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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 ...
Our new entertainment -- watching executions
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Moammar Kadaffi's body was placed on the hood of a jeep and paraded through Libya Thursday. The crowds went wild. The 18-year-old kid who killed Kadaffi was wearing a New York Yankees cap, and already he has more hits this October than Alex Rodriguez. President Obama announced Thursday that Moammar Kadaffi was killed by U.S.-backed Libyan rebels who shot him dead on the street. Americans are getting ...
Fill your hands, you dictator, you
BEVERLY HILLS - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama announced that Moammar Kadaffi had been killed by U.S.-backed rebel forces in Libya Thursday. You knew it was coming. Every president starts out intending to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner and ends up as Billy the Kid when his numbers start to drop. Kadaffi was killed by Libyan rebels in his hometown. There were photos posted on the Internet of his bullet-ridden body. ...
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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.
Business is Booming in Perry’s Potemkin Village
You can't change the facts of an explosion. A large fertilizer factory operated next to homes, a middle school and a nursing home. The factory blew, and 14 people died. We can't change those facts, but it's up to us to decide what they mean.
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Nation
As Mother's Day approaches, the political scene makes me think of an old spiritual: "Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child."
