By Robert Ringer

What a horrific tragedy last Saturday when a small plane crashed into a helicopter and nine people plunged to their death in the Hudson River — the same river, ironically, where 155 people walked away unscathed from the crash landing of a US Airways commercial jet less than seven months ago. Whether an atheist, religionist, spiritualist, or agnostic, a person can go mad trying to make sense out of life.

Seemingly random deaths from airplane crashes, train wrecks, automobile accidents, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis … and endless freak accidents … leave a person scratching his head and resigning himself to the reality that, despite man’s best efforts to protect himself and his family, he cannot do much about the seemingly inevitable. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

Now that citizens who show up at town-hall meetings officially have been labeled “angry mobs” by their employees (i.e., the people they elect to represent them), Saul Alinsky (“the founder of community organizing in America”) must be smiling from below. An individual’s voice of dissent is no longer seen as such, because he is simply part of an unruly mob. In other words, he’s not a real person.

Dehumanization is a favorite trick of progressives. When the Supreme Court, in a landmark case in 1857, ruled against Dred Scott, a slave who had lived for long periods of time in free states with his master, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney explained the court’s decision by simply proclaiming that Scott was nothing more than the property of his owner — and property, of course, had no right to file a lawsuit. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

I’ve always thought that Frank Luntz seemed like a nice young man with an interesting shtick — measuring people’s reactions to words via some kind of electronic gizmo he puts in their hands. I have no idea how valid his measurements are, but it’s worked well enough to make him a regular on Fox News.

And I say more power to him; I love to see people succeed. Luntz’s day job is acting as a political consultant and pollster for the Republican Party, and he also is one of the principals of the Luntz, Maslansky Strategic Research firm. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

The bloggers (and media) are still saturating the planet with stories of Sarah Palin’s stupidity. So much so that she should start demanding royalties. So, are they right? Is Sarah Palin just plain stupid? Or is she smart but ignorant (uninformed)?

Here’s an interesting question: If Sarah Palin really is stupid or ignorant — or both — does that necessarily mean that she’s not a good, or even great, leader? Going back to the days of Henry Ford, we’ve heard tale after tale of people who lacked intelligence but were great leaders. Read the rest of this entry »

By Robert Ringer

Obama’s “Beer Summit” was yet another stupid distraction from the reality that his czars, thugocrats, and progressive supporters in Congress are moving quickly to shove us into the socialist cage and slam the door shut before another election can take place. Thankfully, most people didn’t buy into this sideshow, seeing it as just another asinine, arrogant attempt to bolster his good-guy image.

Francis Reilly, president of Reilly Communications Inc., described Obama’s cheap theatrics this way: “Roosevelt had his Malta, Obama has his Malt.” If BHO didn’t have bad intentions, you’d be tempted to dismissively chuckle at his childish antics. Read the rest of this entry »