October 23, 2009

Gardasil Shows Why Government Health Care is Dangerous

Gardasil has to be the perfect drug for the brave new world of ObamaCare, in a 1984 kind of way. Made by Merck & Co., it was approved in 2006 for use against venereal disease in young girls. Here's why it's so culturally suited for hope...

May 15, 2009

The latest federal takeover (satire)

WASHINGTON (Satire Wire) - Speaking at the White House this morning, President Barack Obama announced to reporters that, in lieu of his receiving a speaker's fee for his giving the commencement address there on May 17, the Federal government would be...

February 18, 2009

6 reporters go to work for Obama

Some people have been quite shocked that six mainstream journalists have quit their jobs to go work for the Obama administration. My question: How could they tell?...

November 11, 2007

Monuments to Wimpdom

What do these modern memorials to heroism and sacrifice have in common? * The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial. Designed by college student Maya Lin, it was unveiled in Washington, D.C. on Veterans' Day 25 years ago. It's a black granite thingy-a long, pla...

November 10, 2007

Where the heroes are

Check out this essay, "Today I Met The Finest," from Free Republic today.  A Vietnam vet goes to his first veterans' event and discovers the ordinary heroes we rub elbows with every day, without knowing who they really are an...

October 18, 2007

Is Iraq More Peaceful Now Than Under Saddam?

The headline I saw online from McClatchy Newspapers was an obvious parody: "As violence falls in Iraq, cemetery workers feel the pinch." But it turned out not to be a parody, but an earnest attempt by two reporters and a group of corre...

April 12, 2007

The Imus Formula

In the post-Easter crucifixion of the "Imus in the Morning" radio show that substituted for news this week, the hypocrisy would make a Pharisee blush. All of a sudden, it's supposedly shocking that Don Imus referred to the Rutgers girl...

April 12, 2007

Ted Rall and Don Imus

Now that Imus has lost his MSNBC show while black broadcasters use similar and worse terminology on the public airwaves, we have an explicit double standard forming. White people can't use certain words and black people can. That's bad, but at least ...