Small Children Give Big Landslide to Obama
It’s now official: the children of America have spoken. In its fourteenth quadrennial presidential poll, the Weekly Reader tabulated the votes of over 125,000 school children, ranging from...
View ArticleAn Observer’s Guide to Election Night
Finally, the election campaign is nearing its demise, and its death throes will be televised! But what to watch? And more importantly, how to watch? The presidential election will, of course, attract...
View ArticleWanted: Experienced Editor. Send Resume to B. H. Obama, Chicago.
Barack Obama has, with justification, earned a reputation as a talented and inspirational speaker. Furthermore, by all reports, he actually writes most of his own speeches, which makes him almost...
View ArticleA Post-Mortem on Conservative Election Post-Mortems
The election results from this past Tuesday provided some sobering news for Republicans: in addition to losing the White House, the GOP saw at least six senate seats and nineteen or more congressional...
View ArticleAmericans: Willing to Make a Sacrifice, as Long as it’s Not Too Much Trouble
My 93-year-old father, along with all of the other veterans at his assisted living facility, were honored yesterday for their service to the country. He is, I suppose, a member of what Tom Brokaw...
View ArticleEverything Vibrates: Eagles Drop a Bomb in the Laps of the Supreme Court
The Fraternal Order of Eagles (FOE), an organization founded in 1898, has been in the ten commandments racket since the early 1950s, when it handed out copies of the Mosaic law as part of its efforts...
View ArticleRod Blagojevich: Still Crazy After All These Years
With news of the scandal surrounding Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich grabbing the nation’s attention, it’s worth remembering that out of the last seven men who previously held that office, three...
View ArticleRoberts: Supreme Court Works Best When Everyone Is Like Me
“For the first time in its history, every member of the United States Supreme Court is a former federal appeals court judge. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in a lively and surprising talk a couple...
View ArticleSantelli: The Hope of Audacity
The term chutzpah – a Hebrew term for shameless audacity — is often defined by analogy: it’s like a man who murders his parents and then pleads for leniency because he’s an orphan. Or it might be like...
View ArticleCartoonist Makes a Monkey out of New York Post
As Sigmund Freud might say: sometimes, a chimp is just a chimp. Sean Delonas, editorial cartoonist for the New York Post, stirred up a hornet’s nest of criticism when, on February 18, the Post...
View ArticleJim Bunning Death Watch, Part 1
In his career, Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) has worn a variety of hats. He started out as a major league baseball player, where he pitched for the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies and was good...
View ArticleJim Bunning Death Watch, Part 2
Jim Bunning’s current status is: Self-destructive. The suicide watch has been posted at Sen. Jim Bunning’s office. Or, at least, it should be. In the latest chapter of this increasingly bizarre saga,...
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