The more I read scripts that come out of Hollywood, the more I wonder how Tinseltown manages to make money. Oh wait, I remember – the Palace Guards hype the tripe so that the peasants don’t realize what’s about to
The Obama Administration, once again, is in need of a villain to serve as a political piñata, and it is now clear that Goldman Sachs has been selected to fill the villain void. Careful observers will note that Team Obama
An eclectic show this week as Rob, Peter and Mark are joined by columnist and author Shelby Steele who discusses Obama and how race and gender are defining his presidency and his quest to redefine America and the world. At
Hard to know what to make of this piece by Eliott C. McLaughlin — except, of course, that it pretty much sums up the state of journalistic thinking in the MSM these days, which includes a reflexive disdain for constitutional
As we watch Obama govern, we don’t need to look far to find where he learned Chicago-style politics. One of his professors was Alderman Edward M. Burke, boss of the Chicago City Council. After Alderman Fred Roti was convicted on
In Part One of this two-part series, I described the widely varying treatment of renowned directors Jafar Panahi and Roman Polanski by the leftist Hollywood establishment vis-a-vis their arrests and incarcerations, Polanski for child rape, Panahi for mere dissent. It
So Jason Levin is the total moron who put together the “Crash the Tea Party” web site. Levin is not your garden variety moron though. I mean it takes a pretty impressive level of idiocy to attempt to covertly infiltrate
As we watch Obama practice Chicago-style politics, it’s time to answer the question the old media ignores. Who were the key people in the Chicago Machine who helped advance Obama to power? We’ll start at the top. In Chicago, Mayor
As everyone from Jean-Paul Sartre to Tiger Woods has taught us, authenticity is a big thing in modern life. We want people, especially the ones we idolize or elect, to be who they say they are. We scorn the poseur
Judging by the happy grin on a young Barack Obama growing up in Indonesia, it’s not surprising that he would be sympathetic to Muslim culture but as president of the United States which is still over 80% Christian, he should
Last week, we reported that Obama administration Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin -who headed up Google’s lobbying shop before joining the administration – had been ensnared in the Google Buzz privacy imbroglio when his Gmail contacts were made publicly available through
It’s been several weeks now since the disastrous rollout of Google Buzz’s initial social networking platform. It was on February 9ththat Google Buzz unleashed its newest foray into social media to compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter. According
The biased writers at the Associated Press said the tea party in Nevada would draw angry protesters today. They were right. Supporters of Democratic Senator Harry Reid attacked the Tea Party Express bus today in Nevada. This statement was just
This article addresses those people everyone loves to make sport of: the agents. Agents have a difficult job, believe it or not. They represent a multitude of clients. Very often, they represent several clients that would each be right for
It’s a sad state of affairs when a “non-profit” activist group can get a grant from the federal government to launch a campaign to put commercial fisherman – who actually do hard work for a living – on the unemployment
Engadget: “Google is cooking up an experimental high speed broadband network, which is currently in the process of collecting applications and nominations from interested communities – there’s understandably a lot of competition to get your small town on Google’s radar,
According to AP reports, “Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama’s health care plan, in an unusual public break with bishops who say it would subsidize abortion.” Reportedly, 60 leaders of religious orders sent lawmakers a letter
The name was Fleming, Valentine Fleming. But to his four young boys, Bond creator Ian Fleming among them, he was “Mokie” — a baby-talk bastardization of “Smokie,” so called because he always had a pipe dangling from his lips, the
Bill Whittle posted this video essay on Big Journalism recently, which got us to thinking: what would today’s media make of the sentiments that animated the Declaration of Independence? You remember, this musty old thing: Not so much the famous
The Beatles had it best when they sung about the Tax Man. Now my advice for those who die (taxman) Declare the pennies on your eyes (taxman) ‘Cause I’m the taxman, Yeah, I’m the taxman. And you’re working for no
With the focus this week on health care’s “home stretch” and concerns about government limiting the ability of ordinary Americans to make choices about medical treatment, another threat to freedom is accelerating that could harm Americans’ abilities to start a
Every March, college students from around the country receive either a thick or a thin envelope. For many of them, this will be the biggest event in their lifetimes. It will be a source of pride for some; envy and
There’s an interesting piece out from the AFP entitled “Bold new Gaza play skewers Fatah and Hamas.” Apparently, there’s a play out in the Gaza Strip that rips Hamas and Fatah: A new play has shocked audiences in the Gaza
As I predicted, Scott Brown’s triumphant victory as the first Republican U.S. Senator in 38 years was only the beginning. Next came the retirement of disgraced U.S. congressman, Bill Delahunt (MA-10), which this columnist helped expose at this website. Now
As a gloomy, snowy February came to a close in the nation’s capital, so did the most recent circus attraction on Capitol Hill. Several days of congressional hearings on the Toyota recalls didn’t exactly deliver many more facts for Americans
