Category Archives: Current Events (More than 500 editorials)

For those old enough to remember, the Watergate scandal was dismissed as a minor incident by some partisans when it broke. Then it ended up sacking an American president. And this Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal could do the same … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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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 →

On September 18 I wrote an essay about new scientific theories that could contradict those of Albert Einstein. The commentary is here

On June 21 I posted a commentary about how liberals are mounting a war on the nuclear family. It is here

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 →

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 →

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’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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Look at this excerpt from a story about college costs from foxnews.com. It shows the polar differences between the two parties: WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama would make tax credits for college expenses permanent and expand Pell grants for students … Continue reading →

The Democrats’ national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina started on Tuesday under a cloud. Here are some highlights: The Democrat party chairman from California John Burton suspiciously departed Charlotte after saying that Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan sounds like … Continue reading →

Liberal Medicine works like this: Liberal doctors launch into regular public diatribes about the bad health effects of cigarette smoking and obesity. Then the same doctors are silent about the rampant disease and death among homosexuals; they say nothing about … Continue reading →

In an article from a black website called theroot.com black female commentator Keli Goff wondered ‘Does Paul Ryan's Black Ex-Girlfriend Matter?’ She opined: (The Root) — Shortly after it was announced that Rep. Paul Ryan would join the Romney ticket … Continue reading →

Here is an excerpt from a website called progressiverailroading.com which covers the railroad industry. This article concerns Norfolk Southern, one of America’s Big Four freight railroads that operates in the Eastern US: During a 2010 Nature Conservancy event in Virginia, … Continue reading →

Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan became the official nominee of the Republican party Wednesday night with a vice presidential acceptance speech that easily could have been a presidential acceptance speech. In an address that was interrupted more than 60 times by … Continue reading →

As a conservative I am tired of watching so many members of the Republican party cower before the Democrats and their Liberal Media allies. In 2008 we even had The Man Who Didn’t Want to be President. McCain actually could … Continue reading →

Several pro-atheist billboards were erected recently in Charlotte, North Carolina. They pictured Jesus and said: CHRISTIANITY: Sadistic God, Useless Savior, 30,000+ Versions of “Truth”, Promotes Hate, Calls It Love Atheism: Simply Reasonable Join American Atheists Another billboard attacking Mormonism called … Continue reading →

Joe Kennedy of the Massachusetts Kennedy family runs a company called Citizens Energy which gives low-cost or free heating oil to the state’s poor people. And when you look at the mechanics of the company you see it is just … Continue reading →

Democrats in America have been falling all over each other for years now to praise our “genius” secretary of state Hillary Clinton. But nikitas3.com has repeatedly criticized Clinton for being a weak secretary with little to offer but diplomatic platitudes, … Continue reading →

Chick-fil-A was all over the news just a few weeks ago. Yet today it has disappeared from the headlines. Because news today comes and goes rapidly in the 24-hour cable TV/internet news cycle. Chick-fil-A is the fast-food restaurant chain whose … Continue reading →