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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. ...
Cain turns heads in Vegas
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? The GOP presidential candidates clashed in Las Vegas Tuesday in a debate that aired on CNN. Everyone in town adores Herman Cain when he walks through the casinos. Every time Cain shouts 9-9-9 all the slot players think they have won a progressive jackpot. Herman Cain swore Monday he was joking when he called on Tiger Woods five years ago to run for president. That's before Tiger ...
This should be considered abuse
In his new book, "Suicide of a Superpower," Pat Buchanan writes that the politics of race, culture and tribalism will be the largest problem civilization will face.
Prepare for the violence
Prepare for violence. We remember this crowd. The year was 1999 and the anarchists descended on Seattle to stop a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). We lived there at the time. Floyd was working as a host at Hot Talk 570 KVI, located in downtown near the "peaceful protests" of the meeting of WTO ministers. Seattle was excited because it was an opportunity to show the new high tech Seattle of the 1990's ...
Now he sends us into Uganda
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama sent 100 U.S. combat troops to Uganda Friday to help Uganda repel Christian rebels. It came as a shock to Americans. Everyone who bet that Iran was the next war had to buy a beer for everyone who bet that Africa would be the next war. The White House planned sanctions on Iran after foiling a terrorist attack. I ran tried to assassinate a Saudi ...
Suspended license a reason to worry
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2012 could be ‘oh no you don’t’ year
HOLDERNESS, N.H – Reports suggest New Hampshire voters haven't focused on the national politics invading their state yet, and it's hard to understand why.
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 ...
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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.
