Year: 2012

Obamacare is a tax. It’s not a tax. Politicians and pundits are all over the map on this. A tax, a mandate, a ham sandwich…the answer depends on who you ask. But none of this matters because, whatever else it is, it’s currently the law of the land. But how did this happen? During the […]

“A step in the right direction.” That’s what Barack Obama said in Poland, Ohio, about Friday’s Bureau of Labor Statistics unemployment report, which showed only 80,000 net new jobs and unemployment remaining at 8.2 percent. The thought will occur to many, not all of them Obama detractors, that this was at best a baby step. […]

John Burton has achieved the impossible. As the author of the 2004 bill that led to California’s foie gras ban, the crusty former state senator, now chairman of the California Democratic Party, has made eating liver cool. Before the ban went into effect last Sunday, high-end restaurants offered last-bite foie gras fare, and frantic foodies […]

Random observations from the media over the last few days:: : :  Great op-ed: : by: Alan Dershowitz in The Huffington Post on Sheldon Adelson:  — Some key excerpts: “It’s hard to find anyone who has done as much for the Jewish community as Sheldon Adelson. Adelson grew up in: Boston: in near poverty and is a shining example of the American […]

Trying to choose the greatest pitcher of all time is at least as difficult as trying to choose the greatest hitter of all time. In both cases, the best we can do is narrow down the list. Outside a charmed circle of five batters, no one had both a higher lifetime batting average and a […]

Nothing is likely to get an argument started among sports fans faster than attempts to name the all-time greatest in any sport, or even the all-time greatest in a particular aspect of a sport. However, in baseball, we can at least narrow down the list of possibilities — considerably, in fact — when it comes […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Good news: The Waldo Canyon fire, which forced 32,000 residents (including our family) to flee, claimed two lives and destroyed 347 homes, is now 100 percent contained. Bad news: Radical environmentalists won’t stop blowing hot air about this year’s infernal season across the West. Al Gore slithered out of the political […]

The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously remarked that, “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.” I’ve always liked that quote, but I think it misleads. That two […]