Candidate For Dumbest Person Of 2014 Identified

Straight Talk
For the second straight year, Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha visited Politics and Prose, where the president left with an armful of books.

"Hope you can close Guantanamo," said one patron, referring to the president’s efforts to close the U.S. detention center in Cuba, which was opened in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks. (foxnews.com, 11/29/2014)

The year isn't over yet, but we think we have identified the Dumbest Person of 2014: this idiot is given the extraordinary opportunity to speak to the most powerful man in the world .... and asks about Gitmo. 


Hinged
As Republicans took control of an unprecedented 69 of 99 statehouse chambers in the midterm elections, they did not rely solely on a bench of older white men. Key races hinged on the strategic recruitment of women and minorities, many of them first-time candidates who are now learning the ropes and joining the pool of prospects for higher office.

They include Jill Upson, the first black Republican woman elected to the West Virginia House; Victoria Seaman, the first Latina Republican elected to the Nevada Assembly; Beth Martinez Humenik, whose win gave Republicans a one-seat edge in the Colorado Senate; and Young Kim, a Korean-American woman who was elected to the California Assembly, helping to break the Democratic supermajority in the State Legislature.

In Pennsylvania, Harry Lewis Jr., a retired black educator, won in a new House district that was expected to be a Democratic stronghold; he printed his campaign materials in English and Spanish. Of the 12 Latinos who will serve in statewide offices across the nation in 2015, eight are Republican. (New York Times, 11/30/2014)

So will the New York Times now stop repeating the lie that the Republican party is the party of old white men? We know that Democrats will continue to say this until - like the War on Women - it no longer helps them to win elections.


Shoe In
On the second of a three-day trip to Turkey, the pontiff removed his shoes before entering the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles embellishing its walls. After a tour of the cavernous 17th-century mosque, he stood alongside Istanbul Grand Mufti Rahmi Yaran, facing in the direction of Mecca, and bowed his head in long prayer. (Wall Street Journal, 11/29/2014)

Next up, the Grand Mufti will pray in a Jewish synagogue.

Just kidding!


The Math
The next Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, wants to make a ban on abortions after 20 weeks the law of the land. (New York Times, 11/28/2014)

And again - just to clarify - 20 weeks equates to 5 months. So McConnell would like to ban abortions after a baby is more than halfway developed. Liberals are outraged.