Category: Column

The definition of spin is to apply a slant or particular emphasis to information, as to persuade or deceive. President Barack Obama really has been pounding the pulpit the past few days, with the election right around the corner, with the help of his speechwriters. He sounds a lot like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. About […]

Two recent ads illustrate the great cultural divide in this nation and which parties and presidential candidates represent these competing worldviews. In the handling of the economy and national security, President Obama has shown he’s not capable of being the adult in the room. After four years of perpetual campaigning and cheerleading for his pet […]

Next week voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington will vote on whether to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. Given that there are good people on both sides of this issue, how are we to explain their opposing views? The primary explanation is this: Proponents and opponents ask two different questions. Proponents of same-sex marriage […]

Is there a mainstream media cover-up of an Obama administration cover-up in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead? Since Sept. 12, the San Francisco Chronicle, where I work, has run about 67 stories, items, editorials, columns and letters that mention Benghazi. In September, I criticized Susan […]

On MSNBC’s Ed Schultz program Friday night, the former chief of staff for Colin Powell, retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, said, of the Republican Party, “My party is full of racists … and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with […]

As a general rule, you get a much better read of a poll by looking at the top line numbers instead of digging down into the crosstabs. However, it has become a bigger issue this year because so many pollsters have been slanting their numbers towards Obama. They’re just starting to tighten things up now, […]

The government takes your tax dollars, wastes a ridiculous portion of them, and: then doles them out inefficiently. New data compiled by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee shows that, last year, the United States spent over $60,000 to support welfare programs per each household that is in poverty. The calculations are based on […]

There are stupid ideas and then there’s: this. President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are among the politicians whose past criticisms of the Electoral College system would draw new scrutiny if there is a split verdict in this year’s presidential election. National and swing state polls suggest it’s possible Republican Mitt Romney could win […]

You know what’s funny? In a recent Rolling Stone interview, Obama called Mitt Romney a “bullsh*tter” …: that’s: what’s funny. Now, it’s not funny in a ha-ha sense but funny in a you-gotta-be-kidding-me sense of the word. Obama accusing Romney of bunkum? Talk about the putz calling the kettle black. Obama’s entire life and rise to power […]

When President Obama started talking about “shovel-ready jobs,” who knew he was talking about the shovels needed to dig a hole deep enough to lower the bar to a level his campaign could clear. As if his campaign of “Romnesia,” Big Bird and “binders” wasn’t desperate enough, the stench of desperation was turned up to […]

When reading one of the endless stories about a just-released poll Thursday night, a pair of numbers struck my eye: 60 and 37. Those were the percentages of white voters supporting Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in the ABC/Washington Post tracking poll. Overall, the poll showed Romney leading Obama 50 to 47 percent. The reason […]

Jay Sekulow, Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law & Justice (ACLJ) says that President Obama and his administration knew that the US Embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya, was in fact a terrorist event. Emails reveal: that the Obama Administration knew within about two hours that the attacks on the American consulate in Libya was […]

President Barack Obama is charismatic and inspiring, but he won office too early in his career, and he is a victim of his own success. Sweeping into office with majorities in the Senate and House, Obama quickly passed a Democrats-only stimulus package that didn’t deliver as promised. Then he signed a health care package that […]

“For Immediate Release:: Shape Minds, Build Brands and Deliver Results with Game-Changing Public Relations” by the CEO of 5WPR,: Ronn Torossian: continues to receive rave reviews. The Publisher of The Real Deal Magazine, Amir Korangy said: “For too long, the PR game has been under the control of a handful of old-club-boys until Torossian came on the scene […]

Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidate for Senate in Indiana, was cruising along with a five point lead over his Democratic opponent, Congressman Joe Donnelly, when he opined during a debate that when a rape happened “it was what God intended.” His foray into theology almost cost him the election — and the Republicans yet another […]

As I am quoted in Fox News today in their current lead story online at: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/26/girls-creator-lena-dunham-compares-voting-to-barack-obama-to-losing-virginity/ Ronn Torossian, Founder of: 5WPR: said: “What is this country coming to if I cannot allow my young kids to watch campaign ads for the incumbent President of theUnited States?:  Presidential campaign ads shouldn’t be R-Rated — it’s offensive and inappropriate. […]

We already knew that: Richard Mourdock: is a principled, fiscally responsible conservative. But, what this latest abortion controversy has proven is that he’s a full spectrum, Christian conservative who has the courage of his convictions. “I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize life is that gift from God. And I […]

Now: this is one classy ad. The top comment on YouTube? Right? Doesn’t it? Let me also note that if Barack Obama is “your first time,” it’s not going to be a pleasant experience because he’s not going to call again afterward, he’s going to run up a ton of debt on the credit cards he […]

It’s insulting to the United States to have bureaucrats from the corrupt United Nations here monitoring our elections like we’re Haiti. That’s why it’s: so gratifying to see Texas giving them exactly the respect they deserve. Don’t mess with Texas elections. That’s the double-down message Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott delivered Thursday to poll watchers affiliated […]

As the Mitt Romney wave sweeps through the country and gathers momentum, both inside and outside the swing states, a number of new Senate contests are opening new opportunities for Republican takeaways. In each of these races, the polling indicates that a Republican victory is possible where once it was unthinkable. The foremost of these […]

In Election 2000, Florida was the decisive state in the Electoral College. In 2004, Ohio was the ultimate battleground that put George W. Bush over the top. This year, it might come down to Wisconsin. That’s a state President Obama won by 14 points four years ago. But Wisconsin has gone through an amazing two […]

Three days after the bloody 9/11 siege on our consulate in Benghazi, the Taliban waged an intricately coordinated, brutal attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan. The murderous jihadists released video exactly one month ago this week showing off their training exercises in preparation for the assault. Where are the questions? Where’s the accountability? Where’s the […]

In the third and final debate, Barack Obama scored huge points with the media, college kids and die-hard liberals — in other words, his base — when he mocked Mitt Romney’s concern about our historically small Navy. “But I think Governor Romney maybe hasn’t spent enough time looking at how our military works,” the president […]

OK, President Obama, if you and your defenders insist on denying that you’ve repeatedly apologized for America, then let’s quit mincing words and acknowledge you’ve done worse than apologize. That works for me. Maybe it is technically inaccurate to attribute the word apology to you, because you would have to identify with America more before […]

The president of the United States in the last debate chose to go on the attack against his challenger, Mitt Romney — and once again largely failed to convince the American people that he was the more presidential alternative. But how did the once-messianic incumbent find himself in this fix of playing the catch-up role […]