Darrick Johnson
The Resurgent
Eaton, CO, United States
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Writing The Pine: Kaepernick Seeks Book Deal
According to Fox News, erstwhile NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is meeting with publishers in New York, seeking a book deal. This comes just a week after filing a grievance against the NFL owners, alleging a collusion conspiracy not to sign him, in the wake of his national anthem protests. If Kaepernick's twitter feed is any indication, a forthcoming book will likely shed light on the former… → Read More
Worried About The Environment? Eat Beans Instead Of Steak
The left, always looking for new, and novel ways to alienate the electorate, is now after those delicious steaks and burgers on your grill. → Read More
The Cruel Hopelessness Of “Single Payer”
In the current debate over the Affordable Care Act, we really are in the midst of a great proxy war over single payer health care. Sure, its not on the table with this Congress, and Obamacare, while a bureaucratic monstrosity, isn’t single payer. But the debate surrounding GOP efforts to repeal, or at least reform the law is really a precursor to a national debate over single payer. Regardless… → Read More
Law of Supply and Demand Upheld in Seattle Minimum Wage Case
It turns out that not every law liberals don't like can be overturned by the Supreme Court. In 2014, Seattle, following the instructions of liberal activists, agreed to raise its minimum wage to $15/hour. It turns out this is doing exactly what every conservative, free market economist expected it would: Reduce jobs and work hours for those making at or near the minimum wage. A University of… → Read More
Early Festivus: Iowa GOP Chair Airs Grievances With Sasse
Festivus has come early in Iowa, at least the “airing of grievances” portion, with state GOP chairman Jeff Kauffman unleashing an odd rant against Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse, before a Trump rally in Cedar Rapids. According to Politico, a “a visibly chafed Kaufmann announced that he needed to get some things off his chest and proceeded to spend most of his time berating the president’s critics in… → Read More
Sanders: Senate Health Care Bill “Most Harmful” In His Lifetime
A little over a week after one of his supporters attempted to assassinate GOP members of Congress, Senator Bernie Sanders, who apparently read a 142 page bill in less than 5 minutes, greeted the release of the Senate GOP's health care bill with some ridiculously over-heated tweets. First, its a minor surprise that Sanders, an avowed socialist, went with the 2017 senate draft of the AHCA over the → Read More
Want To Fix The Environment? Less Marching, More Working
A few weeks ago, my wife and I happened to be in downtown Denver the same day as the “March For Science.” It was an odd thing to observe. It was strikingly unsacrificial. If you’re familiar with Denver, its not exactly a herculean effort to draw young, wealthy liberals downtown on a Saturday. Sure, they had repurposed their knitted hats from the Women’s march into “brain” hats, and had to defer… → Read More
Un-Settled Science
The “settled” science of climate change continued to have a bad week, in the aftermath of the United States’ departure from the Paris accords. NASA revealed a new study showing that an Antarctic Glacier isn’t shrinking as fast as previously thought. Scientists believe the Thwaites Glacier’s melt is responsible for 1% of the projected global sea level rise. According to the new study, earlier… → Read More
Onward Together! Hillary Launches New ScamPac
When it comes to political grift, no one is more persistent than the Clinton crime family. (Sorry Senator Warren) Today Hillary Clinton announced the formation of her new political action committee, → Read More
In Iowa, Obamacare Is Repealing Itself
Adam Smith continues to have more success repealing Obamacare than the House GOP. Iowa, which has seen a steady departure of insurance carriers is on the cusp of losing its final major insurance provider, Medica. The Minnesota based insurer announced that it will not offer individual policies in Iowa for 2018. According the Des Moines Register, this move would leave over 70,000 Iowans with zero… → Read More
Mass Layoffs, But Few Lessons Learned At ESPN
Today ESPN announced the layoffs of around 100 employees, including some of very highly respected and recognizable, on-air talent, such as Trent Dilfer, Jayson Stark, and Ed Werder. ESPN’s bottom line has been hurt by the expensive broadcast fees it pays to air live sports, coupled with an increasing number of “cord-cutters”, typically younger viewers opting out of cable or satellite fees in… → Read More
NBC Sports Writer: Tone Down The Patriotism
NBC Sports lead baseball writer, Craig Calcaterra, set off a twitter firestorm over the weekend, tweeting out a photo of the giant American Flag covering the field at Atlanta’s new baseball stadium, SunTrust Park, with the troll-bait inscription: “Will you keep the politics out of sports please. We like sports to be politics-free.” Calcaterra, who tweets frequently about politics as well as… → Read More
EPA Continues To Be Poster Child For Government Waste
The Washington Free Beacon obtained receipts showing that the EPA, ostensibly worried about proposed budget cuts, purchased $15,000 worth of gym memberships for its employees last April. The office in question is located on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, and can purchase access to the campus gym for $25/month, but instead opted for a premium gym membership off campus, The… → Read More
McCain, Cruz Get Under Kim Jong Un’s Skin
Arizona's senior Senator knows how to push North Korea's Supreme Leader's buttons. In an interview with Greta Van Susteren, McCain called out Kim as the Crazy fat kid that's running North Korea The Korean Central News Agency, North Korea's propaganda arm, responded characteristically, saying that McCain's comments, along with Ted Cruz's efforts to re-label North Korea as a state sponsor of… → Read More
Death Spiral: Anthem To Bail On Obamacare
This is what a death spiral looks like. Insurer Anthem Inc. is looking to exit → Read More
DC’s Idiotic New Daycare Rule
If you want a concrete demonstration of how progressivism hurts working Americans, look no further than DC's new child care rule rule, requiring workers to have a college degree. While the proponents claim the rule puts them → Read More
Senator Durbin Admits: Abortion Is The Taking Of Human Life
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, knows too. Durbin tried to put Gorsuch on the spot, but gave away the lie behind abortion. Quoting from a book Gorsuch wrote, Durbin asked: > “You said, ‘The intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.’ How could you square that statement with legal abortion?” Good question, Senator. Do you not believe the intentional taking of human life… → Read More
Chelsea Clinton To Publish Children’s Book: “She Persisted”
Someone page Elizabeth Warren. The Clinton family is stealing her contrived grievance. Coming out this May, the former first daughter's book is supposed to offer inspiring profiles of women who → Read More
Planned Parenthood Head: Trump Lied About Offer
When you spend your career vigorously flouting the 6th commandment, do you still get to complain about perceived violations of the 9th? During an interview with Anderson Cooper, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards claimed that President Trump lied, and had never offered to keep funding Planned Parenthood, if they stopped doing abortions. As the author over at The Right Scoop notes,… → Read More
Who Will Fact Check Snopes?
If Nancy Pelosi encouraged Americans to wire funds to a → Read More