April 21, 2011

Redistribute: What's in a Word?

Words matter.  And so do the origins of words.  The English language has one of the largest -- if not the largest -- vocabularies on the planet, which might explain why so many of the leading media pundits have a difficult time pronouncing ...

February 26, 2011

Only the Vanquished Pursue Compromise

The Washington Post offers advice to Republicans on how they can emerge as winners in the looming budget shutdown fracas. True to form, the Post asserts that the GOP must conform to certain realities that (gasp!) spring from an ever evolving ancien...

February 2, 2011

What's the difference, Mr. President?

For more than a week during the summer of 2009, hundreds of thousands of protestors filled the streets of Iran calling for the ouster of its oppressive, fundamentalist Islamic regime. Even though Iran was a demonstrable foe of American security inte...

September 20, 2010

Why, Sir, Are You a Republican?

Politico reports that retired General Colin Powell believes that President Obama needs to do a better job of connecting with Americans, especially where unemployment is concerned. Mr. Powell, a Republican, (in)famously endorsed Obama over John McCa...

September 14, 2010

A Party of 'No' Means 'Yes' to Liberty

Progressives denounce conservative Republicans as the "Party of No," as if they were ignorant and thoughtless. Combine that opinion with that espoused by Obama when he infamously assailed the U.S. Constitution as, "A charter of negat...

September 9, 2010

A test on Islam, PC, and Progressivism

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August 30, 2010

Obama pivots toward the middle

Obama's long-anticipated, pre-election move to the center is finally here. With two months to go before mid-term elections, Obama is changing his message, and hoping his party benefits from the change. In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams on S...

August 3, 2010

The (R)Ad Council and Progressives

Public Service Announcements (PSAs) have been around for a long time as a product of governmental mandate -- a price traditional media pay for the use of broadcast bandwidth. PSAs are messages for the common good, at least in theory.  PSAs are s...

July 24, 2010

Edifice Complex

Bobby Kennedy was killed in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles more than forty years ago. Two decades after that deplorable event, the L.A. school system set its sights on converting the 20 acre site into a school complex. Not everyone agreed with t...

July 22, 2010

The wisdom of children

Both of the breadwinners in this household rank among the "under-employed." Our children are old enough to understand that we are experiencing challenging times as a family and as a nation, but they are too young to anticipate what that me...

July 3, 2010

Fox Sports pitches high and inside

The world of sports unifies American culture. Asian, black, hispanic, and white. Boys, women, girls, and men. Five-year-olds and eighty-three-year-olds. It doesn't matter. Athletics is societal glue. Unfortunately, Liberalism dominates the world...

May 21, 2010

Obama's rat and the Gore effect

A recent banner on the Drudge Report featured an AP story and photo about a rodent scurrying along the steps in front of Obama's podium in the Rose Garden as he announced a breakthrough in financial reform legislation. No big deal, right?Once the p...

May 10, 2010

Obama says we "Must stay informed and engaged

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April 28, 2010

What caused the offshore oil platform to explode?

At the risk of sounding paranoid, I have to ask, "What caused the explosion on the BP-operated oil drilling platform known as Deepwater Horizon fifty miles off the coast of Louisiana on April 20th?"There are a number of other unanswered que...

April 22, 2010

A lesson in obscurity - or the lack - on new $100 bill

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April 9, 2010

A jury of his peers

President Obama signed a proposed treaty with Russia on Thursday that will reduce the potency of the American military. It is a proposal that will undermine US security in the opinion of this writer. But, what do I know? More instructive are the o...

March 27, 2010

Obamacare: Running the numbers

The real cost of health care reform, as recognized by the nation's business community, is just beginning to take shape. Bloomberg Business Week (picked up by Drudge) reports that SEC filings by such companies as AT&T, Caterpillar, AK Steel Hold...

March 24, 2010

Some questions about the future of insurance in America

Who really knows what lies in store for health insurance companies? On a broader issue, who knows what lies in store for the insurance industry generally ; certainly the CBO has not weighed-in on that question. Hence, this writer would like to hear ...

March 24, 2010

The 'Root' of Disproportionate Representation

On the day following the passage of the most invasive restructuring of American society in the last 75 years, The Root, a black oriented site whose editor-in-chief is presidential pa; and Cambridge cop racism accuser Henry Louis "Skip" Gate...

March 20, 2010

Mr. President, sir: You are no gentleman

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March 18, 2010

EPA to regulate the fleas and ticks on your dog

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March 17, 2010

'Deem and pass' or a Demon Pass?

Nancy Pelosi calls it "deem and pass," but the phrase sure sounds more like "Demon Pass." And the ‘sound' of what the Democrats propose is closer to the truth; our nation stands atop a mountain divide, and the populace wait...

March 16, 2010

A tale of three cities

Some people in Britain espouse greater confidence in America than perhaps most of us feel ourselves. After more than two years of dire economic/political news, this writer took a certain amount of pleasure from an article posted in the London Telegr...

March 12, 2010

Why does the MSM distinguish between 'liberal' and 'black?'

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March 9, 2010

Hollywood Values in the Classroom

Suzy Amis Cameron, spouse of Avatar director James Cameron, has co-founded a new school, Muse Elementary, in greater Los Angeles. Maureen Harrington of the Los Angeles Times interviewed Ms. Cameron for details concerning the school.We learn that for ...

March 9, 2010

Cognitive dissonance at the Smithsonian magazine

Smithsonian Magazine is known for its far-flung stories and diverse topics, in many respects resembling the museum itself. The magazine's stories, however, project a theme that does not  (yet) appear in all of the museum's exhibits: virtually a...

March 8, 2010

The light bulb switches on in the heads of GM execs

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March 3, 2010

Save the planet: raise the gas tax to $7 a gallon

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March 2, 2010

Study confirms that Andy Griffith lives in Mayberry.com

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February 25, 2010

A picture is worth a thousand biased words

A featured story on Wednesday's MSN's homepage relates a "scientific" study conducted by Tufts University as reported by Good.is. In it we learn that students were able to guess a political candidate's party affiliation merely by looking a...

February 24, 2010

New US embassy in Britain going Medieval

America's 21st century embassy in London will meld 10th century defenses with 21st century hoax-ism. Abandoning its old site at Grosvenor square, the new US embassy will relocate at a cost of $1 billion (sure to go up) to a former industrial site in...

February 22, 2010

Clueless is as clueless does

Janet Napolitano, speaking to a gathering of governors, stated that her first year of on-the-job-training leads her to conclude that her earlier focus on foreign-spawned terrorism was misplaced. According to an AP article, the Secretary of Homeland...

February 13, 2010

Mort Zuckerman considering NY senate run

The New York Times reports that Mortimer B. Zuckerman is considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat for New York presently held by Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D).  Mr. Zuckerman regards Ms. Gillibrand as vulnerable to a challenge and is hoping that, ...

February 11, 2010

Obama's Vegas bashing bears fruit

Obama's sustained assault on Las Vegas--formerly the economic engine of Nevada--is bearing fruit. Obama has announced, more than once, that we should eschew the pleasures of a vacation or business conference in Sin City; so, we Americans are hunkere...

February 9, 2010

NBC in future shock

NBC's Brian Williams and Lisa Myers made a startling discovery today: In a story carried not only on NBC, but also on the MSN homepage, President Obama's Private MSM Guard lowered the drawbridge, raised the portcullis, and entreated the lord's serfs ...

February 2, 2010

Still trying to legislate morality

The adage says, "You can't legislate morality." This writer is uncertain of the provenance of that observation, but presumes that it hearkens back at least to the 18th Amendment-Prohibition--which was certified in 1919. In the entire hist...

January 30, 2010

Football, hot dogs, applie pie...and federal intervention

As a life-long, avid football fan, I have decried the myriad injustices of the sport's championships. There was no excuse for the Jets beating the Colts in 1969's Super Bowl III. Baltimore's besting of the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V made me sob...

January 28, 2010

Stephanoupolos acknowledges First Person bent of the First Person President.

Prior to his State of the Union Address, the First-Person-Pronoun President met with select members of the media for an off-the-record luncheon.  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos reported that the president was upbeat, and summed up the Chief Pro...

January 26, 2010

PC double standard on abortion ad for Super Bowl

The Associated Press reports that the National Organization for Women, The Feminist Majority, and other groups are objecting to a Focus on the Family television ad featuring University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother that is schedul...