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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 ...
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?
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Mister, Mister
Here's a little game I invented the other day after phoning the water company to complain about my bill and hearing an overly-chipper woman say, "Hi, Peter. How may I help you?"
Father’s Day: Can It Survive?
My son Gideon (age nine) assures me that he will be a good father someday, but will that be an empty accomplishment? In another 20 years or so will there even be a Father's Day?
How Darrell Issa Undermines the GOP’s IRS Issue
Quick: someone call a chiropractor for California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa. He's overreached so far his arm may separate from his shoulder. Even some key figures in his party are suggesting he needs an adjustment. F-a-s-t.
You’re being audited, no joke
HOLLYWOOD--God bless America, and how's everybody?
The Games Behind the Olympics Games
Washington, D.C., is in the grip of scandals, the economy is stumbling and a host of other challenges are weighing me down - which is why I prefer to dwell on more obscure subjects, such as a battle raging behind the scenes over the 2020 Olympics.
Obama and the Media: Biting the Hand that Feeds Him
Since the Obama administration has confessed to spying on journalists at the Associated Press and Fox News, have you noticed there are more stories about the Obama scandals in the news?
What Is a Journalist?
As amateur news hounds gain power and influence through social media, the definition of "journalist" has ripened for philosophical debate. But now it's becoming a legal issue – one that could hamper efforts to protect the news profession at the very time federal lawmakers are awakening to the need to do so.
