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Paul’s army won’t be easily broken
When Sarah Palin, during the post Iowa media spin feast, warned GOP leaders to not "marginalize" the Ron Paul supporters, she was looking ahead to the greatest challenge faced by whoever captures the nomination.
Obama fires the U.S. Army
BEVERLY HILLS - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama cut the U.S. military budget by $40 billion Thursday at his Pentagon briefing. The cuts include tens of thousands of U.S. ground troops. It's the first indication that the war with Iran won't take any longer than the flight time from Germany. The CIA is investigating if the White House leaked film of the Osama bin Laden kill to Steven Spielberg for a movie. ...
It's still early in the game
Iowa caucus results show it's still early in the game and nothing's certain. So what happened on the way to the Republican presidential nomination? Well, even with a slim official win, Mitt Romney did no better in practical terms this year than he did four years ago in 2008 because of the level of competition. This proves that the road to the 2012 nomination will be anything but smooth, and that he has a tough ...
Safety belts please: 2012 will be rough
The first of every year, we encourage you to look around, set some goals and live intentionally.
Let someone else be in charge this year
It's time for my fifth annual New Year's Day tradition where my readers and I get to take a different kind of look at the big picture of our lives.
Why we need better BS in 2012
Here's something we can do with less of in 2012: BS. It's all over television, in magazines and in newspapers and even in our serious papers, such as The New York Times. It is spouted by politicians and pitched by product spokesmen. Modern life is manufacturing an unprecedented amount of it. BS "is unavoidable whenever circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about," writes Harry Frankfurt, philosopher emeritus at Princeton University, ...
Say it isn't so, Tarzan
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Tarzan's pet chimpanzee, Cheetah, died at the age of 80 on Wednesday. Everyone adored the lovable chimp. The people in North Korea who were shown crying during Kim Jong Il's funeral procession Wednesday had just been told the sad news about Cheetah. Titanic Memorial Cruise sold out two cruises in April that will duplicate the Titanic's original crossing 100years ago. That's not all. Fannie Mae just announced ...
Life's incredible for Brent and Dan
This time last year, we wrote about Brent Tiede, a 1991 Great Bend High School graduate who had just received a new heart. The successful transplant was done at St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
It's all about family
I write this final column for 2011 during a momentary and much-needed reprieve from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. When your family is spread across the country like pinpoints on a map, during holidays, your vehicle and body seem to be in a competition with each other as to which one will wear out first.
Ron leads -- for today
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Ron Paul seized the lead in the Iowa polls for the first time Thursday, replacing Newt Gingrich at the top. Every four weeks Republicans overthrow their leader. It's a trick to win voters from Central America by looking the most like their governments back home. President Obama enjoyed a five-point jump in the Gallup Poll Thursday in his largest weekly approval gain. No one thought he could ...
It is OK to NOT worry this Christmas
This is a quiet Christmas. There's been so many of the details of everyday life to take care of that I haven't had the time to run downtown to the Bean in Chicago and hear caroling. I haven't been to the Kris Kinder Market and strolled among the rows of hundreds of handmade glass German ornaments. I also didn't make it to the Walnut Room in Macy's, or as it's still known to long-time residents, ...
Harry Reid is an embarrassment
For the past three years the United States Senate, under the leadership of Obama toady Harry Reid, has been an embarrassment for the United States.
We're down on Congress right now
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Congress got an all-time low approval rating of 11 percent Tuesday in the Gallup Poll as the House adjourned for Christmas. There's only one upside. In three years Anthony Weiner will get to tell his child he's an Internet flasher and not a U.S. Congressman. Tim Tebow's winning streak inspired a national craze called "Tebowing" Monday. You drop to one knee briefly and bow your head. Tim ...
Kansas has new growth industry
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Kansas regulators on Tuesday approved a 3,500 mega-watt transmission line to carry wind farm electricity from Kansas to Indiana. The governor said it'll create a lot of jobs. Ambulance drivers should make a lot of money driving electrocution victims to burn wards during tornado season. Forbes magazine said the six members of the Walton family who own Wal-Mart have a net worth equal to the poorest 30 ...
Look out for the spy drones
Americans are familiar with unmanned spy drones providing surveillance of Iranian nuclear complexes and Taliban armed militants combating American troops along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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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?
