So it’s the first weekend of the holiday season, but frankly the holidays are the furthest from my mind. I’m off to Vegas next weekend to meet my Goodboys friends and a Saturn with 160K miles on it that absolutely needs to be replaced. the weekend after that. In the meanwhile:

The post at National Review Online’s Corner blog ought to be required reading by all Americans. I know I never cease to be amazed when I walk into the local Fry’s at the absolute bounty of choices we have when it comes to grocery shopping, and I don’t take it for granted either. As a nation and people we are truly blessed.

Funny (well not really) how you get a shooting anywhere near a Planned Parenthood location and the Left and its suck-ups in the mainstream media freak out, yet you get a Muslim knife attacker at a California university and you get nothing but crickets chirping from same. It’s too bad that liberals care more about the sanctity of their beloved abortion clinics than they do about the work that goes on inside them and the innocent lives snuffed out on a daily basis.

…and speaking of violence, Red State’s Sara Gonzales is right about the facts of the Laquan McDonald case when she writes:

Chicagoans should be angry as hell. Americans should be angry as hell- not only that this kind of gross misconduct happens far too often with police officers around the country, but that it took over a year for any charges to be filed because the corruption in Chicago runs that deep. No other person in the city of Chicago who shot another person on video 16 times would get to wait a full year before being charged; this is a privilege that extends only to cops.

Just don’t expect that anger (and the mainstream media’s focus) to be on the fact that Chicago’s power structure from top to bottom is 100% liberal Democrat (and majority African-American), and has been for decades. Democrats and inner-city African-American corruption go together like Vegas and showgirls.

I’m so glad this country stakes airline travel safety so seriously.