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  • Senate, Help Your President -- Deep-Six ObamaCare! - November 18, 2009
    • "The political risks of failure are pretty high." A former congressional aide offered this ominous assessment following the House of Representatives' passage of "health...
  • Fort Hood: Obama's Wake-Up Call? - November 11, 2009
    • "He sounds like President Bush," I said to myself. President Barack Obama somberly spoke at the memorial service for the 13 killed during the Fort Hood shooting rampage....
  • When Sports-Lefties Go Political - October 28, 2009
    • We've now established that Rush Limbaugh cannot own an NFL team given his "unacceptable" (read: conservative) political comments. What about sports figures, executives...
  • Rushing Limbaugh - October 21, 2009
    • Why lie? A businessman forming a group to purchase a minority interest in the National Football League's St. Louis Rams approached popular conservative talk show host...
  • Health Care 'Reform' -- Getting Less for More - October 14, 2009
    • The Democratic-controlled Congress reached another hurdle in achieving health care "reform." The Senate Finance Committee passed a version, 14-9, with one Republican...
  • Hollywood, Media Misfire on Polanski and Letterman - October 7, 2009
    • Hollywood and the traditional media seem determined to flaunt their cluelessness. Director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty, in 1977, to one count of unlawful sex with a...
  • An Olympics We Can Believe In - September 30, 2009
    • Close your eyes, and pretend it's still the George W. Bush administration. In Afghanistan, more American service members died in August than in any month since the war...
  • The Letter Joe Wilson Should Write - September 23, 2009
    • Dear Madame Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, I apologized to President Obama for my "you lie" outburst during his recent speech. The President immediately accepted my...
  • Jimmy Carter and the Elvis Factor - September 16, 2009
    • Jimmy Carter strikes again! The former President is not content having left office with high inflation, high interest rates and high unemployment. Nor is he content with...
  • Race Card R.I.P. - September 9, 2009
    • The scenario usually plays out this way. A white person says something about a nonwhite person -- a statement perceived as racially insensitive, purportedly reinforcing...
  • This Just In ... Obama Is a Leftist! - September 2, 2009
    • "Now I'm truly scared." A friend wrote this after she watched Fox News' Glenn Beck's series on the "alarming number of far-left radicals the President is surrounded by"...
  • Health Care -- If Government Doesn't Do It, Who Will? - August 26, 2009
    • Assisting the needy in health care is a "moral imperative" -- not a constitutional right. The two are as different as a squirt gun and an Uzi. If something is not...
  • ObamaCare? Ask the British and Canadians - August 19, 2009
    • "We spend more on health care than most other countries." "We need to bring costs down." To address these complaints, enter ObamaCare -- which may or may not include a...
  • The Other 'Hispanic' Nominee - August 12, 2009
    • "For the first time in a long time," said one "Hispanic" man in the street interviewed on cable television, "I feel really proud." Others in the "Hispanic community"...
  • 10 'Teachable' Race Summits in Search of a Beer - August 5, 2009
    • President Obama teaches us to address "race-based" disputes by seating the parties involved -- along with Vice President Joe Biden -- at his table over mugs of beer. We...
  • Palin's Poll Numbers Falling! But What About Obama's?! - July 29, 2009
    • Stop the presses (or the tweets)! Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's numbers are falling! Why not concern ourselves with that as 2012 nears. What about Obama's numbers...
  • HWB -- Home While Black - July 22, 2009
    • Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, retained a lawyer. Why? He claims cops in...
  • Death of the World's Greatest Entertainer - July 15, 2009
    • The world's greatest entertainer died -- 19 years ago. His name is Sammy Davis Jr. At Michael Jackson's memorial, Motown founder Berry Gordy called the late, incredibly...
  • Obamanomics Supporters -- Cracks in the Dike - July 8, 2009
    • While the media stopped to cover Michael Jackson's death, several tremors rocked the foundation of something that actually affects us all -- Obamanomics. First, former...
  • '45 Million Americans' -- Who Are Those Guys? Part 3 - July 1, 2009
    • "President Barack Obama says that he can pay for his goal to provide health care insurance for every American without it. Why isn't that good enough for you?" Elder:...
  • '45 Million Americans' -- Who Are Those Guys? Part 2 - June 24, 2009
    • Last week's article on why 45 million Americans go without health care insurance touched a nerve and generated many questions and assertions: "You and your pesky...
  • '45 Million Americans' -- Who Are Those Guys? - June 17, 2009
    • About 45 million Americans lack health care insurance. Or do they? A pro-"universal health care" television host recently cited this widely accepted "fact." The number...
  • The Media's Switch From Attack Dog to Lap Dog - June 10, 2009
    • Back when our military failed to find stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, The New York Times apologized to its readers. Why? Before the war, the paper...
  • Who Drove the Chevy Off the Levee? - June 3, 2009
    • How on earth did this happen? General Motors, the 100-year-old car company that once employed more than 500,000 workers and had a 50 percent market share, just crumbled...
  • Pelosi vs. CIA: Why It Matters - May 27, 2009
    • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the CIA "misled" her about waterboarding. What difference does it make, in the grand scheme of things, whether Pelosi is telling the...
  • GOP: The Way Forward - May 13, 2009
    • "Republicans, act more like Democrats!" Actually, former Secretary of State Colin Powell put it somewhat differently when he offered his prescription to extricate the...
  • Questioning Terrorists With Compassion - May 6, 2009
    • "I am absolutely convinced (banning waterboarding) was the right thing to do," said President Obama at a recent press conference, "not because there might not have been...
  • The 100-Day Assault on America - April 29, 2009
    • Has it really been 100 days? Aided by an eagerly compliant Democratic-controlled Congress, a sycophantic media, and a bunch of squishy Republicans, President Obama has...
  • Tea Parties: 'Calling All Racists' - April 22, 2009
    • Did you know that only racists turned out for the recent nationwide "tea parties"?! "Let's be very honest about what this is about," actress/comedian Janeane Garofalo...
  • Rediscovering the 10th Amendment -- Too Little, Too Late - April 15, 2009
    • The New Deal, launched almost 80 years ago, represented a giant leap toward collectivism. But only in the last few weeks, as a result of President Barack Obama's New...
  • Obama: The Charming Menace to Peace and Prosperity - April 8, 2009
    • Did the traditional media, in full praise over Obama's "successful" European tour, note that he failed to secure anything of substance? After all, getting...
  • Political Courage -- British-Style - April 1, 2009
    • "Prime Minister," MEP Hannan said, "I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely the ability to say one thing in this...
  • Imagine if 'President McCain' Joked About the Special Olympics - March 25, 2009
    • For that matter, imagine if a President McCain mistook a White House window for a door; his secretary of Treasury had not paid taxes; he granted two dozen...
  • A Front-Page Story: President McCain's First 50 Days - March 18, 2009
    • He plans to change the role of government in virtually every aspect of society -- from education to health care to job creation to research and development...
  • Democrats Wanted Bush to Fail - March 11, 2009
    • "It's not easy for me," said Letterman, "because I'm thoughtful." The New York Times recently printed a piece about David Axelrod, the Chicago...
  • It's Not the Economy, Stupid -- It's Limbaugh - March 4, 2009
    • As the tax-and-spend policies of the Obama administration extend and deepen the recession, the new administration's strategy to deal with the fallout becomes...
  • Obama Shoots for Mars - February 25, 2009
    • But when the applause died down, the President took out a scattergun and attempted to hit everything in sight. He confidently asserted his and our intention...
  • Elgin Baylor: The Hero and the Race Card - February 18, 2009
    • Averaging 27.4 points and 13.5 rebounds per game in your 14-year pro career, you helped lead the Lakers to the NBA finals eight times and played in 11 NBA...
  • Obama in Prime Time: 7 Questions Left on Cutting Room Floor - February 11, 2009
    • What, no Rush Limbaugh? Obama even took a question from a "reporter" for the hyper-liberal Web site The Huffington Post. And, unlike Bush, the...
  • The 'Stimulus' Package -- All Economists Agree? - February 4, 2009
    • Reisman: That is a view held by a large school of economists, perhaps the majority school, for the last 60 years or so. That's the Keynesian school, but...