Bean-Counters and Baloney
The bean-counters have struck again — this time in the sports pages. Two New York Times sport writers have discovered that baseball coaches from minority groups are found more often...
About: Dennis Behreandt
Posts by Dennis Behreandt
Real or Imagined? A Critical Review of the SPLC’s List of Conspiracies
The indefatigable Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), whose professed aim is "fighting hate and bigotry," and "tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups," has released another study of...
Teacher Funding Bill Hurts Businesses and the Poor
President Obama has signed into law an emergency appropriations measure intended to provide funds to stop teacher layoffs and to provide aid to financial strapped states. Critics charge, however,...
Wage Gap Widens Between Private and Public Sectors
According to a new study by the Cato Institute, the gap between the haves and the have-nots in the United States continues to widen. This isn’t much of a...
Cheering Immaturity
A graduating senior at Hunter College High School in New York gave a speech that brought a standing ovation from his teachers and got his picture in the New...
After Losses, Freddie Mac Wants Another $1.8 Billion
On the heels of dismal second quarter results, mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac is asking for more taxpayer money to continue operations. ...
Democrats Bite Democrats, Part II
Rumors of Congressional Democrats privately expressing disapproval of the Obama administration's actions and policies have been given more credence by such things as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's public criticism...
Democrats Bite Democrats
You expect Republican politicians to criticize Democratic administrations and vice versa. But when Democrats start criticizing Democratic administrations, that is news. Someone once said that the headline "Dog bites...
WikiLeaks Documents Reveal Extent of Pakistani ISI Activity in Afghanistan
Officials in the United States may be considering Pfc. Bradley Manning as a "person of interest" in their investigation into the leaked Afghan "war diary" made public by whistle-blower...
How Smart Are We?
Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history, often the same ideas and policies...
For BP and Transocean, Signs of Deadly Errors Preceded Explosion
According to British Petroleum, safety is always top priority. That's what BP Spokesman Robert Wine told CNN for a report on the Deepwater Horizon explosion for June 9. The...
Scientists Find Abnormally Large Star
A scientist working at the University of Sheffield in the UK has discovered the largest star ever found. ...
Obama and the Race Card Fraud
Credit card fraud is a serious problem. But race card fraud is an even bigger problem. ...
Gangs Still Active in US Military
Despite efforts to stop them, criminal street gangs have been active inside the U.S. military. And, according to one recent report, the situation has gotten much worse. ...
New BP Cap Stops Oil Gusher in the Gulf
Oil has stopped flowing into the Gulf in the wake of BP's installation of a new cap on its broken well in the Gulf of Mexico. ...
Facing Fiscal Meltdown, Municipalities Struggle With Pensions
Years of big spending by politicians at all levels have left the nation vulnerable to economic turmoil. While at the federal level this is masked to a degree by...
Santa and Frank
People who remember the old comic strip "Peanuts" will recall an often repeated situation where Lucy offers to hold a football for Charlie Brown to kick. Then, as Charlie...
The McDonald Decision and the Second Amendment
The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. The court found, in a 5-4 vote, that local and state authorities could...
Gun Control Laws
Now that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that the Second Amendment to the Constitution means that individual Americans have a right to bear arms, what...
The Mystery of Israel’s “Prisoner X”
Who is Prisoner X? That is the question being asked in Israel following the brief publication of a story about a mysterious prisoner by Ynetnews, the news website published...