A Catholic Pope, Revisted
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 20:10
By the time you read this, the world's billion-plus Roman Catholics may have a new pope. And when the black smoke of Tuesday's indecisive first vote has turned to the white smoke of final decision, don't be surprised if the cardinals have chosen... a Catholic pope.After the election of Benedict XVI in 2005, I wrote that the cardinals had correctly ignored the desires of some people to install a wimpish equivocator willing bend with the winds of compromise. I believe the cardinals will show the same wisdom in 2013.
Read MoreGetting Wise to Government Lies
Thu, 03/07/2013 - 07:00
Take President Obama and his Cabinet of Liars, please. We all know what dirty tricks they played to try and stop the sequester's automatic budget cuts from happening. They spent weeks trying to frighten the America people into believing the country would collapse into chaos and suffering if the federal government's sequester-forced spending cuts went into effect.
Read MoreGet Out of the Weeds
Thu, 02/28/2013 - 21:00
Our Obama Economy is still stuck in a ditch by the side of the road. Our campaigner in chief is running around the country pushing for higher taxes and no spending cuts and crying, "The federal sky will fall!" if Congress doesn't stop the puny 10 percent sequester from happening.In Washington the incompetents and cowards in Congress can't get our fiscal house in order, and they're too stupid or self-serving to realize they are wrecking the greatest economic machine humans have ever created.
Read MoreThe Real Answer to the Immigration Question
Thu, 02/21/2013 - 21:31
America has almost 12 million illegal immigrants.Many of them came here on visas and never left.But about 60 percent of them walked in from just one country -- Mexico. Though the stalled Obama Economy has caused about 900,000 to go home since 2007, there are still about 6 million Mexicans living in the United States who've sneaked across our borders.Everyone from Marco Rubio to John McCain and our golfer in chief are trying to figure out how to deal with the illegal immigrants we have already and prevent future waves of Mexican migrants.
Read MoreState of the Union: Failure
Thu, 02/14/2013 - 20:21
Our failure in chief gave us his annual blurred vision of America again Tuesday night.Based on his State of the Union message, Barack Obama's eyesight is as ideologically impaired as ever.
Read MorePedophilia is the Problem
Fri, 02/08/2013 - 01:13
The bosses of the Boy Scouts of America surprised everyone this week by postponing their decision on whether to allow gay leaders and gay Scouts to join their ranks.If the BSA's long-standing ban on gays is lifted by national officials in May, the choice to admit gays may be left to local Boy Scout chapters -- as it should be.
Read MoreMickelson Chokes
Thu, 01/24/2013 - 20:27
Phil Mickelson choked on a gimme putt this week, but it wasn't on a golf course.According to the AP's golf writer, America's most popular golfer "put his popularity on the line with polarizing comments about how much he has to pay in state and federal taxes."
Read MoreObama Ignores Rational Answer
Thu, 01/17/2013 - 22:20
What do Al Hunt of Bloomberg News, David Gregory of "Meet the Press" and President Obama have in common -- besides their liberal politics?They all send their kids to Sidwell Friends School.With campuses in Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Md., the highly selective private school is where the Clintons and the Gores sent their kids, along with Joe Biden's grandchildren.
Read MoreJunk Laws
Thu, 01/10/2013 - 20:49
We have junk food, junk mail and junk bonds. Now, thanks to our dysfunctional and devious Congress, we have junk laws like the "Taxpayer Relief Act."Junk laws are really nothing new. The people we send to Washington to represent us have been passing legislation larded with pork or special privileges for their friends in business, agriculture and labor since the country was born.
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