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It would be tough if we had a job
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? The Auto Club tried Monday to reassure Americans wracked by high gas prices and predicted that gas prices will fall 50 cents a gallon in the two weeks leading up to Memorial Day. Things aren't as bad as they could be. People would be totally unable to afford to drive to work if they had jobs. IMF president Dominique Strauss-Kahn was denied bail in New York Tuesday ...
Y'all ready for this?
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? South Carolina lawmakers introduced a bill Friday to allow gold and silver coins to be legal currency in the state as well as the dollar. It could pass. The only thing holding it back is whether the face on the coins should be Jefferson Davis or Glenn Beck. U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe saw the photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse Thursday. He said the bullet went into ...
Regulators try to rule American business
One of the shameful hallmarks of a dictatorship is the restriction of movement - telling citizens or groups they cannot travel or relocate freely.
Arson is getting too expensive
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? The Auto Club predicted Monday that gas prices at the pump could drop 75 cents a gallon by the start of summer. In Los Angeles, gasoline is approaching $5 a gallon. It's costing people $10 to burn down their houses for the insurance money. McDonald's announced a billion-dollar interior re-design in its U.S. restaurants. They will have leather chairs, muted colors, sit-down counters, flat-screen TVs, and Internet ...
Obama campaign swims in questionable gunds
President Obama had a busy week. After helping to eliminate the world's number one terrorist, Obama switched gears to focus on raising a record $1 billion in campaign contributions. Rather than capitalizing on bin Laden's demise by using an event to rally allies in a focused campaign to finish the job to root out bin Laden's more notorious associates - Obama is rallying supporters to donate their capital so he can build up his campaign ...
'Real' Americans still chart their own course
I know a fellow from Lebanon who is more American than most Americans. In 1977, when I was 14, I rode my bike, played ball with my friends and enjoyed a safe and happy American existence. During that same year at the same age, the Lebanese fellow I now know was dragging dead bodies into the street and setting them on fire. As civil war raged in his country - as Beirut was bombed every ...
We didn't start the fire
They got him. Put a couple of slugs in his face. Then they dumped his body in the sea - something for the fish, which don't much care what they eat, to feed on.
Eternal questions are still asked
Monday morning, when I found out that America's public enemy number one had met his demise at the hands of an elite military unit, my first unfiltered, reactionary words were, "That's great." It was a simple statement, devoid of much, if any, emotion.
Our economy is still tanking, folks
Obama Economy is Making You Poor By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown While Barack Obama spends his time running victory laps around the country over the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the American economy is careening toward a dangerous cliff. Royal Weddings, Obama's multiple birth certificates, and absurd arguments about the NFL lockout dominate the news while daily Americans get poorer. <p ...
We celebrate much, but not death
I will not cry. I will not shed a single tear. I will not mourn the father of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. But I refuse to celebrate his death. It disheartens me that many in our society have become so insensitive to the gravity of our actions, insensitive to what it means to assassinate or kill. I do not question the necessity of removing terroristic threats, only our reaction to the violence. Perhaps television, movies ...
Time to try a little gratitude
Osama bin Laden was killed at the age of 54 on Sunday, in the northern Pakistan city of Abbottabad by U.S. intelligence forces who had been tracking a courier that was known to live there.
Success started a long time ago
"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton
Target number one was even better
HOLLYWOOD God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama announced that U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden Sunday, then he gave himself credit for analyzing intelligence, organizing the mission and giving the kill order. The play didn't quite go as the president diagrammed. The intended target was Donald Trump. Obama ordered U.S. Navy Seals to chopper into Pakistan and kill bin Laden Sunday after discovering his hideout last fall. Why did he wait so long? ...
Sometimes you just need chicken soup
For awhile in 2005, I carried around a white, cotton handkerchief that was worn soft from use after my father, Dabney, died suddenly and quietly at the age of 81.
More than a chip off the old block
"I am blessed," said Great Bend artist Chet Cale earlier this week. He uttered these words with the utmost sincerity standing in the middle of his Stone Street Arts studio. As he spoke, a sun already defused by the clouds, flooded the room with a soft light. The larger-than-life-sized statue of micro chip innovator Jack Kilby and the statues of two children surrounded Cale, as did the eclectic collection of other sculptures, drawings, photographs, tools ...
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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?
