Macy's needs a 12 Step Program for its Santas and soon

By Rob Janicki

Macy's seems to have a Santa Claus problem this year.  Macy's is having trouble keeping its Santas in line.  From the Daily Rash comes this hard hitting investigative journalism so lacking in today's left leaning Democrat propaganda machine we have come to know as the mainstream media (MSM)

Macy’s department store has fired yet another Santa Claus employee for being drunk at their Herald Square location in Manhattan, their fifth Santa termination since November 25th. A spokesperson for Macy’s said that two other Santas have been suspended without pay for three days and another was issued a verbal warning, all for consuming alcohol on the job...

Nathan Newton was the latest Santa to be let go. Newton ... was hired by Macy’s to work the weekend Santa shift. Macy’s terminated Mr. Newton on Sunday after a family saw him urinating in an alley behind the store. A Macy’s spokesperson said that normally Newton would have received a warning or suspension for drinking on the job but urinating in public was grounds for immediate dismissal...


It could have been worse.

Increasing legal gun ownership reduces gun violence by the criminally minded

By Rob Janicki

I can hear Ivy League liberals gagging and kvetching over this study already.

Harvard Journal Study of Worldwide Data Obliterates Notion that Gun Ownership Correlates with Violence

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy Confirms that Reducing Gun Ownership by Law-Abiding Citizens Does Nothing to Reduce Violence Worldwide...

States with concealed carry permit laws do have lower rates of gun violence for the simple reason that criminals don't know who might be packing heat at any place or point in time, but this is too much for liberals to comprehend let alone accept.  Like they say in Texas, "An armed society is a polite society."  My preferred manners in polite society include a Sig Sauer Pro SP 2022 in .40 caliber with a rail mounted red laser sight.  Nothing says, "I'm not going to be a victim", more, then painting some punk intent on mayhem with a red laser sight.

Now, a Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy study shows that this is not just an American phenomenon.  According to the study, worldwide gun ownership rates do not correlate with higher murder or suicide rates.  In fact, many nations with high gun ownership have significantly lower murder and suicide rates...

Read the cited article in its entirety at CFIF

The House has adjourned until after Christmas with no resolution of fiscal issues

By Rob Janicki

With the defeat of Plan B and the passage of a sequester replacement bill, as well as a $633 billion defense policy bill, the House has adjourned. Tonight (Thursday), the House Majority Leader’s office announced that the House concluded legislative business for the week; legislative business will continue “after the Christmas holiday when needed.” Big Government

Earlier this week Nancy Pelosi proclaimed with some fanfare that she would submit gun control legislation on Friday.  She must have been thinking she was still House Majority Leader.  

It certainly looks like there will be no resolution to the fiscal cliff impasse as there may not be enough time between Christmas and the new year to get anything through both houses of Congress and signed by President Obama.

House Majority Leader, John Boehner's job may be on the line among Republicans, especially the conservative Tea Party faction within the party.  I'm not certain how to read Boehner's mind, but it seems he may try and pin the whole sorry mess on Obama and the intransigent Democrats, especially Harry Reid in the Senate.  At this point in time I an inclined to willingly go over the cliff after the second Republican offer was rebuffed by Obama.  Let the Democrats feel a little pain for a change.

As I have stated in previous posts, this fiscal disaster, and any resolution to it, will be very complex and there no longer seems to be any need to rush into a bad deal or to be badgered by Democrats to do so.  Republicans, when in control of the House, have never agreed to raise taxes.  If the Democrats choose to let tax rates go up, they will have to face Republicans when Obama tries to increase spending.  That's when Republicans will have a fair chance to express their power of the purse.