September 6, 2007
Verbal blunders: Not just for kids
Miss Teen South Carolina could have resorted to the typical beauty pageant ploy. You know, the one where the contestant simply restates whatever question she was asked and then shifts to a stirring call for world peace, a cure for AIDs, and an end to global warming.
But Miss Teen South Carolina was more adventurous. Asked [...]
August 31, 2007
Another Law We Don’t Need
Let’s say you own a retail establishment in Illinois. Some of your employees want you to close on Sundays so they can enjoy the day off. It’s not a bad idea, especially when you consider the overhead you’d save.
There is one problem. Unless your competition also is closed when you are, [...]
August 19, 2007
Don’t ask, don’t tell, just pander
Somewhere, Walter Jenkins is smiling.
Mr. Jenkins was at the center of a 1964 White House scandal. A close personal advisor to President Lyndon Johnson for 25 years, he was arrested in the men’s room of a Washington YMCA for what in those innocent days was termed disorderly conduct. This wasn’t Mr. Jenkins’ first encounter [...]
July 18, 2007
Larry Flynt: Democratic Moralist
Viewing Larry Flynt merely as a pornographer who’s made a lot of money exploiting people’s vices doesn’t do him justice. He’s also the conscience of the Democratic Party.
Flynt pays money to procure salacious information about members of Congress and high-ranking government officials. Last week, he took credit for outing Louisiana Senator David Vitter. [...]
July 11, 2007
Valenti an LBJ stalwart until the end
Jack Valenti’s autobiography, “This Time, This Place,” was published last May. In terms of promoting the book, it was bad timing. He died in April.
Still, it’s always interesting to see Democrats rewrite history. A few months ago I reviewed professional Clinton toady Terry McAuliffe’s book.
In a feat of Herculean proportions, Mr. Valenti’s [...]
June 27, 2007
The Declaration of Independence, 2007
The Declaration of Independence, 2007
Many times I think of just how fortunate I am to have been born in the United States. What a blessing!
There are so many places on this earth where mere existence is a daily struggle. Adversity and privation are the rule rather than the exception.
Our destiny was largely shaped [...]
June 20, 2007
Mrs. Clinton discovers women with needs
Forget about your soccer moms, security moms and NASCAR dads. If Hillary Clinton has her way, 2008 will be the year of women with needs. According to a campaign spokesperson, New York’s junior senator is a veritable magnet for “women with needs.”
The theme emerged after a recent Washington Post – ABC News poll [...]
June 13, 2007
Redemption is divine. And so quick.
Hallelujah, brothers and sisters. Paris Hilton has already seen the light.
In a collect call to Barbara Walters, herself most recently known for playing straight man, if you’ll pardon the expression, to Rosie O’Donnell, the hotel heiress, party girl, and aspiring theologian poured her diminutive heart out.
She’s gotten, like, much more spiritual, and is, like, [...]
June 6, 2007
Giving new meaning to working the polls
There are more than 200,000 minutes until next year’s presidential election. And I’m starting to think I might hate every one of them.
This political junkie is getting burned out early this cycle. If one of the Democratic candidates weren’t wearing a black pantsuit most of the time, it would be tough telling them [...]
May 30, 2007
Ripping off old folks, but for a good cause
Ripping off old folks, but for a good cause
A relative has been in the hospital, and then rehab at a nursing home, for a couple of months. The other day I took the 90-year-old over to his house. We weren’t there for a minute when the phone rang. It was a telemarketer. [...]
May 23, 2007
Joe McCarthy: Gone but certainly not forgotten
It would be remiss of me not to note that this month marks 50 years since the death of Senator Joe McCarthy. What would Commies, pinkos, socialists, leftists, liberals, and their lackeys and handmaidens have done for the past half century if they didn’t have old Joe to kick around?
Even after all this time, [...]
May 16, 2007
Tommy Thompson tries some bathroom humor
If you don’t know who Tommy Thompson is, don’t feel uninformed. He doesn’t rate the media coverage of really important people like Paris Hilton.
Like many others, Mr. Thompson is running for president. His background is not unimpressive. He served as Wisconsin’s governor for an unprecedented four terms. He also ran, with [...]
May 8, 2007
Welfare Queen Welcomed at the White House
Pomp and pageantry were the order of the day at the White House Monday. In honor of Queen Elizabeth’s journey to the Colonies, President and Mrs. Bush hosted their first, and perhaps only, white-tie dinner of his presidency.
Maybe it’s because of my Irish heritage. Maybe it’s because of my republican nature. Maybe [...]
May 2, 2007
Packing heat can save lives
If only Virginia Tech’s mass murderer had read the school’s policy handbook. He would have learned the college was a gun-free zone. So then he wouldn’t have brought any guns on campus and the tragedy could have been averted.
That’s roughly the logic used by many proponents of gun control. Adding more laws, [...]
April 25, 2007
Hillary, aka Senator Clinton, plays the name game
Kissing up to the Most Reverend Al Sharpton and his associates last week, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton reverted to the singsong Southern drawl she employs before selected audiences:
“When Ah walk into the Oval Office in 2009, Ah’m afraid Ah’m going to lift up the rug and Ah’m going to see so much stuff under there,” [...]
April 11, 2007
Imus’ selective acts of contrition
In terms of media saturation, Don Imus is this month’s Anna Nicole Smith. The radio host has had a good thing going. His program is broadcast on more than 70 radio stations and cable network MSNBC most weekday mornings.
Along with big money, Imus earned standing among politicians and media personalities. Democratic Senator [...]
April 4, 2007
Mr. McAuliffe’s Excellent Adventures
Democratic bagman Terry McAuliffe is one awesome guy. If you don’t believe that, just ask him.
McAuliffe’s new book, “What a Party! My Life Among Democrats,” is an inadvertently hilarious exercise in narcissism. The former chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and fundraiser extraordinaire is as self-absorbed as his comrade Bill Clinton.
McAuliffe writes [...]
March 28, 2007
Searching for the Great Right Hope
Conservatives, long the backbone of the Republican Party, are dissatisfied. For many, the current crop of GOP presidential candidates is about as exciting as a Barry Manilow concert.
Leading the pack in the polls is former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Admirers view him as the gutsy guy who straightened his city out first [...]
March 21, 2007
Besieged Bush can stop the nonsense
Democrats are having a blast since taking control of Congress. A day without something new to investigate is like a day without sunshine for them.
Dismissed U.S. attorneys. Valerie Plame. Iraq . The Federal Communications Commission. Conditions at Walter Reed Hospital . The FBI looking for terrorists. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s delivery of housing grants. [...]
March 15, 2007
Policy makers look to the stars
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is one left-leaning gent, even by Democratic standards. The non-partisan National Journal earlier this month ranked him the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. In the company of such stalwarts as Teddy Kennedy, Hillary the pantsuit and Barack the empty suit, that’s a noteworthy, if dubious, achievement.
Comparing American soldiers to [...]
