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Why christmas has become better every year
I still wish I hadn't peeked in the attic that year. It was Christmas 1972 and I was 10. It was the first year when I no longer believed in Santa Claus. Until that point, Christmas had been a magical time for me. A few weeks after Thanksgiving, I would join with my father to pick out our tree. He'd wear his rattiest coat and work his mastery on the helpless Christmas-tree guy to knock ...
We still seek Peace on Earth
I heard the bells on Christmas day Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men. You're probably familiar with these words from the Christmas carol "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day." The words for this popular carol actually come from a poem penned by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow during a time of hopelessness for Longfellow and for the United States of America. In ...
We're more like Cratchit than Scrooge
Ever been stuck in holiday traffic fighting to be stuck in a holiday cashier's line so you can purchase low-price presents on your high-balance Visa listening to high-volume holiday music and think, "Why am I doing this to myself? I don't even really like Christmas. It's just a scheme to get me to gain more weight and gain more debt."
Obama is right on schedule
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama signed a bill extending tax cuts for the rich Friday. He hopes to win reelection by governing from the middle as Bush and Clinton did. Now all he needs to do is invade the wrong country or get caught in a sex scandal and he's in for another six years. Barbra Streisand led all movie stars in slamming President Obama for extending tax cuts for ...
It's hard to know which end is up -- Argus Hamilton
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama's health care reform law was ruled unconstitutional on Tuesday, setting back the liberal quest for government-run health care. There's a lot of confusion about ObamaCare. Democrats think it's a pill while Republicans think it's a suppository. Obama's health care reform provisions were deemed unconstitutional by a Virginia judge Tuesday. It's racial discrimination. When a black president slaps a tax on tanning booths it hinders a ...
Baby, it's cold outside -- Argus Hamilton
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? The Weather Channel reported a wintry blast of frigid Arctic air swept down into the South Tuesday. The mercury fell to single digits in South Florida. Last night it was so cold in Palm Beach that the fire department was advising residents to set their houses on fire. President Obama lit the White House Christmas tree Friday. He told the story which he said is dear to ...
Terrorist ruins life for comedians, too -- Tom Purcell
Julian Assange, the lead WikiLeaks perpetrator, has ruined my career. I write light, humorous pieces for a living - offbeat perspectives that offer a respite from everyday woes. Humor, says Webster's, is "that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous." It is "designed to be comical or amusing." There is no harder writing than humor writing. The humor writer toils for hours to achieve the perfect turn of phrase, the ...
Health bill is unconstitutional -- Argus Hamilton
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama's health care reform bill was ruled unconstitutional Monday by a U.S. judge in Virginia. It probably is. To the layman's eye it violates the Equal Protection Clause for a black president to impose a 10 percent tax on tanning booths. John Boehner broke down crying again Sunday in a CBS 60 Minutes interview. He's very emotional. Last week Congress voted to make April National Peach ...
Powers that be are sneaking in illegals
To understand Washington DC, you have to first stop listening to the rhetoric, and start watching the behavior.
Our kids may be dumb, but they're also violent
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? The Department of Education released a study Friday showing U.S. kids rank 25th in math, 17th in science, and 14th in reading. Our national security is not at risk, however. Our kids remain number one in violent video games by a huge margin. President Obama called in Bill Clinton Friday to make the case for his tax cut deal to angry and defiant House Democrats. They refuse ...
They pounded their little donkey hooves
BEVERLY HILLS - God bless America, and how's everybody? House Democrats erupted in anger at President Obama on Thursday over his tax cut extension and free trade deal and federal pay freeze. The liberals cursed his name in the Capitol. Ever since Obama joined the Ditto Heads he's become a man without a country. The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to keep the ban on gays in the U.S. military. Gay people want to be in ...
Pot keeps calling the kettle ‘black’
As the debate over taxes raged, one compromise the Senate rejected would have extended tax cuts for all Americans except those who are millionaires. In the words of the bill's author, Democrat Chuck Schumer of New York, "Do we want to extend those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires at a time of huge deficits? I would argue vociferously we shouldn't."
US doesn’t need new START
In 1976, I stood beside my father in Kansas City after he lost the Republican presidential nomination to Gerald Ford. I asked him why he wanted to be president of the United States.
Simple solutions aren't the answer .. Tina Dupuy
Out of ideas? Call for a "simple solution." Americans are now in a global economy. We're citizens of the world. We're engaged in delicate diplomacy made all too apparent by Wikileaks. Our markets are complex. Foreign markets are complex. Economics are complex. Communications are complex. In the last century we went from the horse and buggy to the Y2K buggy. Over 300 million people live in this country. A collection of recent and not-so-recent immigrants ...
Obama in hot water over tax cut -- Argus Hamilton
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama agreed to extend tax cuts for wealthy Americans Monday. It was pure political calculation. The president was hoping if he gave Rush Limbaugh $100 million the radio host might re-direct his fire toward Donovan McNabb. Obama explained his cave-in on taxes Tuesday by saying Republicans were holding the middle-class hostage. The president had to act. Jimmy Carter called and warned him the longer there are ...
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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?
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.
