July 24, 2011

Mortenson and Obama: Putting the Fiction in Nonfiction

Last month, former Illinois teacher Deborah Netter filed a lawsuit against a bestselling author, the Associated Press reported. The damages alleged were in compensation "for herself and all other individuals or entities, who purchased [the book] and ...

May 6, 2010

Our Dangerously Boring Celebutard Culture

Back in 2008, which strangely seems like it was both yesterday and 20 years ago, I appeared on a radio program with a candidate for public office I'll call "Dr. X." He was running for office against a well-known incumbent, or I should say, ...

March 24, 2010

Here's the good news about Obamacare

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December 18, 2009

Enviro-Marxists Discover the Real Scourge of the Planet: Human Beings

"Climate change," the scam formerly known as "global warming," has been exposed as the crypto-Marxist hoax many of us long suspected. In Copenhagen, at the ridiculous charade of a "summit" on the dangers of producing rec...

September 10, 2009

I Volunteer to be the Normal American Czar

I have been accused of being one of those bitter clinging, knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, flyover dwelling types who wouldn't give President Barack Hussein Obama the benefit of the doubt if my life depended on it. Some of my friends on the Left t...

August 27, 2009

Pesky voters no obstacle to Obama health plans

President Obama has a problem, one familiar to smarmy salesmen since the beginning of time. His product stinks, and consumers know it.  The packaging looked nice at first. The copy was well-written and well-delivered, but the dogs won't eat the ...

December 12, 2006

Anointing Barack

The latest excuse for the media to publish hagiographic photos suggesting a place on Mount Rushmore, inaccurately apply adjectives like "moderate," "centrist" and "non-ideological," and otherwise indulge its embarrassing...

November 7, 2006

Vets Tell Dems: Get a Different Mascot

Rahm Emanuel, head of the Democrats' House takeover effort, wants to win the Illinois 6th Congressional District more than any other seat  in the House of Representatives. It is Henry Hyde's old seat. As Chairman of the House Judiciar...

August 26, 2006

You Don't Win in Politics Playing Only Defense

The New York Times reportedаthis past weekаthat most Americans don't see the connection between the war in Iraq and defeating our current determined, patient enemy, one dedicated to killing Americans and ultimately destroying Western civilization. Sa...

April 2, 2006

Caspar Weinberger: Remembering a Great Man

On Sunday, December 14 2003, my cell phone rang at 4:30 am. It was my boss, WLS Program Director Michael Packer, informing me that Saddam Hussein had been dragged out of his spider hole, and that as a result, I needed to drag my rear end in to work A...

July 25, 2005

Questions for John Roberts

If I had the opportunity to ask John Roberts a few questions before his Supreme Court confirmation, sure I'd want to know all that important stuff about his 'judicial philosophy,' and the reach of the Commerce Clauses, but at this point I'm more inte...

June 16, 2005

What's a bigger national embarrassment - Gitmo or Durbin?

After his most recent display of malignant partisanship and disregard for our country's security, people in the rest of the country are no doubt wondering, as one writer here speculated yesterday, whether Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has lost his min...