It’s amazing how they get religion at election time, how Republicans like John McCain who presided over the busting of the Clinton balanced budget now, with arch sanctimony, call for a balanced budget. The Republican Congress under the heel of their beloved Republican president, George W. Bush, threw the balance out the window.
Now McCain promises [...]
Well, surely the Obama people need to be gracious in victory and to be diplomatic and to understand the truth that there are losers in the world and then there are poor losers.
There are Clinton people, we are advised in the Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, who still huff and puff that their candidate, who [...]
It’s a small thing but illuminating. Well, maybe not a small thing at all.
“The Rays are 20 games over .500 for the first time in franchise history (52-32). Last season after 84 games, they were 18 under .500.” So says the Boston Globe. So says everyone. They’re wrong, of course.
The Rays are not at all [...]
What’s the beef with performance enhancing substances?
Oh, we hear of the deeeeeep concern for the health of the athletes. We hear, too, about the true anxiety over youngsters polluting their bodies with harsh consequences exactly as if they were adults. We hear, as well, that such things just aren’t natural.
Mostly, we hear and believe that [...]
What kind of chump state do I live in?
The Drug Enforcement Administration has to show us up as a bunch of pip-squeaks. Here we are the richest state in the Union and all they can come up with is a few measly bucks!
The DEA publishes today in the Wall Street Journal a vast list of [...]
Here’s a tip of the hat to President Bush for pulling off the North Korea nuclear success.
Bush did it right: he was firm yet not provocative; he used diplomacy rather than brute force; he worked with others to get things done rather than resorting the failed Cowboy Diplomacy that so seldom works; he was patient [...]
Just wondering: Why do we care what the Founders thought?
Not at all in any offfense at the Supreme Court’s ruling on guns, but I wonder why a Constitution written 200 years ago must be so faithfully followed as if there had been no changes, no developments, no new wisdoms whatever since those ancients penned things.
We have our lives decided [...]
Seeing that Monet’s dismal “Le Bassin aux Nymphéas” has just sold for $80.4 million, I figure it’s finally time for me to sell my own Monet, “La Maison du Chat.”
It’s been in the family for years. Monet used to come around and offer to paint ceilings and things for my grandparents. He was a sad [...]
At first you could think, “So what else is new?”
The Bush “Justice” department is exposed as an anti-American, anti-justice assemblage of hacks and ideologues.
What’s new, in what we already knew, is that it is the Justice Department itself which decries the abandonment of justice by the conservatives who threw out the window the laws, rules and [...]
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