December 4, 2015

Let's Play Fantasy President

The recent debates and skirmishes among 2016 presidential candidates are beginning to remind me of 1976, when, in their infinite wisdom, the people of the United States searched among their best and wisest statesmen for a leader -- and came up with a...

February 28, 2013

A Polish Explanation of the Italian Election

The intricacies of Italian politics have baffled the rest of the world for many centuries. Nonetheless, what's past is mere prologue, compared to the stunning near-victory of Silvio Berlusconi in last week's election. Berlusconi's career  has ...

October 22, 2012

Putting Obama's 'Mammogram' Lie to the Test

In the second Obama-Romney debate, Obama defended Federal funding of Planned Parenthood by claiming: "There are millions of women all across the country, who rely on Planned Parenthood for, not just contraceptive care, they rely on it for mammograms,...

September 19, 2012

It's a mystery!

Yesterday, while perusing the Google News website, I noticed the heading Neb. senator pleads guilty to 2 misdemeanors, and under it," State Sen. Brenda Council pleaded guilty Tuesday to filing false campaign finance reports that prosecutors say conce...

September 16, 2012

Some Precursors of Obama's 'Yes, we are better off!'

President Obama has doubled-down on the absurd claim that somehow Americans are better off than four years ago, and is now running advertising with the preposterous message. While I -- along with the millions of people who are jobless or facing forec...

September 4, 2012

A Reply to the Democrats' Reply to Romney

My family and friends have a terseness that I vainly try to emulate. This evening I read, as the head item in Google News, "Democrats Say US Is Better Off Than Four Years Ago ". As I fumed, my wife glanced at it and shrugged:  "Well, better off ...

December 24, 2011

A Christmas Present for Husbands

Wives of America, lovely and gracious ladies, I entreat you to give your husbands a Christmas present this year that they will treasure more than a Rolex or SUV. Simply acknowledge that you understand the following statement and will treat them accor...

February 4, 2009

The Stimulus Bill, in Fifteen Words (updated)

A member of my family has come up with a concise analysis of Obama's stimulus bill:"It's like trying to get out of debt by maxing out all your credit cards."Update -- Greg W writes:I like Patrick Buchanan's question:Does it make sense ...

February 1, 2009

Football Then and Now

My wife is grateful that I am not a football fan. I turn on the TV and watch the Super Bowl listlessly for ten minutes and then click it off. College football gets about five minutes, even when my alma mater, Notre Dame, is playing. What turns me off...

June 12, 2008

The Curious Behavior of Hugo Chavez

"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident." -Silver Blaze...

May 26, 2008

122° In Full Combat Gear

We generally think of Memorial Day as a time to remember and pray for the  men and women in the armed services who died for their country -- that is, you and me. We think of the end of Saving Private Ryan and wonder, as we have many times before...

May 13, 2008

A History Lesson for Obama

"Foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton and Senator McCain...."   - B. Obama  "I trust the American people to understand that it is ...

April 18, 2008

Obama, Marx, and God

If a man says something once, it may just be a slip of the tongue. If he repeats the same phrase over and over again, he may believe it or he may be shamelessly propagandizing. But if he repeats the same idea in different words throughout his life, i...

March 16, 2008

Swooning: Then and Now

Barack Obama seems to have the power to make women, even liberal feminists, swoon, as Kyle-Anne Shiver's recent article delightfully discussed. But she betrays her youth. For old-timers like me, there's nothing new about women shrieking and swoo...

January 31, 2008

Happy Birthday, Explorer 1

Apparently, the space program is the ultimate has-been. Fifty years ago today, the most important news in the world was that the United States had responded to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1, the first Earth Satellite, by launching Explorer 1...

January 10, 2008

The nobility of three soldiers

Our preoccupation with the current political scene caused many of us to overlook a tragic and noble event that took place in Iraq on January 7.According to the most detailed account, in [UK] Times Online,  It was a day of ceremony, pride an...

August 9, 2007

A Summer Session for Congress?

Much has been made of the fact that the lawmakers of the Iraq parliament are taking a one-month vacation in August. The US Congress and media have complained that, as one critic put it:WHILE U.S. soldiers are risking their lives and dying each day in...

June 24, 2007

The Ugly Face of Abortion

A recent article in the American Thinker, included the sentence:"...moral issues aside, abortion is so ugly a process that even its advocates cannot bear to look at it. In public debates, pro-choice speakers generally insist on banning any pictu...

January 31, 2007

Play "fair" with the liberals

Selwyn Duke recently exposed the duplicitous little game of "fairness" that Liberal Democrats in Congress are trying to impose on talk radio. I agree with his analysis and, to some degree, with his proposed countermeasures but I would like ...

December 5, 2006

How fresh was the poison polonium?

During the next few weeks of confusion and cover-up about the Litvinenko poisoning, look out for the word ‘lead', which may yet pin the tail on the Russian donkey. Polonium-210, the next-to-last link in the Uranium 8 radioactive decay ch...