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Pampered protesters promote pollution
The hordes of so-called "protesters" now polluting the streets of several U.S. cities, including New York, are sending confused messages about their grievances.
America needs Solidarity
Love demands candor. Today, America is marred by growing inequality, constricting opportunity, and increasing social alienation. We are haunted by anxiety and insecurity about the future. And we have become so atomized that we often feel powerless to do anything meaningful about it - a perception that gives rise to growing despair and desperation. Some on the right and the left have taken to the streets in protest. Despite their many differences, they share a ...
Welcome back to the Nixon administration
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Attorney General Eric Holder was criticized over Operation Fast and Furious Tuesday. The ATF deliberately sold guns to drug dealers. The guns are needed because of the drug trade, and the drug trade is needed because no one can make a living doing anything legal. President Obama was reported Monday to be isolating and brooding in the White House. He quits work at four, has dinner with ...
Whatever we want, we want it NOW
BEVERLY HILLS - God bless America, and how's everybody? Occupy Wall Street protesters entered their third week of New York park sit-ins this week following a march down Broadway on Thursday. Interviews with the protesters make two things very crystal-clear. They don't know what they want and they want it now. The White House backed the Occupy Wall Street protesters Thursday in statements by Obama and Biden. Democrats are now banking on the threat of ...
Save our books!
A protest by students at the University of Denver is eye-opening because of how it is being conducted, what it has so far achieved and, most of all, what it concerns.
Pull together or pull apart
There's an old curse that begs, "O that mine enemy would write a book." That's a desire getting a big play in the debates between Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who are both trashing my Dad Ronald Reagan's so-called "11th Commandment," that Republicans must refrain from attacking each other in public. Like just about everybody else I'm being wearied by both Mitt Romney and Rick Perry citing passages from each other's books to ...
Enough with all the baseball spitting
"Watching guys spit in the dugouts is not exactly a great thing to watch." Those understated words are the opinion of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, who hopes to see a ban on smokeless tobacco in the next MLB contract. This is partly an image thing but mostly an effort to end the cycle of players tacitly glamorizing tobacco for the impressionable youngsters who idolize them. The Centers for Disease Control report that in ...
Saudis learn that freedom isn’t free
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? Saudi Arabia sentenced a Saudi female driver to 10 lashes with a whip in Riyadh on Tuesday. Their tradition teaches that granting freedom of movement to women leaves them vulnerable to sin. Americans once believed the same thing and it sold a ton of girdles. New Jersey GOP Governor Chris Christie was begged to run for president by an enthusiastic crowd at the Reagan Library in Simi ...
Pakistan is still a problem
As America moves into the 21s century it faces an increasingly vexing problem: what's it to do about Pakistan? Is it friend or foe or an unacceptable combination of both? Is giving it sensitive information a national security risk?
Obama approval headed wrong way
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama got his lowest job approval numbers on Monday. Years ago during rush hour Michelle called him to warn him that a crazed idiot was driving on the wrong way on the freeway. Barack replied that he'd already counted about 400 of them. Sunset Boulevard was shut down Monday as Obama attended a fund raiser hosted by Steven Spielberg at the House of Blues. Everyone's used ...
Imagine if Bush had suggested this
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama told black Americans Saturday to take off their bedroom slippers and put on their marching shoes. What an insult. He's lucky the Secret Service pulled him away from the microphone before he banned them from the University of Mississippi. Obama committed a gaffe, telling a black crowd that a billionaire shouldn't pay a lower tax rate than a Jew, before correcting himself and saying janitor. ...
Forced 'charity' is not good
Some of my fondest childhood memories include times when my father and I served meals to those in need at our town's local Rescue Mission.
Now they tell us
Now they tell us. I speak of the erstwhile Obama supporters and admirers, in particular journalists, who are suddenly finding fault with our president. New York Times columnist David Brooks says he's a sap for believing Obama "when he said he wanted to move beyond the stale ideological debates that have paralyzed this country." Brooks is disappointed, you see. He had famously said, prior to the 2008 election, that Obama had a perfect crease in ...
How much things have changed
While searching the Internet last week, I stumbled upon a Google Archives article that made me chuckle.
He must be good at something
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? The Washington Post reported Monday that President Obama has begun brewing his own honey-ale beer at the White House. He's trying to save the taxpayers some money. The cost of catering a beer summit every time he ticked someone off was breaking the budget. The Chicago Tribune ran an editorial calling for Obama to step aside and not run for re-election, and let Hillary Clinton run. Both ...
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Keep Those Catalogs Comin’
What America needs is a good Productivity Boosting Nap Pod, a device that looks like a dentist chair with a roof. As luck would have it, this 310-pound unit, that "provides optimal ergonomics for napping," is available from Hammacher Schlemmer for $16,000. Dagwood Bumstead take note.
Even the bugs are getting audited
HOLLYWOOD-Happy Wednesday, everybody, and God bless America.
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?
