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Show me the money, honey
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Jay-Z began marketing "Occupy All Streets" t-shirts Monday to cash in on the Occupy Wall Street movement. He sells them for $22 but gives no royalties to the protesters. You know the revolution's over when the participants are making 10 bucks for every t-shirt and complaining about the 20 cents China charged them for the fabric. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to rule on the constitutionality of ...
Obama: Don't blame me
America's mainstream media is hard at work on the Obama reelection effort. Nonstop reporting on the Herman Cain allegations, the break-up of the European Union and Occupy Everything is quietly building a playing field or political environment to empower Obama's excuses.
Liberals want Pentagon’s ‘pot of gold’
On this Veteran's Day, 2011, our thoughts should turn once again toward our military, who find themselves busier than they have been in recent memory.
American dreams don't come easy
It's been getting to me, I must admit. Fifteen years ago, I bought my first house. I'd just started a freelance writing business and money was tight. An appraiser I knew told me about a fixer-upper in the country he had just assessed. He was confident I could get a good deal on it. Boy, was he right. See, the owner of the house, an elderly fellow, was a hoarder. The house was packed inside ...
Solar power -- unsafe and crooked
HOLLYWOOD - Happy Birthday Dad, and God Bless America. Congress subpoenaed White House records of the half-billion dollar U.S. loan to Solyndra solar company. Solar energy would mean no more oil spills, but that doesn't mean it's safe. California has proven that a sun spill can cause narcissistic personality disorder and an outbreak of plastic surgery. New York's Wall Street protesters tried to block the entrance to Goldman-Sachs. This was really dumb. These traders could ...
Vultures are circling White House
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Congress subpoenaed the White House to hand over all records of the Solyndra solar panel company loan. They lost a half billion in taxpayer money after they contributed to the Obama campaign. It's taught as the law of supply and demand in Chicago public schools. Herman Cain was hit by a third accusation of past sexual harassment Thursday. The accusations occurred when was the head lobbyist for ...
Cain is bad, Clinton was good
Reporter: "We're not going to get into details of exactly what happened." Fmr. Secy: "Not the Cain I know." Cain flashback: "I'm ready for high-tech lynching." Coulter: "They are terrified of strong, conservative black men." RUSH: 'Unconscionable racially charged attack." The stories behind these headlines illustrate why good people no longer want to run for the presidency of the United States. They immediately become targets of the left, which almost always pulls the race card ...
Protestors don't want free-loaders
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Occupy Wall Street protestors complained that homeless people have infiltrated the park for the free food. They're just furious about it. Everybody's sitting around wish that there was a way to help the downtrodden without a lot of losers trying to get in on it. Herman Cain denied accusations against him of sexual harassment in the workplace Monday. The country has been waiting for someone with Reagan's ...
Thomas smear campaign is turning 20
Twenty years ago this month Clarence Thomas was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Happy Halloween, everyone
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays of the year. It's simple, to the point and involves large quantities of chocolate. Decorations and planning don't start months in advance like Christmas and the cost of the candy won't break my budget. If I go all out and get the regular-sized candy bars at Costco I can even be a real hero in my neighborhood. There's nothing like the news passed from feverishly running pint-sized Batman ...
Secondhand smoke, meet secondhand TV
My wife and I took a certain perverse pride in how we handled television around our son - scrupulously not letting him watch for the first two years of his life.
Amnesty issue is still discussed
The House Judiciary Committee recently completed hearings that focused on President Barack Obama's deferred action plan to grant amnesty to 300,000 aliens previously designated for removal.
It's OK Adolf, honey, the court says so
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? A New Jersey appeals court ruled Tuesday that a family didn't commit child abuse by naming their baby boy after Adolf Hitler. The child is the talk of the town. The kid isn't 3 years old and already he can point to the characters on Sesame Street and tell which one is gay, which one is Jewish and which one's a gypsy. President Obama made new rules ...
The way Halloween should be celebrated
Not until it got dark! That was the trick-or-treating rule my mother set down every year. She didn't want me to embarrass her by interrupting families still having dinner. I hated the rule. Tommy Gillen and I had big plans to hit as many houses as possible before we had to come home. It was the 1970s, after all. Schools weren't yet banning Halloween activities. There was no kid obesity epidemic. There weren't many modern ...
Libyan ‘heroes’ celebrate violently
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Libya's new rulers put Moammar Kadaffi's body on display for public viewing in a meat freezer over the weekend. It's a happy ending in a way. Like most guys his age, Moammar Kadaffi grew up in the '50s wishing that he could be just like Ted Williams, and now he is President Obama got a three-point Gallup Poll bounce after Kadaffi was killed like he did when ...
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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.
Droning On
Put on your tinfoil hats everybody. Or didn't you get the memo? Its paranoia time in America again. Maybe it's the spring that brings out the crazy in our legislators. Of course, that would assume a semblance of sanity the other three seasons, and nobody wants to bet anything more than lunch money on that proposition.
FCC Must Run Honest Auctions
"America's global leadership in mobile, and the strategic bandwidth advantage so many have worked hard to create, is being threatened by the looming spectrum crunch," recently departed Federal Communications (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski said.
Will George W. Bush and A.J. Clemente Get Mulligans?
When should you give someone a mulligan? Should you give a former President a mulligan for a good chunk of his 8 years in office? Should you give a young broadcaster a mulligan when he doesn't realize his mike is on and he says words more suitable for a Chris Rock routine?
Out of the Closet and into Identity Politics
I've never sought the spotlight.
Come on guys, keep those doors open
Sunshine Week, the national initiative by journalists to assure that sunshine illuminates every crevasse in the halls of officialdom, runs March 10-16. During that week, newspapers traditionally run editorials and columns extolling the importance of open government as it relates to our freedoms as Americans.
