Washington Monument Shrinks

The ironic post of the day, from Fox News:

Government surveyors will announce on Monday that the official height of the Washington Monument on the capital’s National Mall has been revised downward by nearly ten inches.

The new measurement

Let me just say this about Kim Kardashian’s ass, otherwise known as Kanye West…

I consider it a measure of how far music in this age has sunk, that West is anywhere near the Grammy stage, much less trying to

Three Muslims have been murdered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and some clamoring for hate crime charges, from Times-News:

RALEIGH — As thousands of mourners prayed for the three Muslim-American students killed in Chapel Hill this week, the

1950, Harry’s (President Harry S. Truman) Marines, from Wall Street Journal

On Dec. 6, 1950, [1st Marine Division CO Colonel Lewis “Chesty” Puller] was ordered to break out of Chosin Reservoir and open an escape route to Hungnam port. The

NBC News has suspended Brian Williams without pay, effective immediately, from NBC News President Deborah Turness, via Dylan Byers, Politico:

We have decided today to suspend Brian Williams as Managing Editor and Anchor of NBC Nightly News for six

from Karen, Lonely Conservative:

Here’s some shocking news – Cuba has walked out on talks with the United States because the Castro regime isn’t interested in improving its human rights record.

Inspector Renault could not be reached for comment.

New York City’s finest, the New York Police Department are engaged in a work slow down and all the Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to care about whether he getting his full ration of respect, from Murray Weiss, DNAinfo:

The Sony Hack.  What to do?

Hat tip video: by William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection.

Dim Won and his regime has threatened a “proportional” response to the suspected North Korean, b/k/a Nork hack attack against Sony. How do you

Maybe, Kazuo Hirai, the CEO of Sony can explain to his share holders why he spent forty-four million dollars of share holders dollars on a movie he will not release, from Ace, Ace of Spades:

With the Guardians

In the wake of the imploded Rolling Stone story on an fictitious rape on the University of Virginia campus, New York State junior Senator Kristen Gillibrand ( D -New York) is still jousting  with imaginary enemies, from Chicago Tribune

This is known, Eric Garner was killed and New York Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo killed him.   Look up the video.  Yet on 3 December, a New York State grand jury no billled Garner’s killer.    Given that New York States defines

Chuck Hagel has  been shown the exit from the regime, from Doug Mataconis, Outside the Beltwey:

What is perhaps unusual about the way this story has broken, of course, is the fact that it is being made clear from

It is winter in Upstate New York and there are three feet of snow and everything closed from schools to the Thruway is harsh, nasty but yet heart warming.    There is a traditional feel of this is the way things

Dr. Martin Salia, late of Sierra Leone, has passed. Sorry to see Dr. Salia go, but he could just as well died in his native country. There is simply no rational to import infectious aliend i9to this county, from CBS

The late Brittany Maynard’s fifteen minutes of fame has expired:

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Brittany Maynard stuck by her decision.

The woman with brain cancer who revived a national debate about physician-assisted suicide ended her life Saturday by