marrying little girls. They decided banning pedophilia would run counter to Islamic theology. We agree.

Glenn Beck announced another momentous disclosure. This time it’s news that (he says) will bring down the entire power structure of the U.S. government (a power structure originally scheduled to topple April 22, remember?) . The news was due today. So far nothing. While we’re waiting, Glenn, some reading you might find useful: The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Aesop.

Demonstrating the meaning of the word “dumb.” While calling the border fence she herself voted for a few years ago “dumb,” Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) stated that South Dakota shares a border with Canada.

NSA has built-in backdoor to all Windows software. If this revelation doesn’t send Microsoft sales into a tailspin then Al Gore isn’t fat.

Guess what book is rocketing up the Amazon sales ranks. 1984 by George Orwell, of course. Sales climbed 5,771% in a couple days after the NSA spying scandal broke, propelling the book from number 12,507 to number 213.

Whistle-blower Edward Snowden left more than his family behind… when he fled to Hong Kong. He also left his pole-dancer girlfriend. She’s upset and feels “adrift.” But she’s flexible – she’ll survive.

Another electric car company declares bankruptcy. Sub-headline: Another “Green” Entrepreneur Looks Foolish. How many failed electric car companies is this now? Anybody keeping count? On a side note, the U.S. Department of Energy has backed off on President Barack Obama’s goal of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. Sub-sidenote: Obama was clueless when he set that goal.

Rangel is okay with NSA spying as long as Obama is president. “You have to have some confidence in this president, and quite frankly, if it was a different president I might take a different look at the legislation.” What are we seeing here from the congressman? A lack of principles, malfunctioning neurons in his brain, or simple racism?

Obama says Senate immigration bill requires that illegals learn English. It doesn’t. They get legalized as “Registered Provisional Immigrants” first, then they get to renew the status (still no English) six years later, then comes step three twelve years down the line where they merely show they’re “enrolled” in an English class. So the debate continues: is our president clueless or an inveterate liar?

What will the human species look like in 100,000 years? An artist partnered with a computational geneticist to extrapolate past physical changes into the future. Above, typical man and woman now. Below, same thing 100,000 years from now. Maybe we’re nitpicking, but clearly they didn’t consider political effects. Realistically, given the way Obama is taking the nation, the second picture should have bar codes on foreheads and metal shock collars around their necks.

Northeast Colorado counties considering forming a new state. It’s happened before (5 times in U.S. history). There’s nothing illegal about it. Conservatives in rural northeast Colorado are sick and tired of liberals in the state government ruining their businesses, telling them what to do, and collecting tax dollars for their own benefit. Who is John Galt? Well, in the book, he was a guy living in Colorado…

Obama faces audience with no speech. His beloved teleprompter had the day off and someone forgot to put his speech on the podium. He’ll probably have nightmares for weeks. Obama without a prepared speech is like a goose without water – awkward and honking at everybody around him.

Four Obama scandals have broken in recent weeks… not one of them by the mainstream media. Which raises an important question: what in the hell are all those so-called “journalists” who work for the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS News, CNN, etc., doing all day long?

Congressman wants to require military chaplains for atheists. Another day, another example of stupidity by a Democrat. So far Rep. Robert “Robbie” Andrews (D-NJ) hasn’t explained to whom (or to what) an atheist chaplain would pray.