Penny-Wise on Crime
For more than 200 years, the political left has been coming up with reasons why criminals should not be punished as much, or...
Opinion
Obama Speech: Dropping “Endowed By Their Creator”
When President Obama spoke to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute on September 15, he recited well-known words from the Declaration of Independence to...
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The “Civil War” Within the Republican Party
Karl Rove’s recent trashing of Christine O’Donnell, the winner of the Republican primary in Delaware having defeated the so-called moderate Republican Mike Castle,...
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Alpha and Omega: Idaho Wolf Relocation Gets a Hollywood Nod
Alpha and Omega features the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panetierre, Danny Glover, and Dennis Hopper (in one of his last performances) and...
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Poverty Created By and For Big Government
The Census Bureau recently shook up the nation with its report that the poverty rate for 2009 had increased dramatically over that of...
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GOP Brass Is RGC: Republicans Gone Crackers
As Pat Buchanan pointed out in a recent column, it is time once again for the Revenge of the Rockefeller Republicans in Delaware,...
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M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil
There are two categories of movie-goers: those who love M. Night Shyamalan’s films, and those who despise them. I count myself among those...
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The Money of Fools Part IV – Disarmament
One of the many words that sound so attractive, to people who do not think beyond the word, is "disarmament." ...
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A Global-warming Primer
Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam, by Brian Sussman, Washington, D.C.: World Net Daily, 2010, 224 pages, hardcover.Gideons International should...
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UAW Ignores Economic Reality
Organized labor, like the octopus of government, ignores the realities of ordinary life. America is in the midst of a depression and unemployment...
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“Liberals” and “Conservatives” – The Money of Fools, Part III
Among the many words that don't mean what they say, but which too many of us accept as if they did, are those...
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“Mudstream” Republicans Stab O’Donnell in Back
Some years ago, Donald Fehr, then the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, observed that baseball was the only industry...
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Betraying Friends to Friends
Seems the late Ernest C. Withers, a.k.a. “the Original Civil Rights Photographer” whose iconographic pictures recorded the turbulent 1960’s, was also a snitch...
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The Money of Fools, Part 2
Words are supposed to convey thoughts, but they can also obliterate thoughts and shut down thinking. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a...
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Liberalism Under Siege
Charles Krauthammer, in his Washington Post column (8/27/10), said, "Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed," pointing out that overwhelming majorities of...
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