April 13, 2023

Grifty City to hold the Democrat National Convention

Well, the geniuses in the Democrat party have made their bed in Chicago for the 2024 Democrat National Convention.  It will be interesting watching them try to lie in it.  What with the homeless sleeping in O'Hare National Air...

October 3, 2022

Here comes the October surprise!

The tactic described as the October surprise holds the juiciest fruits of opposition research until late in the election cycle.  The key is to save the reveal until it's too late to elicit an effective response.  With the mode...

August 2, 2022

Up next: Redefining 'depression'?

Joe Biden and his administration are good at two things: lying and transitioning.  Their latest attempt to redefine the word "recession" is downright scary.  It's obvious that the American economy is "transition...

October 7, 2021

Profiles in porridge

His name is Joe Biden. He is the emperor with no cognitive functioning. His pronouns are “Who, me?” He served as Senator from Delaware so long that the state motto is now: “Delaware-so close to Washington, D.C. you can smell...

April 27, 2020

Death by cabin fever

If we learn nothing else from the coronavirus hibernation strategy, we have confirmed the fact that if no one leaves his house, in the short term, fewer people die.  As any agoraphobic can tell you, danger lurks out...

July 17, 2012

Mr. Fix-it or Mr. Broke-it?

I find it remarkable that the done-nothing, rabble-rouser has the audacity to talk down to Mitt Romney regarding his business background: "We won't be apologizing... Mr. Romney claims he's Mr. Fix-it for the economy because of his business experienc...

July 8, 2012

Is Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. in Rehab?

Five to one says Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. has enlisted for an extended stay in a rehab facility. Jackson went missing from his Congressional duties on June 10 and hasn't been seen since. The initial explanation was "exhaustion." ...

June 27, 2012

Obama's Fairness

I've listened to Barack Obama whine so long about fairness that I think my tympanic membranes are bleeding.  B.O. wouldn't know fairness if it walked up and grabbed him by his cuppy ears, unless of course fairness had a wad of hundred dollar bil...

June 13, 2012

It's hard out there for a jihadi

Now would not be the best time to be a cave or hut-dwelling proponent of Islamo-fascist terrorism. Barack Obama may be falling miserably in public opinion, but his supporters still fancy B.O. as some sort of avenging sky-god, raining death from the s...

June 2, 2012

Obama paying the price in Black community for gay marriage support

Obama 's dissipating support among Catholics, women, the young, suburbanites and Jews has been copiously noted, even in the lap-dog palace media. The unintended consequence of B.O's calculated, cynical cash-grab from Hollywood types and wealthy ...

May 31, 2012

Rather scoops Chavez's health report?

HDnet's Dan Rather has published what appears to be a scoop about the continued failing health of Venezuela's meat-headed leader, Hugo Chavez. The reporter, formerly known as Hoss, back when he used to have friends, claims he has been informed by a "...

May 30, 2012

Romney and Obama: The gratitude divide

One of Mitt Romney's personal traits that goes unmentioned in the Obamedia is his humility.  Much like Ronald Reagan, Mitt has that "aw, shucks" kind of modesty about himself and his accomplishments that is particularly appealing when contras...

May 26, 2012

'Creeps for Obama.'

The leftist media continues to lift rocks for the Obama campaign in search of whatever may crawl out and endorse the foundering President. He surely needs help. Abandoning the pandering President are Catholics, women, southern Democrats, Jews and ...

May 23, 2012

Obama's Challengers as strong as Eugene McCarthy was

The depth of dissatisfaction with Barack Obama manifests itself clearly in the President's struggle to dispose of what should be nothing more than nuisance candidates in state Democrat primaries. While the palace media would like us to believe that O...

December 6, 2011

NFL hypocrites hire the Venereal Girl

The selection of Sean Penn's ex-wife as the star performer for the half-time show at Super Bowl XLVI is so wrong-headed that it could appear have been made by Mr. Penn himself.  Madonna's success in the music industry is exceeded only by her fla...

November 23, 2011

Occupy Decay

As the Democratic Party sideshow describing itself as Occupy (Your Town Here) pitifully unwinds in a torrent of whiny sniveling, we are presented with a clear picture of this gaggle of unwashed freaks from the Land of Misfit Boys. It seems the group ...

November 11, 2011

Gay marriage too holy for satire at New Yorker Magazine

Perhaps The New Yorker magazine wasn't really familiar with the work of comic artist Robert Crumb when they commissioned him to design a cover illustrating gay marriage. Crumb's Rabelaisian underground comic books included Mr. Natural, all 16 issues ...

November 7, 2011

It's either all right or it's Allred

Herman Cain fans should be grateful that he has had some batting practice, fending off the suspiciously timed rehash of charges of sexual harassment blown up by Politico and their pals over the past week. Citizen Cain is about to be presented with a ...

October 4, 2011

Roseanne channels Robespierre

Just when you thought the Democratic Party was in total disarray and ready to join the Whigs, the Free Soil Party, and the Know-Nothing Party on the ash-heap of American history, along comes a fresh face to enchant their base. The American leftist pa...

October 3, 2011

Herman Cain pulls race card on Rick Perry

The Washington Post's attempt to "macaca" Rick Perry generated a racialist response from a surprising source. Stephanie McCrummen's ham-handed effort to smear the Texas Governor relied on hearsay, anonymous cloudy recollections of events from nearly ...

September 7, 2011

When 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' actually means life or death

The Iranian news agency ISNA reports the hanging deaths of 3 men convicted of having homosexual sex. Apparently that keeps the nation free of homosexuals as the nation's fearless leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, reported that there are no gays in Iran. I...

September 6, 2011

Obama's writing problem

Like most Americans, Senator Jim DeMint (R-NC) has heard enough telepromptered blathering from the Pre-emptor-in-Chief: Frankly, I'm so tired of his speeches, it's going to be hard for me to watch....We need a plan in writing, he needs to send it to...

September 3, 2011

Underwhelmed by Huntsman

Anyone who caught a glimpse of Jon Huntsman's underwhelming performance during the Iowa debate recognizes that Obama's former ambassador to China doesn't even qualify as an empty suit.  Heir to a fabulous fortune, Huntsman has had the luxur...

August 31, 2011

Obama's new egghead

If you are in need of a good laugh, take a gander at the Bloomberg editorial lauding Obama's selection of "eminent labor economist," Alan Krueger to head his Council of Economic Advisors.  As if what our country needs right now is another big Ob...

August 25, 2011

Unemployment: A clear case of cause and effect

Ever wonder why Dick Durban and Rahm Emanuel haven't joined the attack on Rick Perry regarding the generation of jobs in Texas? It seems every other frightened Democrat has taken turns piling on.  Perry has developed a potent policy mix of low t...

August 17, 2011

Obama vs. Perry in a nutshell

Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard uncovered a quote from Texas Governor, Rick Perry, that distills the essence of the consistent, conservative approach that forms the basis for his efficient management of our most successful state: Government is...

August 16, 2011

Class warfare: It won't happen here

I just made a friendly $50 wager with a conservative associate of mine that Obama will not be re-elected in 2012. I can't think of a wiser investment or one more certain to pan out. The basis of my friend's belief that B.O. will get a second term, ho...

August 3, 2011

Environmentalists give pass to eagle-killing windmills

Greenies love their wildlife, and go ga-ga over eagles. But they are willing to overlook horrific raptor carnage caused by windmills.  According to Louis Sahagun at the L.A. Times, windmill farms have been decimating bird and bat populations nat...

July 30, 2011

Peggy Noonan's Dear Barack letter

America is clearly over its B.O. infatuation. Even Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal can't get far enough away from Barack Obama fast enough to make us forget her former support for him. But she couldn't be more forceful in her denunciation of ...

July 28, 2011

AOL begins its Arianna era

On Monday, AOL's purchase of the Huffington Post was finalized. Not coincidentally, the company's stock sank to its lowest price ever. The stock fell about 4% on Monday, ending about 33% below its 12 month high.  Seeking to revitalize its sorely...

July 18, 2011

Obama, the taxman cometh

The grim determination with which Barack Obama and his minions continue to pursue tax increases for Americans brings to mind a story told of Mulla Nasruddin, a satirical Sufi sage thought to have lived in the 13th century. The tale is told of a tax c...

July 14, 2011

What's to like about Obama? An exercise in graciousness

According to those who consider themselves our intellectual superiors on the left, we conservatives lack civility and graciousness in our assessment of the feckless head of their party, Barack Obama. There is no such thing as constructive criticism f...

July 8, 2011

Did Obama's father want to give him up for adoption?

The cold-heartedness occasionally demonstrated by Barack Obama by his willingness to throw friends (Van Jones), associates (Jeremiah Wright) and even his grandmother under the bus when they no longer suited his purposes has been duly noted in the ...

June 28, 2011

The Chris Wallace insult to Michele Bachmann

There's no way that the chuckling, aw-shucks apology proffered to Michele Bachmann in a web-video by Fox's Chris Wallace makes sufficient amends for smearing the candidate in their interview on Fox News Sunday. Registered Democrat Wallace gave Ob...

June 23, 2011

More B.O. Than Anyone Can Stand

America has gotten a steady whiff of B.O. emanating from the White House and its environs for two and a half years now, and even those notoriously asnomic leftists closest to our foundering President are holding their noses. Obama's devoted followers...

June 16, 2011

Why is this man smiling?

Perhaps his legal entanglements seem less arduous now that Anthony Weiner has temporarily supplanted John Edwards as the Democratic Party's most despicable heterosexual. The former Democrat Veep nominee has been unsuccessful thus far in plea-bargaini...

June 9, 2011

Commies on parade

Two generations after the communists began to seriously infect the American public education system, communists proudly flaunt their leftist idealism and hatred for all things traditionally American. Two generations publicly schooled to be more "sens...

May 29, 2011

Michelle Obama's high staff turnover

Here's a shocker: Michelle Obama has trouble keeping staff. Despite the effort by Julie Mason and Amie Parnes to soft-peddle their Politico report regarding the high turnover rate on the FLOTUS's staff, the message comes through loud and clear.The fi...

May 18, 2011

Food Stamp Millionaire

If you have any uncertainty regarding the responsibility for the nearly bankrupt status of the state of Michigan and its cultural and philosophical epicenter, Detroit, take a gander at the state's food stamp program. Sarah Jones at politicususa provi...

May 8, 2011

Ahmadinejad associates arrested for being 'magicians'

Among the most hawkish of modern military threats is to bomb another country back to the Stone Age. Well what if your opponent already lives in a virtual Stone Age? Those wacky Iranians, despite their ability to sick the murderous jihadi hordes upon ...

April 27, 2011

Gawker shouldn't mess with Texas

Those smarmy elitists at Gawker.com have outdone themselves in an article belittling a bill just passed by the Texas state legislature. It seems that Texans, through their elected representatives, have decided that any state-funded university that ...

April 23, 2011

Rapist to get $800,000 heart transplant

While the logic supporting Obamacare rests upon the obvious fact that health care costs are too high for Americans and continue to rise, here's a story to help illustrate the bureaucratic thinking that keeps those costs escalating: 13WHAM News h...

April 17, 2011

GM: A loose nut behind the wheel

There is no more appropriate metaphor to describe the flailing hybrid corporation known as Government Motors than that provided by the report of a Chevy Cruze owner hurtling down the freeway when the steering wheel came off in his hands. At leas...

April 6, 2011

Rand Paul tests the presidential waters

As the field for the Republican presidential nomination rounds into form, it is becoming clear that the traditional standard bearers for the GOP aren't bearing up well under Tea Party scrutiny. Dominated by a raft of losing 2008 also-rans, the Republ...

March 20, 2011

Kill the pirates - Save the Unions: Donald Trump

Donald Trump's sound-bite test run for the Republican presidential candidacy continues in a short interview with Jason Mattera at Human Events . The Donald offered up some red meat for no-nonsense conservatives regarding the Somali pirates while appe...

March 16, 2011

NFL player spokesman: Playing for owners like 'slavery'

I have to admit I have trouble mustering up any sympathy for striking NFL players. The league minimum wage for players starts at $295,000 annually with the average player collecting about $1 million per year as reported in 2009. Although I am a huge ...

March 11, 2011

Stop government funding of La Raza

As we observe the baby steps being taken by the newly elected budget-cutting Congress of 2010, we are coming to realize how absurd the old Washington political approach of throwing money at our problems is. The remarkable capitalist engine driving ou...

March 9, 2011

Some helpful suggestions for the Democratic senate campaign committee

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, chaired by Patty Murray of Washington, needs your help. As John Bresnahan reports at Politico , the queen of the whisker-thin, adjudicated victory is appealing to the public for help in developing a new D...

March 2, 2011

Farrakhan: Middle East style rebellion coming here

Just because local Chicago hustlers Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have graduated from the Windy City laboratories and taken their community organizing shell games off to Washington, D.C. doesn't mean that the Chi-town leftists have ceased being li...

March 1, 2011

The Polecat of the Senate

Despite concerted resistance from the most politicized Justice Department in the history of our great nation, Judicial Watch was finally successful in getting the full FBI files  regarding Teddy Kennedy released:Our tough fight with the Obama ad...

February 27, 2011

Gov. Daniels walks back comments about Dem fleebaggers

After a considerable amount of blowback over Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels cuddly response to the flee-bagging Indiana Democrat legislator's run-and-hide strategy to avoid facing the consequences of their electoral defeat in the 2010 mid-terms, Dani...

February 23, 2011

Mitch Daniels caves

Today Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana dealt a serious blow to his chances for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, when he caved in to the walk-out by Democrats in the Indiana House over a controversial right-to-work bill. Beth Schneider...

February 19, 2011

Questions surround Sen. Lugar's residency in Indiana

Following in the hallowed tradition of Hillary Clinton and Rahm Emanuel, it appears that Hoosier native Senator Richard Lugar's long tenure in Washington D.C. has helped him morph into a bit of a carpetbagger. Although pettifogger Lugar retains an o...

February 14, 2011

Boehner's job to be PR flak for Obama?

Get a load of this video featuring David Gregory harassing House Speaker John Boehner over the fairly commonly held belief that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Why do our conservative leaders put up with this nonsense? Gregory's "questions" are m...

February 12, 2011

Obama Agonistes: A view from across the pond

In order to get intellectual clarity, it is sometimes required that we step outside of our homegrown comfort zone and examine the thoughts of pundits who are somewhat more disinterested. While the typical scrum of Fleet Streetists and liberal moaners...

February 10, 2011

Lugar still waving red flag at Tea Party

The bombast and bluster emanating from the office of Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana suggest that he knows he's going to have a fight on his hands to retain his seat. Lugar, current king of the RINOs in the upper chamber, is clearly unwilling to give u...

February 5, 2011

Bannering: Obama's latest gift to the unions

With public opinion increasingly critical of overpaid and under-performing labor unions, one might expect that union members and their representatives would be keeping a low profile while mounting a public relations campaign to repair their well-earn...

January 29, 2011

How about we win the present, Barry?

Leave it to a utopian socialist barely tethered to reality to suggest that a campaign to "Win the Future" should begin with an emphasis on technologies proven as failures long ago. Obama is so stuck on the green leftovers on his plate from ...

January 26, 2011

Fed utility bills: We'll leave the lights on for ya

One can understand the fact that federal bureaucrats earning an average of 33% more than their counterparts in the productive sectors of the economy might have America's fiscal panties in a wad. A report from WUSA Channel 9 in Washington, D.C. helps...

January 25, 2011

Draft Olbermann for Senate? (updated)

Here's an idea that couldn't possibly go wrong: the Daily Kos liberal base fringe is already gearing up a grass roots campaign to "Draft Olbermann" for the Connecticut senate seat being vacated by Joe Lieberman. Combining the squishy foreig...

January 20, 2011

The lexicon of stupidity

The English language is constantly evolving. To meet the need for terms to describe technological innovations, the steady influx of immigrants adding an international flavor to our patois, and sometimes just the political free-for-all of our demo...

January 16, 2011

Regressive greenies

Just two generations down the ecological path our hippie brethren first stumbled upon in the 60's, the proponents of deep ecology continue to radicalize the environmental movement and promise to return us to what they consider the halcyon days of the...

January 15, 2011

When heroes are shown to have feet of clay

This is how a dynasty begins? With the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library releasing loads of JFK archival material, Maureen O'Connor at Gawker.com provides us with a snapshot of the 35th American President's application to Harvard. It would be har...

January 13, 2011

Is Donald Trump running for president?

If he could get a hat to fit over his unusual tonsorial arrangement, The Donald would be tossing it into the ring for the 2012 Presidential race. A masterful public relations manipulator, Donald Trump brings enormous business experience to the table,...

January 8, 2011

Indiana tea party targets Lugar in primary

At least Evan Bayh was sufficiently in touch with popular Hoosier opinion to recognize that his jig as Senator from Indiana was up. Decades of sucking up to the liberal Washington media and social establishment, however, has rendered RINO Dick Lugar...

January 2, 2011

A different media strategy for GOP governors

The weasels and propagandists of the now trickling rivulet media are discovering that newly elected Republicans, infused with the principles and energy of the Tea Party movement, are not your father's Republicans. Where Republicans used to get sucked...

December 26, 2010

Bush bio outsells Clinton's

President George W. Bush's recently released memoir,"Decision Points" ...has sold an astonishing two million copies since it was released in early November-and it's not even in paperback yet....published in both hardcover and e-book form, (...

December 23, 2010

Time for the Obama Cabinet Shuffle?

Amidst suggestions of Presidential triangulation following the shellacking endured by Barack Obama and his allies in Congress during the 2010 mid-term elections, few signs of movement toward the political center emanate from the B.O. White House....

December 22, 2010

Joe Lieberman's true colors

Am I the only one who remembers all the pious hogwash about the possibility of Joe Lieberman caucusing with the Republicans after the mid-term Republican victories last November?  The only Republicans old slippery Joe has been caucusing with are...

December 10, 2010

Michael Moore checks into fat farm

It appears that the poster boy for the Democrat party has finally decided to take action against inflation. The inflation of his repulsively corpulent body that is. The Leni Riefenstahl of the modern Democrats, Michael Moore, was spotted in attendanc...

December 8, 2010

Hall of Fame turns down Community Organizer

When fully immersed in the joy of following our favorite sporting heroes and teams, it's easy sometimes to lose track of the fact that most sports writers are first and foremost, journalists. Most of them matriculated from university journalism mills...

December 5, 2010

Lindsey Graham: Conscience of the RINOs

As if the target on his Senate seat isn't visible enough, RINO Senator Lindsey Graham apparently sought to reinforce it in hunter orange to remind conservatives just how far off the reservation he remains. In remarks made on the floor of the Senate,...

November 28, 2010

Just where is Obama's 'center?'

I don't really understand what all the fuss is about regarding the possibility that Obama might be "moving to the center." Since those halcyon campaign days that will live forever in liberal imaginations, B.O. has made a bee-line toward hi...

November 20, 2010

Bad week for aging hippies

It's been a tough week for hopelessly liberal rock icons practicing their cartoon alternative lifestyles. First Neil Young's hippie-rigged, Lincvolt electric car caught fire  and destroyed nearly a million dollars worth of memorabilia in hi...

November 19, 2010

A modest airport security proposal

Perhaps we will begin to get serious about homeland security. The phrase was coined with the best of intentions when many of the functions of the agencies tasked with providing our national security were combined under the new, cabinet-level Departme...

November 10, 2010

Drill where? The Hollywood left blocks new oil field drilling

The sheer magnitude of the Tea Party tsunami that roared through Washington last week posits the existence of an active, motivated conservative electoral base. Without a doubt, this base will continue to engage itself in rolling back the entrenched p...

November 9, 2010

Obama following Lenin's Inflation Strategy?

I've been wondering when B.O. would get around to the inflation portion of their program for wealth re-distribution in America. In the short run, an unhealthy dose of inflation seems to be the only cure for the raft of American homeowners languishing...

October 26, 2010

Democrats need to resurrect the Locofoco party

The Dead-end Democrats of 2010 continue to impugn the Tea Party movement and it's candidates, regardless of the remarkable groundswell of support that will carry these conservatives to a resounding victory a week from today. There was a time however,...

October 24, 2010

Marie Antoinette has nothing on the Obamas

Despite campaigning as a consensus-builder and something of a healer, perhaps the most accurate term we can use to describe Barack Obama's governing style is "in your face." The term seems to have originated in the United States in the 1970...

October 23, 2010

The Joe Biden Math Minute

There he goes again. Periodically, Cipherin' Joe Biden likes to provide the nation with some comic relief in the form of the Joe Biden Math Minute. As Joe is wont to say:I did the math, I did the math, and it's literally true. Today's Biden Math Minu...

October 21, 2010

'Undercover' Democrats

Just when you thought those wily Democrats had pulled off every last dirty trick, demagogued or impugned every single opposition group, and lied every damnable lie, up pop the Massachusetts Undercover Democrats to lower the bar further still. With s...

October 20, 2010

Obama like the Chilean miners?

Americans have been treated to a rare taste of Harry Reid's eloquence this week. For starters, our cadaverous Senate majority leader mumbled and whined his way through a debate with his Republican opponent, Sharon Angle Sunday night. Reid wobbled lik...

October 17, 2010

Joe Klein on elites and 'ignoramuses'

"There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts." I suppose that depends on how you define the terms "expert" and "ignoramus." We already know that Joe and h...

October 13, 2010

U.N. Ignoring Albino Rights Violations in Africa?

The United Nations Human Rights Council is currently top-heavy with African and Arabic nations with a purview seemingly permanently fixed upon investigating the activities of Israel. Despite its task of monitoring an increasingly regressive and primi...

September 26, 2010

Has Israel 'attacked' the Iranian nuclear program already?

Since at least 2001, speculation in the Western media has focused on the possibility of an Israeli or combined American/Israeli attack on the burgeoning Iranian nuclear program. A report in the Eurasia Review suggests that the attack has already ta...

September 18, 2010

TN Dem candidate calls on Pelosi to 'step aside'

Faced with a defeat of historic proportion, Democrats across the nation are vying to invent conservative bona fides for themselves as they disavow their votes for Obamacare and Obamanomics and go into hiding whenever Obama shows up in their towns. As...

September 11, 2010

Bloomberg hearts Rangel

Proving once again that he believes there are no ethical standards that should stand in the way of sheer financial calculation, New York Mayor and the nation's leading Mosqueteer,   Michael Bloomberg has recorded a robo-message in support of et...

September 10, 2010

Consequence of contempt for American law

When will liberals ever begin to examine the consequences of their actions? The LAPD is up to its ears in burning trash cans, hurled rocks and bottles and confrontational illegals after police action in response to a knife-wielder resulted in the man...

August 31, 2010

Charity begins at home

Hot on the heels of both Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters being charged with ethics violations by the House Ethics Committee, the Dallas Morning News reports that Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) has been routinely handing out scholarships ...

August 12, 2010

Taxpayer abuse

Not content mimicking the turgid European democratic-socialist political model, the Obama administration intends to follow failed European technological initiatives down the drain as well. Massively invested in the take-over of the obsolete auto-make...

August 5, 2010

Activist Judges Strike Again

Of course gay federal district judge Vaughn Walker ruled the will of the people of California irrelevant and the Proposition 8 ban on same sex marriage unconstitutional. Convened in a San Francisco courtroom, with a parade of political activists dres...

July 30, 2010

Greetings from the UN!

I'll have to admit, I haven't been a very big fan of the United Nations. In fact, I have been working on an article recommending that the United States withdraw from the increasingly radical and increasingly anti-Semitic organization. I was about to...

July 27, 2010

Michelle Obama's luxury Spanish vacation

When Marie Antoinette was told the peasants had no bread, her famous rejoinder was the suggestion to "Let them eat cake." Pampered on the our tax dollars with a staff whose salaries exceed $1.6 million annually, Michelle Obama has not bee...

July 21, 2010

Biden's '08 campaign fined by FEC for accepting illegal contributions

Apparently gross negligence and fiduciary malfeasance by high-ranking Democrat politicians no longer warrants mention by the propaganda arm of the ruling American leftist party. The latest mid-summer Friday night news-dump involves the levy by the Fe...

July 8, 2010

Filibuster here, filibuster now

Filibuster is certainly an odd-sounding term. Its synonym, killdrivelling sounds like a Joe Biden speciality. An examination of it's 19th century etymological origins add a bit of color to our mental construct of the term :The term "filibuster...

July 5, 2010

The revolution is not being televised

Back in the glory days of the boomer generation, after it discovered its mutual affinity with the leftist American media, political demonstrations and protests ran rampant and  became the hip scene.  Aligning with the Chicago Seven and othe...

June 30, 2010

Kagan's 'smoking gun' abortion document

Did Kagan re-write medical report on partial-birth?  The smoking gun. In an article for NRO by Shannen Coffin who was a deputy attorney general in the Bush administration responsible for defending the federal partial-birth abortion act in court,...

June 25, 2010

Jackpot! Taxpayers footing the bill in CA for welfare recipient's casino junkets

It's not hard to figure out why California funds 32% of all the welfare cases in America. California's Social Services Department has the fewest restrictions for welfare applicants in the nation and pays the highest benefits. You need not even be ...

June 8, 2010

Stephen Hawking just doesn't get it

Somewhere along the way, the man who last held the Lucasian chair in mathematics at Cambridge once held by Sir Isaac Newton has forgotten how to construct a scientific hypothesis.  To the delight of his interviewer, Diane Sawyer of ABC News, Ste...

June 3, 2010

More transparency from Democrats

In her first significant legislative effort since assuming the satrapy carved out by Stephanie Tubbs Jones in black suburban Cleveland's 11th district, Representative Marcia Fudge (D) is leading a move by the Black Congressional Caucus calling for le...

June 3, 2010

Laura Ling names baby for Bill Clinton

It's not often that The American Thinker publishes birth announcements.  This one, however, seems worthy of note.  Bill Clinton's redemption is complete. Nearly a year after the former president negotiated the release of two Current TV repo...

May 24, 2010

Boycotting or Dodging the new law?

We know we can always count on Reuters to provide profoundly left-handed spin on topics hand-picked to influence public opinion. American Thinker readers will recall the extensive photo fraud practiced by Reuters camera men and photo editors in the...

May 23, 2010

Two bits, four bits, six bits a Euro

 Despite the best efforts of the Democrat troika of Obama, Pelosi & Reid to lead the American economy down the spiraling path of European socialism, Larry Kudlow at The National Review suggests that we might soon be cheering again for King ...

May 9, 2010

Boycott the boycotters

Surprise, surprise.  Obama's leftist shock troops have drawn their line in the sand regarding Arizona's ramped up focus on stemming the tide of illegal immigrants: Civil rights and labor groups on Thursday urged Americans not to travel to Ar...

February 20, 2010

John Edwards, Mesothelioma Man, and Health Care Reform

It has been fairly well-demonstrated that John Edwards is a pretty-boy philanderer married to a condescending harridan willing to go to any lengths to acquire stationery with the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue imprint. But what do we know about the ba...

February 20, 2010

Tenure killer still on University payroll

Now that Amy Bishop, the Tenure Killer, has officially gotten lawyered up, the last remaining leg of the media/university/academia troika is firmly in place. Watch closely as the unprincipled hacks of the liberal left pull out all of their...

February 17, 2010

Give Me Tenure or Give Me a 9mm: the Tenure Killer

Despite the cold-blooded, calculated multiple acts of murder alleged to have been committed by failed Professor Amy Bishop, the forces of political correctness continue to try to envelop the tenure-denied killer in a cocoon of protective reporting an...

February 14, 2010

A Valentine greeting from the GOP

Send a GOP Valentine's Day CardOur loyal readers will find no better way to express their sentiments this Valentines Day than to visit the GOP Valentine's Day Cards website.. A reprise of the witty and successful Republican 2009 effort, this year's o...

February 12, 2010

Last roundup for the last Kennedy in Congress

Say what you will about Obamacare and the balance of the turgid Democrat legistlative agenda, for all the anger and frustration it has caused Americans, revulsion at the Pelosian pinko policy proposals of 2009 continues to serve as an emetic for Cong...

February 11, 2010

'The Gloves are off'

After a year of handling the Pink Pantheresque Obama national security team with kid gloves,Senator Kit Bond, (R. Mo.), announced that the gloves are now off: "It is hard to trust anyone in the White House right now," Bond says. "...

February 4, 2010

IRS riding shotgun for Obama

It looks like the IRS under the Obama administration is getting serious about improving its ability to collect taxes and enforce the tax codes. The Drudge Report has posted a broadcast request from the IRS to purchase Remington pump-action shot...

February 2, 2010

The secession movement in Vermont

Despite being wildly over-represented in Congress considering their pint-sized population and their woeful insignificance to all but the maple syrup, macrame' plant-hanger and lib-tard industries, it looks like Vermonters would like to secede. A col...

February 1, 2010

Susan Rice: Another Do-Little Obama Appointee

Like many of her cohorts in the Obama administration, U.N. Permanent Representative Susan Rice seems to spend more time gallivanting around the Washington, D.C. social scene than doing any actual productive work. A report from Richard Grennel, who se...

January 30, 2010

American Francophiles

Barack Obama and his allies a gauche would like to model our national economy after that of the Social Democrat statopias of Western Europe, with the model of France being a particularly attractive model for leftists. A reading of the auto-biography...

January 30, 2010

Americans finally starting to see through the president's prevarications

As much as Barack Obama professes his admiration for our 16th POTUS, Abraham Lincoln, B.O. still seems determined to disprove one of Honest Abe's most famous bromides:"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the ...

January 25, 2010

Time to Take On the Unions

The self-actualizing tea-party/townhall movement continues its remarkable job on the national political scene. Nudged by talk radio and the alternative media punditocracy, conservatives have put boots on the ground and cash in the coff...

January 23, 2010

Obama is box office poison

Apparently it has never occurred to our political pollsters that Barack Hussein Obama is the Bradley Effect  personified.  While our floundering POTUS continues to garner approval numbers hovering in the 50% range, his policies are judged ...

January 19, 2010

Just who was it that vetted Coakley?

The utter lack of seriousness on the part of the Democratic Party in Massachusetts looks likely to complicate matters significantly for the Washingtonians stumbling toward Obamacare. It seems unlikely that anyone in the bastion of liberalism on the B...

January 14, 2010

Pickens' folly

Nesting comfortably atop a fortune estimated at $3 billion enhanced by the corporate raiding and greenmailing that characterized the Gordon Gekko, T. Boone Pickens hasn't lost the desire to flip the next marker in the lucrative field of energy invest...

January 3, 2010

One growth industry in this recession

Despite a dearth of positive results from the Obama Stimulus Package and its focus on shovel ready projects  there is at least one industry demonstrating growth in the midst of the Dem-pression; at least in B.O.'s home state of Illinois, anyway...

December 28, 2009

The Baucus drunken tirade

Max Baucus, Senator from Montana, has certainly been squandering his 15 minutes of fame.  His babbling, incoherent slurring speech in Senate debate on December 23 is perhaps the crowning achievement in his fall from respectability.  Surely ...

December 27, 2009

Not one nickel for California

There isn't a single compelling reason to provide the girly-man of American gubernatorial fiscal responsibility, Arnold Schwarzenegger, with a nickel from our federal coffers. His failing California remains the poster-child for liberal fiscal in...

December 26, 2009

Solving the al-Awlaki problem

It appears that the Yemeni government, doing the work that American intelligence agencies won't do, have sent a number of Al Qaeda bigwigs off to their virginal reward: "Initial reports that the airstrike may have been the work of the CIA seem t...

December 25, 2009

Was Bernie Madoff beaten up in prison?

Perhaps the biggest swindler in history suffers from jet-propelled restless leg syndrome. Suspicious reports from ABC 11 Eyewitness News in Durham, North Carolina suggest that Bernie Madoff was treated for injuries he suffered when he fell out of b...

December 21, 2009

'Twas the Night before Obamacare'

Twas the night before Christmas   And all through the Senate  All the Dems were conniving    To defy public sentiment   The amendments were all gutted   By the scoundrels who dared  To please St. Obama  ...

December 20, 2009

Why we need tort reform

As the cost of supporting Democrat candidates for public office continues to skyrocket, the tort lawyers of America continue their search for vulnerable corporations with deep pockets to harass, intimidate and plunder. Sounds like a good name for ...

December 17, 2009

John Edwards may be in legal hot water for speaking to potential grand jury witness

If Tiger Woods thinks the cold eye of the celebrity-centric media will fade with an Elin-enforced time-out, perhaps he should get a second opinion from former Vice Presidential candidate for the Democrats, John Edwards.   When last we left our ...

December 16, 2009

Gore's end run around the press in Copenhagen

Surrounded by a phalanx of blockers including the lady press secretary showing a pretty solid stiff-arm, Al Gore demonstrates the Warmist End Run in the video provided by Phelim McAleer: The Washington Redskins could benefit from studying the film...

December 13, 2009

Sign of the times: Obamavilles

While Obamaphiles love to compare B.O. to previous American presidents Abe Lincoln and FDR, events on the ground suggest that another comparison might be more appropriate. A sign posted anonymously outside a tent city near Colorado Springs suggests t...

December 11, 2009

Is it time for a moratorium on immigration?

While the Obama administration's approach to boosting employment for Americans in the face of the highest unemployment in decades remains tethered to magical thinking and slippery accounting tactics designed to inflate the number of actual jobs creat...

December 6, 2009

Some recommended actions in the wake of Climategate

Over at Townhall.com, Doug Giles is ripping on the complicit fraudsters that comprise the Climate Change lobby. With raucous wit the author/minister/radio-host rips the "Euro-tools,..tree-humpers...and hairy-legged earth girls" who just g...

December 6, 2009

Professor slain by Saudi grad student

Dr. Richard Antoun of Binghamton University, a retired professor of anthropology with a specialty in comparative religions allegedly was stabbed four times in the chest by a Saudi  national, Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, a cultural-anthropology grad st...

December 2, 2009

Code Pink swings into action - against Obama

Barack Obama's moonbat base is at it again. Code Pink has decided that B.O.'s soon-to-be-announced quasi-surge in Afghanistan is not what they bargained for when they helped turn out the vote for him. See their latest poster here.  It seems...

December 1, 2009

ACORN ponders name change

Jake Sherman at Politico reveals the discovery of an ACORN document suggesting that the group is considered an image-makeover and a changed moniker: "The memo also acknowledges that it has encountered organizations and individuals who want to wo...

November 29, 2009

The Tiger Woods Affair continues

As Tiger Woods remains at home licking his wounds, media speculation about the eventsleading up to the crash at the end of his driveway runs rampant. Thus far The Woods' team is stonewalling the media and police as they stall for time. Besides the ...

November 28, 2009

Alternative media scoops MSM on Tiger Woods story

So one of the greatest athletes in the world is unable to navigate the treacherous arc of his driveway and has to be rescued by his wife?   Mrs. Woods breaks the rear window of Tiger's 2009 Escalade to free him and the police arrive to find Tige...

November 27, 2009

Tear Down the Warmist Wall

James Delingpole, delightful and indefatigable columnist for the UK Telegraph and author of Welcome to Obamaland, I've Seen Your Future and it Doesn't Work,  provides a blistering summation of the impact of the revelations from Climategate....

November 24, 2009

Warmists using suicidal animals to push discredited theory

The desperate hyperventilation you hear is the result of the mad scramble by climate change shills to play their few remaining global warming cards.  A combination of increasing skepticism by the public, combined with the recent exposure of whol...

November 22, 2009

A 'Great Leap Forward' for Cuban healthcare

Just in time to tweak the noses of Americans still resisting the call to nationalized health care, those wily Fidelistas have announced the newest benefit offered in Cuba's government-run health care program:  Free penile implants. AFP reports: ...

November 18, 2009

Tibet, Dalai Lama thrown under the bus by Obama

 In order to be able to stand on principle, one would have to have some principles to start with.  Clearly this is not a problem for Barack Obama as he neared completion of his administration's abandonment of the Tibetan people in their des...

November 13, 2009

'Obamao' frenzy in China

'Obamao' Frenzy Sweeps ChinaFor those of us who thought White House press liaison Anita Dunn was just another Obama moonbat, here is the evidence proving she was simply ahead of the Chinese Communist curve:"The Chinese internet has been flooded ...

November 12, 2009

You might be a jihadi if....

Jeff Foxworthy has made a very nice living with his "You Might Be a Redneck" schtick.  Foxworthy's keen observations drive his talent for stating the obvious about the cultural idiosyncracies of the only American minority group le...

November 8, 2009

How Now Blue Cao?

It didn't take long for Representative Joseph Cao of Louisiana to oust Dede Scozzafava from the top ranking as most reprehensible turncoat posing as a Republican.  Cao's dunderheaded vote in support of the Pelosi-Care bill undoubtedly garne...

November 7, 2009

Doctors recommending ObamaCare?

By the late 1930's Americans began to recognize the health risks associated with smoking.  The tobacco companies responded by enlisting the use of physicians (and some decidedly questionable studies) in their advertising:Now the Democrats attemp...

October 23, 2009

Haven't we heard this refrain before?

"A $300 million, environmentally friendly, clean, renewable energy project waiting to serve 50,000 households is in limbo over a rare bat nobody has ever seen on the project site," Clifford J. Zatz, a lawyer at Crowell & Moring, which r...

October 23, 2009

Mr. Deeds goes under the bus

  Oh, the wheels on the Obama Bus go round and round, this time running over Virginia Democrat candidate for governer, Creigh Deeds.  Long before Election Day, the frontrunners in the White House are already teaming with national party lead...

October 22, 2009

Baseball umpire ineptitude: Look for the Union Label

From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore."Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone on the stand;And its likely they'd a-killed him had not Casey ra...

October 22, 2009

Has Farrakhan Been Talking to Reverend Wright Again?

"The Earth can't take 6.5 billion people. We just can't feed that many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some disease,' Farrakhan said....

October 18, 2009

Children of a Lesser God

While UK multiculturalism scrambles to appease Islamic sensibilities, Christian sensibilities are being appropriated and mocked in London.Opening earlier this week at the magnificent former Holy Trinity Church designed by Sir John Sloane at One Maryl...

October 17, 2009

Wise Latinas Spike Illegal Alien Costumes at Target

Like me, you might have wondered what all the rest of America's wise Latinas have been up to now that Justice Sotomayor has assumed her position on the U.S. Supreme Court.   Well it seems that the Facebook site, "Wise Latinas Linked...

October 16, 2009

The Search for the Wikipedia Libelist (important update)

  Thanks to an intrepid blogger with the tag Trapdoc posting a letter to Mark Steyn, the search for the Wikipedia Libelist responsible for damaging posts to the Rush Limbaugh account apparently has been narrowed to the IP add...

October 6, 2009

Obama: Goodbye, Dalai

"American officials told Tibetan representatives that "this president is not interested in symbolism or photo ops but in deliverables," the Asian diplomat said. "He wants something to come out of his efforts over Tibet, rather tha...

October 2, 2009

Top Ten David Letterman Excuses for Adultery

  Well, it certainly could happen to a nicer guy.  The increasingly irascible and decreasingly funny late night talk show host announced to his audience Tuesday night that he has been the victim of an extortion plot.  It seems the...

September 21, 2009

Is the Federal Department of News Next?

Barack Obama just dipped his toe into the ocean of government subsidized news and promptly suggested that the water is fine, adding that he is open to the possibility of jumping right in.  The Hill reports B.O.'s seemingly innocuous response to ...

September 20, 2009

Reactionary Liberalism and the Peanut Narcissist

Reactionary: adjective Vehemently, often fanatically opposing progress or reform die-hard, mossbacked  See politics. Clinging to obsolete ideas:  backward, unprogressive.The term reactionary is most often used to describe conservative polit...

September 20, 2009

Shoe Bomber Re-United with Pen Pals

The Boston Globe reports on the latest round of terrorist appeasement from that man-made disaster called the Obama Administration in a story revealing the removal of many of the restrictions imposed upon the nefarious shoe-bomber, Richard C...

September 13, 2009

Green Party: Truther Jones for Prez?

It appears that the marginal-at-best Green Party will go to any lengths to thumb its collective nose at the American voting public.  A report from The Hill suggests that the party whose platform is equal parts ecological wisdom and soc...

September 2, 2009

Lockerbie bomber's get out of jail free card may be a joker

It's hard to tell if the footage  offered on British television featuring the recently released Lockerbie bomber is actual news being reported or made-for-tv drama. The footage featuring Al-Megrahi is cobbled to the back-end of British Chan...

August 26, 2009

Scottish government: Obama-lite?

The Scottish government behind the noxious Lockerbie bomber release was only granted limited self-rule or "devolution" in 1997.  Perhaps the Scots serving in their "wee pretendy parliament" are as thick as the UK Telegraph's ...

August 25, 2009

Medical report on Lockerbie bomber released

It appears that the quality of health care provided to the recently furloughed Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi has been on a par with that to be obtained by the most gold-plated of private insurers in the United States.  Repor...

August 24, 2009

The Art of Politically Correct Apology by Bill Maher

Self-proclaimed apatheist Bill Maher uses a number of Cronkite-media formats to disseminate his nihilistic, self-proclaimed "pro-death"  fulminations, including a blog at The Huffington Post.  The style of composition is closer to...

August 19, 2009

Obama's shallow comprehension of economics major cause for concern

"Impromptu Obamanomics is getting scarier by the day. For all the president's touted intelligence, his un-teleprompted comments reveal a basic misunderstanding of capitalist principles." Carol Baum, in an article at Bloomberg.com reveals th...

August 16, 2009

Idiot Compassion for the Lockerbie Bomber

Scotland's Justice Secretary, Kenny McAskill, has decided to release the Lockerbie bomber  responsible for the deaths of 270 on the 1988 Pan Am flight 103.  According to the UK Daily Mail, the crack medical specialists at the British Nation...

August 12, 2009

Hugo Chavez the Main Attraction in Venezuela's Revolutionary Circus

Despite a rather clumsy translation, the words of Alexander Cambero in Caracas' El Universal courageously expose the embarrassment and chagrin of the people of Venezuela who suffer under the ham-fisted regime of Hugo Chavez:"With Hugo Chá...

August 5, 2009

The View from Planet Reid

"He looks as though he has been weaned on a pickle." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth on Calvin CoolidgeAlthough President Coolidge's demeanor was serially dour, compared to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Silent Cal beamed like a canary...

July 28, 2009

Mrs. Evan Bayh Does the Board Walk

Despite the faltering economy, the job market for spouses of Democrat Senators continues to blossom. Daniel Lee, in an Indianapolis Star investigative report, details how Mrs. Evan Bayh appears to be following the example of Michelle Obama's remunera...

July 27, 2009

A Teachable Moment Indeed

"..an incensed Gates yelling, "This is what happens to black men in America!," and, when asked by Crowley to speak with him outside the residence, Gates replied, "ya, I'll speak with your mama outside." Cambridge PD reportWha...

July 22, 2009

Will the Last Employers to Leave Michigan Please Turn Off the Lights?

Those wily Michigan Democrats have come up with some interesting proposals that would pour gasoline on the fire that is burning down the Michigan economy.  State party Chairman, Mark Brewer wants to test support for potential ballot initiatives ...

July 21, 2009

Harvard professor arrested, alleges police racism

Displaying all the vituperative indignation developed by the Tawana Brawley school of victimhood,  Harvard professor of African-American studies, Henry  Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. did his best to incite a racial incident with Cambrid...

July 14, 2009

Hamas Claims Gazans Plagued by Israeli Operation Hubba Bubba

Agence France Presse reports a remarkable new claim from Hamas that Israeli intelligence is engaged in what might be referred to as Operation Hubba Bubba. It seems the Hamastan police force nabbed some gang members discovered to have been distri...

July 11, 2009

Pope Benedict and the First Reader

Undoubtedly impressed by Barack Obama's repeated allusions to his penchant for deep reading,  Pope Benedict slipped a pamphlet to the fledging POTUS outlining the Vatican's moral position on birth control and embryonic stem-cell research. ...

July 7, 2009

Your Tax Dollars at Work: Supporting Michelle Obama in the Manner

The figures are in.  As required by Congress since 1995, salaries paid to staffers employed in the West Wing of the White House must be publicly reported.  Most of you won't be pleased to learn that your tax dollars are paying $1,448,500 an...

July 6, 2009

Obama: Intergalactic Champion of Fiscal Irresponsibility

Where was this guy when McCain ran to Washington to destroy his campaign over the Wall Street financial crisis?  Kevin Hassett, a director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and former advisor to the McCain camp...

June 8, 2009

Once Again, No Evacuation Plan for New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

Living proof of Brendan Behan's quip that in the age of American idolized celebrity,"There is no such thing as bad publicity except for your own obituary", the voluble Ray Nagin and his wife remain holed-up in quarantine  at the Jinjia...

June 5, 2009

Our First Female President?

In the same sense that Toni Morrison claimed Bill Clinton was our first black president, Barack Obama could be thought of as another groundbreaker: our first female president. He displays every trope of femininity more than any female "who could...

June 3, 2009

Suddenly Silent Sonia

Apparently, Sonia Sotomayor got the Joe Biden memo.  Normally ebullient, the SCOTUS nominee has suddenly gone Silent Cal on us: "She didn't even clear her throat," said one photographer after the mute judge popped in to see Senate Majo...

May 20, 2009

Hersh gets Hershed

"Seymour Hersh "is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist."  Richard Perle  Seymour Hersh, perhaps the only person serving in a journalistic capacity to suggest that Sandy Berger and Madeleine Albright were ...

May 7, 2009

The David Paterson comedy tour

Surely no experienced politician would embark upon the curious route navigated of late by New York's Democrat Governor David Paterson. The April Marist poll shows the struggling chief executive trailing Rudi Giuliani (56% to 32%), Mario Cuomo (70% to...

April 30, 2009

'When Harry Met Arlen' Gets Poor Reviews in Dem Caucus

The flipping of Arlen Specter's party identity to the partie gauche is already roiling the waters in the Democratic Caucus as senior party members speak out against the deal Specter cut with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.  Apparently without...

April 25, 2009

California to dump ethanol?

As greenies nationwide continue their mental gymnastics searching for alternative energy sources, it seems the California EPA is falling out of love with ethanol:California regulators are ready to conclude that corn ethanol cannot help the state figh...

April 23, 2009

What's in a name?

Nearly 100 days into the redistributionist efforts of B.O. Plenty and the Daley Planetoids in his orbit, we have yet to settle on an appropriate moniker for the administration's radical new direction.  "New Foundation" has been bandied...

April 22, 2009

Green up, Man! It's Freaking Earth Day!

Special Earth Day Issue  April 22, 2009UFOs and AGWThe Next Ice AgeGreen up, Man! It's Freaking Earth Day!Saving Our Planet, One Guilt Trip at a TimeA Lenin's Birthday Story"We're in a race between a biological collapse and an economic coll...

April 7, 2009

The Olympics, Chicago-style

The City that takes the Fifth arrayed itself somewhat prematurely in its springtime finest to dazzle visiting dignitaries from the International Olympic Committee.  The IOC was expected to arrive April 2 to inspect Chicago's potential to be...

April 6, 2009

NY Governor Paterson's Job Security

High muckety-mucks in the New York State Democrat Party have given Governor-by-Default, David Paterson the wobbliest of ultimatums:  shape up or we might possibly have to think about considering asking a Hispanic or black leader to inquire as to...

April 2, 2009

What's So Cool About the Obamas?

I'm tired of listening to one pie-eyed Obamaphile after another blithering about B.O.'s coolness.  Now Susan Estrich, even in the face of the new President's bumbling foreign policy, rapacious ear-marked spending, and ham-handed meddling with Am...

March 30, 2009

Old Media Watchdogs Beg for Treats

In a whiny, absurd editorial worthy of the DaDa movement, Neil Finley of The Detroit News urges public support of the newspaper industry, touting it's function as watchdog:The opportunists and political grifters will still be around, scheming to move...

March 7, 2009

Does Hallmark Have a Card for this?

Political correctness has been on a tear since the rebellious 1960's and has effectively ruined our schools, compromised our foreign policy and continues to insult those with religious inclinations.   The PC crowd's assault on the calendar ...

March 1, 2009

Newspaper editors' convention scrapped

Following the cancellation of their annual convention for only the second time in 86 years, the American Society of Newspaper Editors is considering draconian measures to right their leaky vessels.  Foremost among the proposed solutions is a nam...

March 1, 2009

IRS Pension Plan Form Fun

My brother-in-law manages his own pension-funding company, helping small to middling businessmen to develop and maintain retirement programs for themselves and their employees.  Needless to say, it has not been a banner year for pension-funders ...

February 25, 2009

A Month of B.O.

Has it been but a single B.O. Presidential moon?  It's hard to believe the sheer volume of hyperactive bumbling the Obama administration has crammed into the space of a mere 30 some days.   Perhaps it's the technological superiori...

February 9, 2009

Who Says Obama's Not Funny?

Way back in the ancient history of the 2008 Presidential campaign, the tingly-legged media was busy trying to discover why there was so little humor published about the Democrat candidate who would become our 44th President.Folks over at the New York...

February 8, 2009

The Bill Gates Mosquito Circus

"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar onstage at the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference - a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars."I brought some. Here I'll ...

February 2, 2009

Obama Struggling to Find Photo-Op Republicans

Looks like President Barack Obama has got another think coming.   The Acorn Wonder is trying a combination of bombardment and enticement to gain bipartisan support needed to give him cover for the Pelosi Pork Stimulator 2009.  Obama's ...

January 19, 2009

The Plague of Al-Qaeda is Plagued

It's been a rough month to be a terrorist.  First Hamas gets slapped around by the Israelis and now it's reported that the bubonic plague has infected a powerful Algerian Al-Qaeda cell. The UK Sun reports:The killer bug, also known as the plague...

January 3, 2009

Israel's Proportionality

According to the doctrine (of proportionality), a state is legally allowed to unilaterally defend itself and right a wrong provided the response is proportional to the injury suffered. The response must also be immediate and necessary, refrain from t...

December 24, 2008

What's the Obama version of Camelot?

President-elect Barack Obama, in the midst of a luxurious respite from the grueling schedule he maintained over the interminable 2008 campaign, enjoyed a round of golf Sunday at the Olomana Golf Club near Waikiki.  While his score wasn't reporte...

December 15, 2008

The barefoot press corps?

President George W. Bush's surprise farewell appearance in Baghdad was bizarrely interrupted by an Iraqi shoe-palmer named Muntazer al Zaidi yesterday.  Deftly ducking the shoe-fly guy's best pitches, the President joked:  "If you want...

November 24, 2008

Time Again for Letters of Marque?

Once again, piracy captures the world's attention, though it seems unlikely that Hollywood will ever cast Johnny Depp in Pirates of Somalia. It's equally unlikely that a Somali immigrant got carried away on National Talk Like a Pirate Day (September ...

November 17, 2008

Planned obsolesence

Obsolete:  Outmoded in design, style or construction.  The American Heritage DictionaryAP reports that Goldman Sachs is forecasting further financial distress for the obsolete American print media sector, as the obsolete American automakers...

November 6, 2008

Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages

Oops! It looks like expectations are already being dashed by the president-elect. According to WTHR TV in Indianapolis: Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people a...

November 1, 2008

Barack Obama & Richard Nixon: Soulmates?

Obama's campaign and persona bear a striking resemblance to a recent Republican President: Richard Milhouse "Tricky Dick" Nixon.There are a few minor differences among the remarkable similarities:  while Nixon spent months trying to ov...

October 15, 2008

John McCain: the hero or the goat?

John McCain still has a real chance to be elected POTUS.  Even with the CBS/NYT latest poll preposterously proclaiming a 13% lead for Obama, John McCain can still end up the hero of this prolonged passion play.It really does depend on his debate...

September 30, 2008

Fannie Mae Strong-Arm Monitoring of Race

Being a veteran of the sub-prime wars, the revelations emerging in the Fannie-Freddie debacle are illuminating practices that previously seemed insignificant in the hey-day of my mortgage brokering career.  While rates were low and standards wer...

September 25, 2008

Charles Rangel and the forensic squad: CSI Harlem?

The Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee has hired a forensic accountant to help untangle the web of artifice the Congressman has submitted for the past 10 years in lieu of legitimate tax returns. It seems Mr. Rangel will need...

August 24, 2008

Biden Adds Comicus

If Dick Cheney added gravitas to George W. Bush's candidacy, Obama's limping selection of the irascible Senator Joe Biden of Delaware promises to be more likely to provide comicus, or comic relief.With about 70 days left until Election Day, the Democ...

July 26, 2008

Organ donor cars and the Democrats

I was talking with my nephew who is now old enough to drive and is selecting his first personal vehicle.  Reviewing his options, I asked if he had considered the Smart Car or any of the other micro-mini-sub-compacts.  The stunning increase ...

March 12, 2008

Campaign 2008 Lost and Found

Lost: One Super Delegate from the Hillary Clinton camp.  Disgraced and humiliated Governor Eliot Spitzer is certain to be a casualty here -- the exposure of Spitzer's predilection for pricey whores is not in synch with the Clinton camp's prefere...

February 25, 2008

Bill & Hillary Clouseau?

Initially feared and prohibitively favored, the campaign of Hillary Clinton in its death spiral has devolved into Pink Panther-like absurdity.  Originally described as a juggernaut, the terms that most accurately describe Hillary's campaign now ...

August 21, 2007

The Moral Hazard of Regulating Sub-Prime Mortgage Lending

The term "moral hazard" is being bandied about in commentary about the sub-prime mortgage woes currently roiling our financial markets.  Columns from George Will and Irwin Stelzer among many others, warn against the interposition of go...

June 6, 2007

Idiot Compassion

The term "bleeding-heart liberal" has been bandied about for years, in an effort to illustrate the faux or at least hyperbolic sense of compassion attributed to those on the left.  The lefties in America and Europe would like to be kno...