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No Surprise… More Ph.Ds are Out of Work
There is a story on the internet about a college kid who says that both of his parents have Ph.Ds but that they both are unemployed. Awwww…. Poor Ph.Ds… So smart and so unemployed! Yet this kid fails to understand … Continue reading
Obama Makes Fake Graduation Speech
Barack Obama addressed students at the graduation for Morehouse College. His speech was a smokescreen. Here are excerpts from the speech with Nikitas3.com comments about each. Washingtonpost.com reported: President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College … Continue reading
With IRS Scandal, 2012 Election Should be Voided, Done Over
The November 2012 election that re-elected Barack Obama and many Democrats in the US Senate should be declared null and void. We now know that the Obama administration and its Internal Revenue Service goons disenfranchised millions of voters in that … Continue reading
Obama Scandals are Popping Up Everywhere
There is an old adage in politics that “the cover-up is worse than the crime”. And indeed Obama suddenly has run into a bulldozer of both scandal and cover-up in not one but five separate issues, the first and foremost … Continue reading
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Massive Energy Boondoggle is Growing in France
Independent.co.uk, the website of the Independent newspaper in Britain, recently reported: An idyllic hilltop setting in the Cadarache forest of Provence in the south of France has become the site of an ambitious attempt to harness the nuclear power of … Continue reading
Liberals Use Media Subterfuge Daily, Including C-Span
(This is a Nikitas3.com editorial from late 2010 that is still pertinent today.) C-Span is a noncommercial cable TV channel (actually three channels now) that shows programs and events that would never be covered on traditional commercial stations. For instance … Continue reading
Conservative Texas is Keeping US Economy Afloat
Our depression-era president Barack Obama was in Texas twice recently. One picture showed him wearing a cowboy hat. He was touting jobs and the “growing” American economy and is trying to get more Texans to vote Democrat. Yet one of … Continue reading
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Media Cover-up of Crucial Stories is Alarming
There are several stories that have been in the news lately that are worth thinking about for the way that the Liberal Media have been treating them. The first was the trial of a woman named Jodi Arias who stabbed … Continue reading
Everyone Must Pay Taxes… Everyone!
“Everyone needs to pay something,” Republican Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann said about taxation during a debate when she was running for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Amen… Good for her common sense, which we expect from a conservative. … Continue reading
Arts: Beautiful Architecture in Albany, New York
While the state capital of Albany, New York might not suggest great architecture, it has many notable buildings. Albany is one of the oldest cities in America. And it has some important modernist architecture, but this photo essay will focus … Continue reading
17 Awesome GOP Candidates for the White House in 2016
Texas governor Rick Perry ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2012. Although he dropped out of the race and Mitt Romney became the nominee, you can expect Perry to run again in 2016. And the Democrats are scared … Continue reading
Republican Could Win Massachusetts US Senate Seat
Gabriel Gomez, a former Navy SEAL, Harvard MBA and founder of an investment firm, has the type of ‘outsider’ credibility and moderate positions that Republicans hope can win the US Senate seat in Massachusetts in a June 25 special election. … Continue reading
‘Blame Strategy’ is Working for Obama, Democrats
One of the central traits of those on the Democrat left is to always blame other people for personal failure and for any failures in society. For example, blacks always blame “white people” and “racism” for their failures and never … Continue reading
Liberals Inflict Maximum Pain in Budget Battle
A recent news report said that the Federal Aviation Administration had made 10% staffing cuts in light of the federal spending “sequester”. This was causing major delays at airports where 2 million Americans travel each day. But the sequester was … Continue reading
No Surprise… Gays ‘Coming Out’ Younger
Now that one single professional basketball player has admitted that he is gay, it is a good time to reflect on homosexuality in general. The newspaper in New Orleans, the Times-Picayune, ran a story called ‘Gay people are coming out … Continue reading
Democrats are Responsible for Black America’s Crises
Benjamin Todd Jealous is president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. NAACP is the oldest black civil rights group in the nation. And like almost everyone else in black America, Jealous and his organization … Continue reading
Update on Boston Terror Attack
The investigation into the April 15 bomb attack in Boston is now in a new phase. And if you want to see what police tyranny looks like, check out this video It shows law enforcement officials ordering people out of … Continue reading
America in Decline? Not Under Conservatism…
A commentary appeared in the Financial Times (ft.com) called America must manage its decline The author was Gideon Rachman who is a card-carrying lefty – Cambridge, BBC, Princeton, Fulbright Scholarship etc. The usual path to the Phony Baloney club. In … Continue reading
Democrat Immigration Plan is a Deception
As Nikitas3.com predicted, the Obama administration is ambushing the Congress with demands for immediate action on immigration. This is intended to rush the process through before we know what is really going on. Now we have yet another billionaire, the … Continue reading
Boston Bombing Reveals Upside-Down America
Immediately after the Boston terror suspect was captured alive, many in the Liberal Media began discussing what rights he would have in our legal system, whether he would be read his Miranda warning (“you have the right to remain silent” … Continue reading
Terror Bombing Proves Conservatives Right… Again
The outcome so far of the Boston Marathon bombing case is affirming us conservatives repeatedly. Oh, the Liberal Media were praying that the bomber would be a white, conservative, anti-government Tea Party type. ‘Let’s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber is … Continue reading
Liberals Shamelessly Exploit Terrorist Attack
Like any big news event – particularly a tragedy – the Democrats are seeking to exploit the Boston terror attack for maximum political advantage. Here are the many ways that they are doing it: *As we already know, media liberals … Continue reading
Boston Attack Exposes Myriad Democrat Failures
The Boston Marathon bombing has exposed the failure of liberal policies on many levels. *First, here is a shocking report from dailymail.co.uk: Barack Obama's administration has cut the budget nearly in half for preventing domestic bombings, MailOnline can reveal. Under … Continue reading
Obama Policies Paved the Way to Boston Bombing
In the hours after the April 15 bombing at the Boston Marathon we conservatives anticipated the worst. We assumed that the internet, the media and the Democrats would light up with accusations that the bombing was perpetrated by a gun … Continue reading
Obama ‘Asylum’ Excludes White European Christians
It seems like just about anyone can claim political asylum in America these days. And it seems like the poorer they are, the better. And the less they look like Americans the better. But boy, if you happen to be … Continue reading
Taxes Tax You Over and Over
Social Security in 2010 spent $577 billion but only took in $544 billion, the first time in the 70-year history of SS in which outlays exceeded dedicated revenues. That shortfall was just in Social Security, never mind the rest of … Continue reading
US Needs Broad Social, Economic Reforms
Think about the debates over both guns and the federal budget and you see a similarity. It is this: *We already have tens of thousands of gun-control laws on the federal, state and local level but they did not stop … Continue reading
‘Iron Lady’ Margaret Thatcher… in her own Words
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, the ‘Iron Lady’ who was the only woman ever to serve as British prime minister, passed away on April 8 at age 87. (Baroness is a political title.) Lady Thatcher carved out her place in history by … Continue reading
Do Feminists Represent ‘Women’? No
After a spate of sex attacks in Brooklyn (New York City), police warned women against wearing short skirts. Because the attacker was said to be targeting women in short skirts. And get this – the feminists in Brooklyn got angry … Continue reading
Entrenched Poverty is Spiking Under Obama
Over and over we hear about the brilliance of Obama. But it is a false intellectual brilliance. It looks great on paper and he sounds smart and his media friends adore him, but in reality the nation is in dire … Continue reading
Greek Economic Crisis has Silver Lining
There often is a silver lining to a crisis. And after nations collapse as a result of socialist policies they can reform themselves and become capitalistic in order to save their futures. This is happening today in many countries including … Continue reading
Artworks by Nikitas
Some of My Own Artworks… by Nikitas (Please check back occasionally for new work. New postings will be at the bottom of the page. Last updated April 4, 2013) Besides being a conservative commentator, I am an artist. I studied … Continue reading
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Failing Public Schools Must be Challenged, Privatized
The K-12 public education system in America has a $550 billion annual budget and more than 3 million teachers. It is rife with failure and corruption. If the oil companies sold tens of millions of gallons of bad gasoline in … Continue reading
Sexual Diseases Running Rampant
CNSNews.com reported recently: According to new data released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 19.7 million new venereal infections in the United States in 2008, bringing the total number of existing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) … Continue reading
Obama, Democrats Exploiting Newtown Tragedy
Barack Obama and the Democrats are pressing for much stronger gun control legislation in the wake of the Newtown killings. Democrats all over the country are exploiting the tragedy, even posing repeatedly with gun violence victims. Reported foxnews.com: The president, … Continue reading
Could Cyprus-type Bank Account Seizures Hit the US?
Here’s a disturbing item from sfgate.com, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper: Alameda County (California) supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business — rewarding County Administrator Susan Muranishi with the … Continue reading
Did You Know that Hitler was a Communist?
Over and over we hear certain things about history, “facts” that have become accepted. One is that Adolph Hitler and his nazi regime were ‘fascists’ and that they despised communists like Stalin in the Soviet Union because fascism is somehow … Continue reading
Democrat Suggests Radical Minimum Wage Hike
The Christian Science Monitor (csmonitor.com) recently reported about US senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts: Should the minimum wage be $22 an hour? That’s what … Warren …suggested at a recent hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor … Continue reading
Gay Culture is one of Exclusion, Not Inclusion
A male college student recently admitted to his father that he is gay. The student is the son of Republican US senator Rob Portman of Ohio. Senator Portman now says that he supports homosexual marriage. Oh, come on, senator! Your … Continue reading
Facts about Fuel Efficiency
OK, friends, here we go again. Barack Obama is saying that we need to “end our dependence on foreign oil” and is urging the development of more fuel-efficient vehicles including the electric car. First here are a few facts to … Continue reading
Ex-Follywood Starlet is Planning US Senate Run
The one-time Follywood actress Ashley Judd is said to be preparing to run as a Democrat for the US Senate in Kentucky in 2014. She is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and is a big-time liberal political activist, … Continue reading
Conservatives Wow CPAC Gathering
At the recent 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) a series of excellent speakers offered insights into American politics from the “right” side of the issues. They assured the audience that the Democrats’ 2012 election victory is not a trend. … Continue reading
Arts: The Art of Maple Syrup
Spring is just around the corner and that means one thing: It’s maple syrup season in the Northeastern United States. If you never have savored real maple syrup – if you only have had so-called pancake syrup or commercial brands … Continue reading
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Who are These ‘Environmentalists’?
Have you heard about ‘fracking’? It is a system of ‘hydraulic fracturing’ which is a process that has been around for decades. In fracking, chemicals, mud and water are pumped into wells drilled deep into the ground to fracture the … Continue reading
Defamation of Conservatives is the 1960s All Over Again
The persistent Democrat party/media defamation of conservatives and the Tea Parties has its roots in the 1960s. After all the Tea Parties are a true middle-class movement. And if you recall, the socialist left and the ‘hippies’ of the 1960s … Continue reading
US President Coolidge: An Economic Giant
Amity Shlaes is a conservative commentator who delivered an address in January 2013 at Hillsdale College in Michigan about one of her favorite subjects – Republican US president Calvin Coolidge, who served from August 1923 to January 1929. Here are … Continue reading
Here We Go Again on Terrorism
Foxnews.com recently reported: A top Al Qaeda spokesman who is the son-in-law of Usama bin Laden has been captured overseas and charged in the United States with conspiracy to kill Americans, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday…. …(Republican US senators) … Continue reading
Democrats are Waging War on Rural America
Foxnews.com recently reported: NEW YORK—A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can't explain. The latest research found that women age 75 and younger are dying … Continue reading
Failed People Blame Others for their Problems
YouTube has a video about the deaths of famous people. One segment concerns the 1994 suicide of the rock musician Kurt Cobain of the band Nirvana, which founded the music movement called ‘grunge’. That very term ‘grunge’ explains everything, friends. … Continue reading
Why So Few Blacks in US Senate?/ Hugo Chavez is Dead
Democrat US senator John Kerry was recently appointed to be Barack Obama’s secretary of state, replacing Hillary Clinton. This means that Kerry’s Massachusetts US Senate seat is now open. Kerry was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and was … Continue reading
Capitalism, Common Sense Will Solve Global Crisis
After World War II labor unions represented as much as 40% of the private US labor force. Today that number is 7%. So what happened? Well, if you go on strike or otherwise harm or destroy your employer as unions … Continue reading
Marijuana Legalization is a Terrible Idea
If you want to know why drug legalization is folly just look at what is happening in Colorado which legalized marijuana in November 2012. Here are excerpts from an Associated Press article called Pot tourism in Colo.? Marijuana regulators OK … Continue reading
Liberals Openly Embrace Media Violence
There was a shocking commentary recently by a film critic named Betsy Sharkey in the Los Angeles Times (from latimes.com) called Critic's Notebook: Movie violence must not be stopped Unbelievable. That title says it all. The Democrat left wants this … Continue reading
We Must Cut Spending to Spur Economic Growth
The proposed “sequester” to cut federal spending automatically by $85 billion appears to be as frightening as a Japanese godzilla movie. In a highly-publicized action immigration officials even released several hundred illegal aliens from custody in expectation of budget cuts … Continue reading
How Will History Judge Obama?
Obama’s popularity is above 50% in several major polls despite the fact that America is in terrible shape. The dismal statistics are well known – 47 million on food stamps, real unemployment of 12% to 20% depending on how you … Continue reading
‘Environmentalists’ Trash Mount Everest
According to a mountaineering documentary there are 200 dead bodies on Mt. Everest, the world’s highest peak. These are the bodies of people who have perished trying to climb to the top. The dead are all dressed in non-biodegradable winter … Continue reading
The (Socialist) Rich Get Richer
Look at this from businessweek.com to better help you to understand the Democrat party: It hasn’t drawn much attention but Facebook’s first annual earnings report contains an accounting gem: a multibillion-dollar tax deduction for the cost of executive stock options … Continue reading
US Population Shifts Should Help Republicans… but don’t
Massachusetts Democrat US senator John Kerry has become secretary of state in the Obama administration. This leaves Kerry’s Senate seat open. Yet there is hardly a prominent Republican in the entire state of Massachusetts, with 6.4 million people, who wants to … Continue reading
Celebrating George Washington… in his own words
On February 22 we celebrate the birth in 1732 of the first American president George Washington. We all know the many stories of Washington who is one of the greatest political figures in world history. But his actual words show … Continue reading
Can ‘Art’ Save Detroit? (No)
There is an organization in Detroit called The Heidelberg Project that is sending “artists” into a few of the city’s ruined neighborhoods to turn them into “art”. These “artists” turn derelict houses into “artworks” by, for instance, painting big, colorful … Continue reading
The Real Reason for our ‘Infrastructure Crisis’
Thehill.com, the website of the congressional newspaper in Washington, DC called The Hill, recently reported: Outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood … lamented the amount of infrastructure spending that was approved by Congress during his tenure. LaHood placed most of the … Continue reading
Liberal War on GOP Senator Marco Rubio Continues
Marco Rubio is a handsome, well-spoken Republican US senator from Florida. He is hispanic and he poses a threat to the Democrats because he could attract many hispanics to the Republican party. He has been talked about as a potential … Continue reading
North Korea’s Communist Maniacs Rattle Sabers… Again
North Korea is rattling its nuclear sabers again, threatening the US with missile attack. This is typical of a communist regime – armed, militarized, threatening, violent, destitute. Below is an editorial from Nikitas3.com posted after the death of North Korean … Continue reading
Conservatives Should be Concerned about Hillary in 2016
Imagine that the United States votes into the White House a president who once was associated with people who had bombed black churches or gay night clubs. Well, we already have. Obama was definitely associated with domestic terrorist William Ayers … Continue reading
Media Violence Causes Real-World Violence
Media violence is ignored by our mainstream media as a cause of real-world violence. This is so that “the gun” can always be blamed. But media violence is the principal cause of real-world violence. Here are just a few examples: … Continue reading
Media Exploit Every Event for Political Purposes
We had a huge snowstorm in New England on February 9. It caused the usual problems including power outages. So what. It is Winter. Big deal. Depending on what happens it could be a story for a few days or … Continue reading
Racial Prejudice Against White Americans is Flourishing
Did you see the 2013 Super Bowl? Did you notice how ‘black’ it was? Huh? Well, let’s see… Beyonce, the halftime performer, is black. Jennifer Hudson, who sang with the schoolchildren, is black. Alicia Keyes, who sang the national anthem, … Continue reading
Arts: Was Alexander Calder always Great?
Imagine that you are a great baseball player at the end of your career. And that magically you are able to get everyone to remember only the best moments and to forget your poor performances, hitless World Series appearances and … Continue reading
Cars, Planes and Buses Serve Us Well – Passenger Trains Don’t
What nation has by far the biggest and most efficient railroad network on the planet? We are trained to reflexively think that the answer certainly is Germany or Japan or even China. But the answer is the USA. Our freight … Continue reading
The Truth about the GOP Election Loss
After the November 2012 election loss Republicans are looking introspectively and trying to figure out what went wrong. The Liberal Media are having a field day reporting on the dispirited GOP. Republican governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana even said bluntly … Continue reading
Media Cover Up for Obama as Economy Sinks
The US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fell by .1% in the fourth quarter of 2012, proving what we conservatives have been saying all along – that Obama policies are undermining the economy long term. This is the first GDP decrease … Continue reading
Democrats are Executing Immigration ‘Ambush’
Barack Obama and the Democrats are carrying out an ‘immigration ambush’ strategy. This means that they are seeking to ram through an immigration bill at the same time that they are trying to rush though other significant legislation on guns, … Continue reading
Conservatives Favor the Middle Class, Obama Does Not
Barack Obama recently said that his "one mandate" in a second term is to help middle class families. Yet here are the facts from MSN.com: … median household income in November 2012 was $51,310 — $3,850 lower than when Obama … Continue reading
Women in Military Combat is a Crazy Feminist Idea
OK, folks, it’s official. The US military is in the process of allowing women to engage in front-line combat. It probably won’t actually happen for a long time, if ever, but the legal restrictions are now falling away. Here is … Continue reading
Why Liberals Can’t Figure Out What is Wrong
I was talking to a liberal recently and he asked me casually, “So what do you think needs to be done to fix the economy?” I was stunned by such naivete and I answered directly, saying “We need to get … Continue reading
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Japan Official’s Hard Truth about the Elderly
Here is an article from guardian.co.uk (the Guardian newspaper in Britain): Japan’s new government is barely a month old, and already one of its most senior members has insulted tens of millions of voters by suggesting that the elderly are … Continue reading
Conservatism Wins Debates Every Time
Between Spring 2009 and January 2011 the Democrat party had more power than any one party has ever had in America. We had a Democrat president, a Democrat majority in the US House of Representatives and 60 Democrat US senators, … Continue reading
Analysis of Obama’s Inaugural Speech
Here are excerpts from Obama’s inaugural address of January 21, 2013 with a Nikitas3.com comment after each. The speech was full of conservative language (patriotism, reverence for hard work and for the Constitution etc.) that Obama exploits in order to … Continue reading
‘Green Energy’ Does Not Work
Environmentalists talk constantly about creating a “sustainable” energy supply. Whenever you see the word “sustainable”, however, watch out. It really means “government control” and “planning” by a left-wing university/political/enviro elite. In fact the most “unsustainable” thing of all is ‘green … Continue reading
Colleges are Finally Facing Fiscal Reality
Over the last 30 years college costs have skyrocketed at three times the rate of inflation. Despite ongoing calls for reform and even one congressional investigation the universities have demanded and gotten steep increases every year. The reason is simple: … Continue reading
Alarmingly, the Debt Ceiling Debate is Back
The debate is heating up again over raising the federal debt ceiling in order to allow more borrowing. Only unified House Republicans can block the increase. If it is blocked then Obama and the Democrats cannot spend another $1 trillion+ … Continue reading
BBC Sex Abuse – Shocking but Hardly Surprising
Here is an amazing story from MSN.com about a now-dead TV host on holier-than-thou, government-funded, left-wing BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation): LONDON – The late British TV presenter Jimmy Savile, honored by both the queen and the pope, sexually assaulted hundreds … Continue reading
Arts: The Lights of Grand Central Terminal
These are photographs that I took on a recent visit to New York City when I passed through the spectacular Grand Central Terminal. I call this group 'The Lights of Grand Central' since it focuses on the myriad types of … Continue reading
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Hurricane Sandy Aid Must be Reduced
Cities and towns in the New York City area suffered damage in Hurricane Sandy of October 29, 2012. Now the federal aid package for the region is becoming controversial. Democrats and Obama are calling for a whopping $60 billion, some … Continue reading
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Only ‘Builders, Makers and Givers’ Can Save America (and the world)
A socialist ideology of ‘taking’ is ruining America and the world. There are growing numbers of people who are ‘taking’ while fewer and fewer people are working hard and ‘building’, ‘giving’ or ‘making’. Or as conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh often … Continue reading
‘Global Warming’ Fakery Continues
MSN.com recently reported that: …2012 was the warmest year on record in the contiguous United States, according to scientists with The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And of course we are all supposed to panic because of ‘global warming’ (GW). … Continue reading
The Truth about the 2009 Bailouts
Remember the taxpayer bailouts of 2009 including TARP, AIG, General Motors, Chrysler and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? We were told over and over that Wall Street and the private banks caused the economic collapse and that the bailouts were … Continue reading
Smart White Men Should be Praised
How many times have we heard the Democrats and their media cronies characterize Republicans and conservatives as “angry white males”? Over and over we hear it. But no, friends, the truly angry people in our society are liberals. That is … Continue reading
Liberals Scream about Guns, Ignore Reality
Here is an excerpt from a column about guns by ultra-liberal black columnist Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. These types of comments are all over the media these days. Guns do kill people. Our national New Year’s resolution must … Continue reading
The Truth about Obama’s 2nd Term
Second presidential terms are always problematic. And now after his re-election Barack Obama must return to reality. He was not re-elected by a huge margin because everything is hunky-dory. He does not have a “mandate”. He won a second term … Continue reading
San Francisco Kowtows to the Homeless
Sfgate.com, the website of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, reported: …complaints from tourists about panhandlers have skyrocketed. And if something isn't done, the problem could damage (San Francisco’s) No. 1 industry – tourism. Gee, really? Homeless panhandlers are repulsive to … Continue reading
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Fiscal Cliff Deal is a Sham
OK, folks, the Fiscal Cliff budget deal is done. And the Republicans were snookered because some of them played along with the Big Spenders in the Democrat party as they have for decades. Here are excerpts from washingtonpost.com about the deal that … Continue reading
Happy New Year… and Wishes for a Better 2013
Happy New Year to all. Let us pray that 2013 is better than 2012. The re-election of Barack Obama, made possible with the votes of millions of idle and dependent people, should be a warning that America is headed in … Continue reading
Arts: Those Beautiful Women
I was visiting YouTube recently. I wanted to watch a video of a beautiful woman since I am a man and an artist and since I spend a lot of time thinking about what creates beauty. So I looked up several … Continue reading
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2012 – A Troubling Year for America
The death of retired Army general H. Norman Schwarzkopf on December 27 marks one of the last straggling newsworthy events of a very difficult 2012. Schwarzkopf was the tough-as-nails commander who conceived of and flawlessy executed a famous military maneuver … Continue reading
2012 in Review: Einstein Debunked
On September 18 I wrote an essay about new scientific theories that could contradict those of Albert Einstein. The commentary is here
Postal Workers on… a Hunger Strike?!
There was an item in the news shortly before Christmas that six unionized postal workers were staging a hunger strike to oppose the plan to cancel Saturday mail delivery. A hunger strike?! What a joke. I always thought that hunger … Continue reading
2012 in Review: Liberal War on the Family
On June 21 I posted a commentary about how liberals are mounting a war on the nuclear family. It is here
Democrats Thrive as Nation Falters
Here is what former ABC News honcho Sam Donaldson said recently (italicized for emphasis): The minorities re-elected president Obama… It's the Tea Party and thinking of the Tea Party and people like that that are driving the Republicans out of … Continue reading
NRA is Right About Gun Violence
Here are excerpts from an Associated Press article about the Connecticut school killer Adam Lanza (italicized for emphasis): He liked tinkering with computers and other gadgets, and seemed to enjoy playing a violent video game, choosing a military-style assault rifle … Continue reading
Feminist Says There’s “good rape”…
Trick question: Who said, “If it was rape, it was good rape.” Oh, that must have been that right-wing Republican out in Missouri who was running for the US Senate and who lost. No, this is a line from a … Continue reading
Obama Agreeing to Social Security Reform? No.
Look at this from Associated Press about the Fiscal Cliff negotiations: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's offer to slow the growth of Social Security benefits would force fellow Democrats in Congress to abandon promises to shield the massive retirement … Continue reading
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Environmentalists are Out of Control
Environmentalists are completely out of control. As usual. What else could you expect from America’s worst demagogues. These people never rest. Their fabrications grow and grow and grow. And forget about the ecology. That is just a front. These enviros … Continue reading
Conflict Brewing in the GOP
The announcement by conservative Republican US senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina that he is leaving the Senate to take the helm of the Heritage Foundation rocked the political world. DeMint is considered a stalwart of the conservative movement and … Continue reading
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Tagged DeMint, John Boehner, Nikki Haley, spending, taxes, Ted Cruz, Tim Scott
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‘Single Mom’ Enabled School Killings
As Democrats seek to pin the blame for the Connecticut school shootings on the freedom to own guns, they are ignoring the true source of the problem – the single mother, Nancy Lanza, who allowed her crazy son to have … Continue reading
Violent Culture Nurtured by Leftist Media
(This editorial was already prepared for posting when the Connecticut elementary school killings occurred. It has been updated.) Here is a recent news story from Associated Press: PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The gunman who killed four family members on a … Continue reading
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Americans are Moving to Conservative States
There is a trend in America today that blows the lid off of all of the political rhetoric – Americans are moving en masse out of liberal states and into conservative states. After his recent victory we are told that … Continue reading
SPECIAL: How Liberals Sabotaged Health Care
There is something really dreadful happening as a result of ObamaCare. Corporate CEOs and business owners are being criticized, harassed and threatened on the internet because they are concerned about the costs of ObamaCare and are making business decisions that … Continue reading
Congratulations Michigan… State Moves Boldly Against Unions
Republican governor Rick Snyder of Michigan has signed right-to-work legislation, a huge blow to American unions in the birthplace of the United Auto Workers. Michigan unions used strong-arm tactics to oppose the bill which restrains union power in order to … Continue reading
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War on Marco Rubio, Christians Heats Up
Here is an excerpt from CNN.com: (CNN) – Republican (US Senator) Marco Rubio of Florida attempted to clear up …his controversial answer to a question about the earth's age last month. "Science says (the earth) is about 4.5 billion years … Continue reading
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Look Behind Unemployment Numbers for the Truth
Beware of the numbers that show the “official” unemployment rate falling in November. Here is the summary paragraph from the website of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the government agency that reports the monthly numbers: Total nonfarm payroll employment … Continue reading
Fiscal Cliff, Debt Crises Can be Solved Easily
Once again we are all supposed to run to our legislators and urge them to vote to raise the federal debt ceiling so that Obama and the Democrats can borrow more money and give it to their friends. But refusing … Continue reading
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Capitalist Efficiency is Our Greatest Asset
Capitalist efficiency is our greatest economic asset. It always has been and always will be. ‘Efficiency’ means that economic and social structures are geared toward the most cost-effective paradigms that produce the most output for the least input of three … Continue reading
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Welfare State is a Failure; Conservatism is the Answer
Dailycaller.com recently reported: The government spent approximately $1.03 trillion on 83 means-tested federal welfare programs in fiscal year 2011 alone — a price tag that makes welfare that year the government’s largest expenditure, according to new data released by the … Continue reading
Liberals Seek to Undermine Prosperous, Moral Utah
A crowd of 3,000 people stripped to their underwear and ran through the streets of Salt Lake City in Summer 2011. The event was organized by a liberal group that opposes the conservative nature of Utah’s social culture under the … Continue reading
It’s A Wonderful Life… if you’re a Democrat
You probably have heard about or seen the movie It’s A Wonderful Life, the film about an idealized American town where the good guy George Bailey (played by Jimmy Stewart) is preparing to end his life after his family’s savings … Continue reading
You Know that You are a Conservative If…
You know that you’re a conservative if… by Nikitas You cross the street to avoid health-food stores. You are married – to someone of the opposite sex. You were definitely born in Hawaii. You know who killed Andrew Breitbart. You … Continue reading
Romney Should Establish ‘Shadow Presidency’
Mitt Romney recently attended a 90-minute lunch meeting at the White House with Barack Obama. What happened at that meeting? What was the point of Obama inviting a recently-vanquished presidential candidate to the White House so soon after the election? … Continue reading
Republicans Must Not Jump Off ‘Fiscal Cliff’
The Republican party is at a crossroads. If it does not stand firm on its principles it simply will become Democrat Lite and the nation with wither under socialism. The negotiations over the Fiscal Cliff scenario are heating up. It … Continue reading
Environmentalists Encourage Intrusive Youth Culture
In an article on the conservative CNSNews.com website called EPA Celebrates ‘Children’s Health Month,’ Encourages Recruiting Students for ‘Energy Patrols’ at School, Penny Starr recently reported: (CNSNews.com) – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is celebrating Children’s Health Month …by providing … Continue reading
American Blacks are the Privileged Elite
American blacks today are the most privileged people in our nation. Consider Michelle Obama. She got a free scholarship to Princeton University. And she got it after her own brother got a scholarship to Princeton. Yet if you recall liberals … Continue reading
Egypt is Disintegrating, as Predicted
There is growing turmoil and disintegration in the Middle East. Here is a recent excerpt about Egypt from the Jerusalem (Israel) Post at jpost.com: Protesters stormed the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood's party in Alexandria… throwing chairs and books into … Continue reading
We Conservatives Do Everything Well
We Republicans and conservatives took a big hit in the recent US presidential election. But we retained the majority in the US House of Representatives and now hold 30 governorships out of 50. And those conservative states with conservative governors … Continue reading
Democrats Deceive Us Over the Economy
If you want to know where Obama socialism is going just look at two recent media commentaries. First here is Paul Krugman, the far-left columnist for the New York Times: … in the 1950s incomes in the top bracket faced … Continue reading
Liberals Gloat as America Sinks
Liberals and Democrats are still gloating over their election day victory. It is everywhere and it is shameful. Several blacks have called the Sean Hannity radio show giddy over Obama’s win. They don’t even understand how ignorant they sound. There is an … Continue reading
What Happened to the GOP?
The Republican party is being criticized over its election loss on November 6. This is no surprise. Political power is cyclical. But Republicans can be happy over retaining the US House of Representatives by a big margin and by picking … Continue reading
Here Comes Thanksgiving/Christmas Pity Party
The so-called Holiday Season is upon us. The word ‘holiday’ is a contraction of the words “holy day”. And it is time once again for the American media to rev up its annual Pity Party for all the poor and … Continue reading
Conservatives Care More About ‘Women’ than Liberals Do
Democrats and liberals claim over and over that Republicans and conservatives hate women, that conservatives want women barefoot and pregnant, that they want women uneducated and kept out of power etc. Yet how does that explain that so many women … Continue reading
Election Review: How Obama, Democrats Won
If you want to know how Obama and the Democrats won the 2012 election you should have been in the small city of Keene, New Hampshire where I was on election day. I was standing at a polling place with … Continue reading
Many Election Predictions were Wrong… Here’s Why
Many sources including Nikitas3.com predicted a Romney win in the November 6 election. Major media figures including Fred Barnes, Dick Morris and even the notoriously level-headed Michael Barone predicted a Romney victory. Even the Romney campaign was optimistic because many … Continue reading
Arts: Professor Janson’s Big Art History Book
For anyone who has immersed himself or herself in a one-semester college survey course on the whole history of art, you probably have owned or come into contact with a copy of H.W. Janson’s History of Art, A Survey of … Continue reading
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Election Review: Do We Need a Conservative Party?
After the Romney loss there have been calls for establishment of a Conservative political party. This is normal. Some conservatives feel betrayed by the Republican party after such a loss. But a splinter party of conservatives is not necessarily the … Continue reading
Everyone Must Pay Taxes, Including the 47% Who Don’t
Mitt Romney was recorded in a private conversation saying that the 47% of American wage earners who pay no federal taxes will reflexively vote for Obama. And he is generally correct, although his numbers are very soft. And we should … Continue reading
Election Review: What ‘Socialism’ Really Means
On the morning after the Obama re-election victory, a liberal was talking on a radio show. She sounded hispanic and she was very happy. When the host asked her what she specifically wanted Obama to do she said that she … Continue reading
A Sad Day for America
The re-election of president Barack Obama is a bad omen for America. With the economy in crisis Obama was re-elected by a wide margin in the electoral college. Oh, certainly the popular vote total was much closer and that is … Continue reading
Day of Decision is Here
Election Day is upon us. It is amazing how time flies. This is the most crucial election of our time. Four more years of Barack Obama will ruin America. Obama socialism is part of an international plan to submerge sovereign … Continue reading
Hooray for Post-Hurricane Price Gouging!
After Hurricane Sandy the issue of ‘price gouging’ has been in the news. In response John Stossel wrote an essay called In praise of 'price gouging' on foxnews.com. And of course we are all supposed to be shocked, shocked! that … Continue reading
Liberals Exploit Hurricane Disaster
In Massachusetts the final debate in the 2012 election contest between incumbent Republican US senator Scott Brown and Democrat challenger Elizabeth Warren was postponed from the evening of October 30, the day after Hurricane Sandy struck. Now look at this … Continue reading
Hurricane Barack Makes Landfall
Is Hurricane Sandy a fitting end to the Obama presidency? It certainly could be seen that way. Don’t you think that it is just devastating to the America psyche that Hurricane Sandy has hammered the East Coast after four years … Continue reading
Election Exposes Vicious Democrat Tactics
You can never know what Democrats are really like until you have participated in an election against them. I have been working up in Massachusetts for the re-election of Republican US senator Scott Brown and I am appalled at what … Continue reading
Issues That Have NOT Emerged in this Election
The economy has dominated the presidential campaign. Here are the issues that have not emerged this year that were expected by some to have been important: *Medicare: With the choice of Medicare reformer Paul Ryan as his running mate many … Continue reading
Christians Suffer as Middle East Burns
Barack Obama thumped Hillary Clinton in the 2008 presidential primaries, appointed her secretary of state in order to give ‘gravitas’ to his administration and now she has taken “responsibility” for the Libya terrorist attack which killed four Americans including Navy … Continue reading
Halloween Celebrates the Dark Side
Halloween is coming and it is time to think about what this ‘holiday’ means. Halloween has been attributed to ancient harvest festivals, to Autumn feasts, to Christian celebration of the dead or to the one day of the year when … Continue reading
Tax ‘Armageddon’ is Coming January 1
Look at this from Associated Press: WASHINGTON (AP) — A typical middle-income family making $40,000 to $64,000 a year could see its taxes go up by $2,000 next year if lawmakers fail to renew a lengthy roster of tax cuts … Continue reading
Suspicions Still Abound About Obama
An interesting subject recently came up in conversation: If Obama is so radical and has such a sketchy past, with even his college records being hidden away, why was he chosen to be put on a course to the White … Continue reading
Public Schools’ Double Standard
A Christian honors student at a public high school in Fort Worth, Texas was sent to the principal’s office for saying that he believed that homosexuality is wrong. Dakota Ary did not even make the comment in open class but … Continue reading
Media Sophistry on Auto Bailout
I, Nikitas, have decided as a conservative commentator to read washingtonpost.com regularly. Because in one convenient stop the Washington Post gives me 100% laughable left-wing sophistry by the boatload, tons of self-righteous gibberish to gleefully mock and debunk with one … Continue reading
Debate Was Feisty, but Romney Won Easily
Challenger Mitt Romney and president Barack Obama engaged in an unusually spirited debate Tuesday evening in which partisans on either side could claim victory. Neither participant had a gaffe, which often come to dominate debates, and so both sides could … Continue reading
Democrats Serving Foreign Interests
Look at this from foxnews.com. This is unbelievable: The Obama administration met with Mexican officials and held other events to discuss enrollment in food stamps and similar programs roughly 30 times since President Obama took office, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack … Continue reading
Media Bias Flowering; VP Debate Proves It
Psychiatrist Keith Ablow has suggested that vice president Joe Biden’s weird behavior during the October 11 debate with Paul Ryan shows that Biden may have the beginnings of elderly dementia. And that makes sense to those of us who found … Continue reading
The Obamas’ Materialist Mania
At a Manhattan fundraiser in 2011 Michelle Obama was reported to have been wearing $40,000 diamond bracelets designed by someone named Katie Decker. One news article said that ‘Michelle Obama's stylist picked up the bracelets at Katie's showroom’ in New … Continue reading
Hey, How About Those High Gasoline Prices!?
It is stunning to this observer how biased the America media are. Oh, sure, we know that they have been skewed to Democrats for decades. But today it is just beyond the pale. Hey, how about those high gasoline prices!? … Continue reading
Arts: A Gem of a Small Town Church
America’s Christian churches are some of our most special architectural treasures. From Old North Church in Boston to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City to thousands of churches across our cities, towns and villages, we often see a loving … Continue reading
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Sky-High Unemployment – The New Normal
Can you believe it? The ‘official’ unemployment rate dropped to 7.8% in September and Democrats are cheering. And it is important to remember that the 'official' rate would be 10% if the so-called "Bush tax cuts" were not still in … Continue reading
Democrat Voter Fraud has Reached the Pentagon
In a shocking story on foxnews.com called Military ballot requests down in key battleground states it was reported that: Requests from military voters for absentee ballots have dropped significantly since 2008, according to newly released statistics, prompting claims that the … Continue reading
Michelle Obama’s Healthy Lunches ‘Starving’ Kids
Townhall.com recently published an article called Complaints mount against Michelle Obama’s new lunch menu It reported that the “healthier” lunches being promoted by Obama are leaving students hungry. It is important to remember what Obama is doing – she is … Continue reading
Washington Post has ‘Faith’ in Atheism
An article called Atheism on the upswing in America in the washingtonpost.com ‘Faith’ section should be seen in light of another incident in which a Tennessee woman murdered two newborn sons whom she did not want to care for. Because … Continue reading
Liberal Media Sink Further into Parody (Part 2)
On September 21, 2012 the polling organization Gallup reported that U.S. Distrust in Media Hits New High, Fewer Americans closely following political news now than in previous election years And considering that Gallup is a Democrat-leaning poll that has strongly … Continue reading
Presidential Debates Will Reveal the Truth
The Liberal Media are going crazy reporting polls that show that Mitt Romney is sinking and that Obama is surging to re-election. Don’t believe these polls. They are as biased as the media themselves are. Do you really believe that … Continue reading
Liberal Media Sink Further into Parody (Part 1)
Conservative radio talk-show host Sean Hannity has often said that “journalism died in 2008”. He means that the contemporary Liberal Media have become surrealistically biased. Indeed journalism has died. But Hannity surely has his decades all mixed up. We know … Continue reading
Football Referee Strike Exposed Union Greed
The referees for NFL football games were on strike over several issues, primarily over the shift to a 401K pension plan like most Americans have. The strike has now ended. But you would think that in these tough times that … Continue reading
‘Green Energy’ is a Total Fraud. Here’s Why…
These ‘energy saving’ ideas from environmentalists like solar panels, windmills and micro cars consume more energy than they produce or save and they subtract from our energy supply. Here’s how: Consider windmills. The enviros say, “Look! The windmill is spinning around! And … Continue reading
Obama Redistribution vs. Romney Growth
This presidential election certainly is coming down to the wire. And not just time-wise but ideologically. Everyone knew that this election would revolve around the terrible economy and now it is even more clear than ever. On the very day … Continue reading
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Dear Friends, If you would like to contribute to this site through PayPal, any amount is fine. I have worked more than five years building the site and have never earned a penny. Any contribution would be appreciated to keep … Continue reading
US Foreign Policy in Ruins, Including Syria
When White House press secretary Jay Carney confessed one week after the 9/11 attack on the US consulate in Libya that, “It is, I think, self-evident that what happened in Benghazi (Libya) was a terrorist attack,” it really showed how … Continue reading
How the Obama Depression Will Wreck Us If We Don’t Act
We all have seen black & white pictures of the great depression of the 1930s – lines of men waiting for food on city streets, dispossessed farmers, hungry vagabonds “riding the rails” across the nation looking for work anywhere that … Continue reading
Many Blacks Were Better Off Before ‘Civil Rights’
A man recently was beaten when he was discovered molesting a Texas rancher’s young daughter. The man died. Fortunately the rancher will not face homicide charges because the killing was accidental. The rancher was reacting viscerally in seeking to defend … Continue reading
Arts: Beauty and Mathematics
The Classical Greek sculptor Polyclitus said, “Perfection comes about little by little, through many numbers.” And he lived by his credo. The two legendary Polyclitus bronzes that have come down to us as marble Roman copies – Doryphorous and Diadumenos … Continue reading
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Romney is Correct About the 47%
Here is a quote from Mitt Romney about Obama supporters: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon … Continue reading
Albert Einstein Debunked
There was big news recently about a subatomic particle that is reported to be moving faster than the speed of light. According to Einstein’s theory of relativity this would be impossible. And now physicists are saying that if this particle … Continue reading
Snooki Shines with Her New Baby Boy
Ever heard of Nicole Polizzi? She is better known as Snooki, the breasty, pint-sized Italian Idol from Brooklyn who became famous on the trash-TV show Jersey Shore on MTV. Jersey Shore, which debuted in 2009, focuses on a group of … Continue reading
Obama Trips Over Middle East Crisis
This Middle East uprising is going to be Barack Obama’s political undoing. This will swing the election even more to Romney just as the Iranian hostage crisis fueled the campaign of Ronald Reagan against Jimmy Carter 32 years ago. Obama … Continue reading
Please Celebrate Constitution Day
Monday, September 17 is Constitution Day, the 225rd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787. Nikitas3.com proposes that our Labor Day holiday be cancelled and that the holiday be transferred to September 17 to … Continue reading
Angry Islam Invades US Campaign
Question: Which of the following technologies that the whole world uses today were invented in Islamic nations: Computers, electricity, the light bulb, the telephone, modern medicine, modern agriculture, satellites, radar, lasers, television, radio, advanced metallurgy, airplanes, jet engines, plastics, composites, … Continue reading
Egypt, Libyan Attacks Could Sink Obama
On the same day – September 11, 2012 – that a radical Muslim mob in Egypt attacked the American embassy in Cairo, Barack Obama let it be known that he would not be meeting with Israeli prime minister Netenyahu on … Continue reading
9/11, Hijacked
After I established Nikitas3.com in March 2007 I wrote a 9/11 editorial every September 11. They usually commented on new developments in the War on Terror, on Muslim violence or on some other aspect of national security. And after the … Continue reading
Arts: Toulouse-Lautrec – A Smile and a Wink…
Toulouse-Lautrec and Paris, an exhibition of prints, drawings and paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others at The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. (This exhibit was mounted in 2009 but is worth thinking about here.) Utter the name Henri de … Continue reading
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Previous Nikitas3.com posts that you will surely enjoy
There are now about 500 editorials on this site. Here are some direct links to past Nikitas3.com commentaries that you will enjoy. So please: Click here to read a SPECIAL Nikitas3.com essay about how conservatives can out-debate liberals about “the … Continue reading
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Republicans Thankfully are Reforming Election Laws
Washingtonpost.com reported that Republican lawmakers in many states are rewriting election laws ‘in ways that could make it more difficult for Democrats to win.’ Now look at the things that the Republicans want to do, according to the Post: They … Continue reading
Dem Unemployment Denies ‘Fair Shot’ to Millions
Another lousy jobs report. Oh, sure, employers added 96,000 jobs in August, but the new figures also show that 41,000 fewer jobs were created in June and July than originally reported. This is an economic rout. And then look at … Continue reading
Capitalist Savior of India Now Slandered
Washingtonpost.com recently reported: NEW DELHI — Indian’s prime minister Manmohan Singh helped set his country on the path to modernity, prosperity and power, but critics say the shy, soft-spoken 79-year-old is in danger of going down in history as a … Continue reading
Obama Speech, Picked Apart
Here are excerpts from Barack Obama’s convention speech, with a Nikitas3.com comment after each: Obama said: The first time I addressed this convention in 2004, I was a younger man; a Senate candidate from Illinois who spoke about hope – … Continue reading
Democrats Throw God out of Convention
The Democrats held the second evening of their national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday. Here are some highlights but first here is the most explosive event of the political season: After first omitting the word “God” from the … Continue reading