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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 ...
Faceoff isn't adding anything yet
YORK, Pa. - It's fitting that Pennsylvania is land of the pretzel - where "Pennsylvania Dutch" Swiss and German immigrants introduced the food to America in the 19th century.
LightSquared problem is no lie
Generally speaking, generals do not tell lies. Nor are generals in the practice of concocting stories before congressional committees.
Even Charlie Sheen is concerned
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? California's unemployment rate jumped to 12 percent in August in statistics out Friday. However, jobs were added in motion picture and sound recording. The voters are so desperate for someone to listen to them that they're actually paying for studio time. President Obama told a North Carolina crowd Wednesday if they love him they must help him pass his jobs bill. The president's emotion was real. Obama ...
Obama corruption is rampant
Corruption inside the Obama administration runs rampant. The list of scandals grows longer by the moment, with a new one popping up at an ever increasing rate. However, the Republican leadership empowers the corruption by refusing to fight. They fear Obama and are resigned to waiting for the buzzer instead of stopping the madness. This week we learned of three more corpses resulting from Obama's operation Fast and Furious. This is the Bureau of Alcohol, ...
Stimulus bill wasn't all that stimulating
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama's job stimulus bill was jettisoned by House Democrats Wednesday because it taxes charitable donations. Everybody can read the tea leaves. Caroline Kennedy just released a recording of her mother saying Barack Obama can't be re-elected. Congress probed a stimulus loan to Solyndra solar power Wednesday. They took $500 million in taxpayer loans and the money just vanished. Solar power generates electricity by mixing the energy ...
It looks like we are being rushed
As the Democratic National Committee (DNC) launches an ad campaign in battleground states to promote rapid passage of President Barack Obama's "American Jobs Act," I cannot help but to ask: "Why the rush, Mr. President?"
10 years after, still remember 9-11
Recently, I was reminded of the value of freedom while attending a military retirement ceremony in Washington D.C. Driving down the hill after the ceremony, my soul was stirred as my eyes caught a glimpse of the late-summer sun reflecting across the sea of white-washed stones at the adjacent Arlington National Cemetery - and wondered what it is that defines a person who is willing to give his or her life in exchange for freedom.
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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.
