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Look for the good in American life
Memorial Day is a time for reflection about the sacrifices of the many men and women who gave it all so that we could enjoy the blessings of Liberty.
We're terrified to take time off
"Ah, summer has arrived, which means the wife and I won't be taking any vacations again!"
We have to fight for the light -- still
I had to put my newspaper down the other day after reading an article about six brave soldiers who recently joined the ranks of the "forever young" after an improvised explosive device went off in Afghanistan May 26, 2010.
Stop thinking about speanding
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Congressman Anthony Weiner allegedly tweeted a below-the-waist photo of an aroused man in his underwear to his followers and couldn't deny it was a photo of himself. Of course it was him. For decency's sake, Democrats need to keep their pants on and their cellphone cameras off whenever they're alone in their office looking at a spending bill. The White House was revealed Tuesday to have doubled ...
Summer's in the heart, not on calendar
Forget the almanac. And the calendar. Forget whatever the weatherman or the newspaper or the next-door neighbor with the hair growing out of a mole shaped like the state of Delaware on his nose told you. The true worm-hole opening to summer is not the upcoming solstice on June 21; it's the last Monday of May, Memorial Day. Memorial Day: when the world alters unalterably for every kid and teacher across the land. By now, ...
Americans could have used that money
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? FEMA asked Congress for $2 billion in extra aid money due to tornadoes, flooding and blizzards. The need makes foreign aid look silly. There are five states in the Midwest who would've gladly housed bin Laden if they knew how fast that would get you $3 billion in aid. McDonald's chairman Jim Skinner refused calls to fire Ronald McDonald at the company meeting in Chicago Friday. He ...
Pizza man moves up GOP food chain
Herman Cain is quickly moving up the Republican presidential food chain. Just weeks ago he was virtually unheard of. Now, after a stellar debate performance, and several headline-grabbing statements, people are beginning to notice the talk show host from Atlanta. Herman Cain is fiscally conservative, talks a tough talk, speaks truth to power, and has never held an elected office - something many people count as a plus. His main claim to fame up until ...
Obama is way off on Israel
"You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you." - C.S. Lewis
We need to net Netanyahu
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a thunderous speech to a joint session of the House and Senate Tuesday. It had political consequences. Republicans immediately claimed that Bibi was born in Hawaii and anyone who doesn't believe it is a conspiracy theorist. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's DNA was found on the shirt of the maid who accused him of sexually assaulting her in his New York hotel ...
GOP may just “fuhgeddaboudit”
Yo, Chris Christie, governor of New Joisey, how ya doin'? What's this I'm hearin'? People are beggin' you to run for president and all you can say is "fuhgeddaboudit?" Well, you need to fuhgeddaboudDAT! Look, smart guy, you surely see what a mockery Republicans are makin' of their presidential nomination process. Yeah, it's early. But what's with Trump takin' the media for a ride? Fox News took the goof seriously. Here we got real problems, ...
It seems that we are in the Le Pew season
My only exposure to French culture as a child was Looney Tunes cartoons featuring the lecherous skunk, Pepé Le Pew.
Imagine there's no heaven
"Imagine there's no heaven/It's publicity-generating if you try." (With apologies to John Lennon).
Seniors rule, you Mickey Mousers
Can you believe they have benches? This year I had the privilege of presenting our family scholarship (Proffitt Family Scholarship) at the Russell High School senior awards ceremony. This was the first time in years I have had the opportunity to roam the hallowed halls of my alma mater. Sure, I had been back in the school for graduations and athletic events, but this was pretty much the first time I had been able to ...
It would be tough if we had a job
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? The Auto Club tried Monday to reassure Americans wracked by high gas prices and predicted that gas prices will fall 50 cents a gallon in the two weeks leading up to Memorial Day. Things aren't as bad as they could be. People would be totally unable to afford to drive to work if they had jobs. IMF president Dominique Strauss-Kahn was denied bail in New York Tuesday ...
Y'all ready for this?
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? South Carolina lawmakers introduced a bill Friday to allow gold and silver coins to be legal currency in the state as well as the dollar. It could pass. The only thing holding it back is whether the face on the coins should be Jefferson Davis or Glenn Beck. U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe saw the photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse Thursday. He said the bullet went into ...
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Obama Agenda Undermines Medical Innovation
Alzheimer's Disease costs the U.S. economy over $200 billion per year, about $140 billion of which is a direct federal budgetary cost to Medicare and Medicaid. On our present course, this cost will quintuple to $1 trillion by 2050. It is the major driver up the steeply rising health care cost curve. Given this context, the most important question for health policy is not the green eyeshade question of who-pays-how-much that has come to dominate ...
Welfare on Mars?
HOLLYWOOD-Happy Tuesday, everybody, and God bless America.
Learn from History
History is one of our greatest teachers.
Do We Still Need the Department of Education?
When executives of corporations are caught aiding and abetting criminal behavior of their employees, the executives are prosecuted and the businesses are destroyed.
American pravda, a nation of lawbreakers and Benghazigate
Louis Brandeis, who served on the United States Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939, once warned, "Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
Limbaugh, Kurtz and the Bum’s Rush
Big news for those who think there aren't consequences in our media when professional talkers cross the line, or when famous reporters mess up and don't fix their mistakes without qualification, or do so begrudgingly. We now see proof of the law of consequences.
Did something happen in Benghazi?
HOLLYWOOD--God bless America, and how's everybody?
Will Obama Beat the 6-Year Itch?
If the 2010 elections weren't bad enough for Democrats, here comes the "six-year itch." With the exception of Bill Clinton's second term, the party that controls the White House loses seats in congress six years into a presidency. But there's a gathering sense among Democratic consultants who work on congressional campaigns that their party could buck the trend in 2014 for a number of reasons, not least because Barack Obama is finally fired up and ...
No-Fault Internet Addiction
Online chat host: Good morning, cyber pals. As you know, the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), the psychiatric "bible," is to be released this month. It will include "Internet-Use Disorder" - also referred to as Internet addiction - as a condition recommended for further psychiatric study. Our guest today is Dr. Adam Von Cybercruncher, America's leading authority on Internet addiction.
