Year: 2012

All the male commentators and pundits got it wrong! Marianne Gingrich’s sorrowful remembrances of her marriage to Newt Gingrich have indeed arisen to bite the former speaker’s candidacy. Both the Rasmussen and the Monmouth University Polls show Mitt Romney pulling ahead of Gingrich in Florida. After the former speaker opened the primary with a 9-point […]

Remember when Don Imus saw his cushy CBS Radio and MSNBC career go up in smoke in 2007 when he tried very early one morning to make one of his fake misanthropic jokes about the Rutgers women’s basketball team being “nappy-headed hoes”? Black activists demanded his firing. Advertisers fled. The corporate suits, appalled and fearful […]

“From this arises an argument: whether it is better to be loved than feared. I reply that one should like to be both one and the other; but since it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.”: ‘ […]

There is nothing wrong with using the words oriental, niggardly, or minority in a conversation. However, I don’t like the word “African-American”, or anything-American for that matter. We’re all Americans and those dashes just divide us unnecessarily. Likewise, we’d all be better off if we were willing to admit that there was nothing wrong with […]

The Republican candidates’ circular firing squad now seems to be using machine guns. Whoever the eventual “last man standing” turns out to be, he may not be standing very tall or very steadily on his feet — and he may be a pushover for Barack Obama in the general election, thanks to fellow Republicans. Whether […]

The news media seem obsessed with the serial affairs of a younger Newt Gingrich back in the last century. The anger of his second of three wives mysteriously became national news on ABC’s “Nightline” on the eve of the South Carolina primary. Millions watched Mrs. Gingrich II complain that Newt and the present Mrs. Gingrich […]

The Republican re-embrace of former Speaker Newt Gingrich says a lot about whom he sees as his opponent — and it isn’t just President Barack Obama. It’s the media. If not for major media’s embrace, Obama would still be sitting in the Senate, perhaps mulling another run for the presidency. A UCLA economist-political scientist recently […]

Summertime is usually when TV networks air repeats of shows we’ve already seen. In his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, the president got a five-month jump on the summer season by re-running a class-envy video he has broadcast more times than local stations have shown episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show.” Instead of […]

Toward the end of his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama observed that Washington politicians should learn from the example of the U.S. military: “When you’re marching into battle, you look out for the person next to you, or the mission fails.” Obama recalled the successful Navy SEAL mission that, under his watch, […]

You know politicians are serious when they move from campaigning to governing. Something like that may be happening on the Republican campaign trail — but, unfortunately, not at the Obama White House. Campaigning clearly carried the day for Newt Gingrich in South Carolina, where he beat Mitt Romney by a 40 percent to 28 percent […]

To talk with Gingrich supporters is to enter a world where words have no meaning. They denounce Mitt Romney as a candidate being pushed on them by “the Establishment” — with “the Establishment” defined as anyone who supports Romney or doesn’t support Newt. Gingrich may have spent his entire life in Washington and be so […]

If the world treated WW2 the same way we treat the “War on Terrorism” and the “conflict in the Middle East” this is what it would have been like… March 15/16, 1939:: Nazis take Czechoslovakia. (Other nations give mild condemnation of Nazi attack but urge Czechoslovakia to be restrained in their response.) May 22, 1939: Nazis […]

Most people have heard of Nostradamus, the 16th century ‘prophet’ who was able to ‘see into the future.’ Almost 500 years after his death, Nostradamus’s books are STILL selling, so there are plenty of people who must think Nostradamus was on to something. Back in college I decided to read one of Nostradamus’s books to […]

I spent four hours driving back from a July 4th vacation this weekend and during that time I pondered a few things I thought were worth sharing… ‘ Despite what many people believe, the Constitution does not use the phrase “separation of Church and State.” What it actually says about religion in the First Amendment […]