"Carteresque Mistakes": Chris Matthews Mouths "C" Word for "O"

So what does it augur when a one-time Carter staff member mouths the "C" word, "Carter", in reference to President Obama and his recent string of events without success, to put it in diplomatic terms? If Detroit...

A City in Despair: Detroit Cannot Even Bury Its Dead

This is the scenario: a major US city whose economic underpinnings have virtually died, which cannot now bury its dead. For Detroit, a very pathetic fall from the powerhouse Detroit once was that spewed out guns,...

Transnationalism: Muslims-Blasphemy Ban; Obama-US in World Court

If you don't like transnational corporations because they can hide profits around the world to avoid taxes, shifts jobs at will to the lowest cost workers, avoid pollution laws we create in first-world nations,...

Obama's Swelling Ego and the Berlin Wall Anniversary

Distancing himself once again from Western values and experience, adding to return of the bust of Winston Churchill to its donors, the Brits, President Obama has just recently refused to attend the memorial...

Hey, While We're At It, Justice for Nuremberg Zwei und Zwanzig!

The model of fairness and objectivity that our dear president and his philosopher king attorney general Holder have begun to represent has made me think how much evil has been done in the name of a pseudo-Justice...

Reaping Whirlwind of Math Ignorance- What Else Don't They Know?

At one time, the public school system of New York City was considered the best in the world and was the one that had produced more Nobel Prize winners than any other system. Now, thanks to social promotion, the...

Tucson School District's Race-Based Discipline Policy

Is this what has happened to MLK's vision of a world where you were judged on the content of your character and not the color of your skin? Is this what happens as the thirty-somethings and people in their...

Larry David Urinates on Pic of Jesus in "Curb Your Enthusiasm"

Here's a story that makes you realize what "multi-cultural" really means! Hey, no peeing on a picture of Moses or Rabbi Hillel, but there is this other Jewish fella that you're allowed to mock to what end?  I...

Senate Health Care Bill: Shape Up! Or Pay Extra!

This writer, certified as a personal trainer, has to admit to being pleasantly surprised by an overlooked aspect of the Health Care bill that has recently come out of committee. The aspect?  That the US...

Whip Comes Down: Hotel defaults, foreclosures rise in California

"When the whip comes down"- The Rolling Stones. The real estate California earthquake has begun. The shake, rattle and roll of this news could be the first tremor of the oft-predicted commercial real estate crash....

Americans Back Iran Strike if Nuke Talks Fail

We Americans are willing to talk, but we expect results. As was pointed out in the Italian press at the onset of the War in Iraq, war is not a taboo for the American people. We will fight to defend our democratic...

New Republic Editor-In-Chief: 'President is a Narcissist'

Narcissist. Other "unqualified" individuals besides myself have begun to mouth the word "narcissist" in a fateful coupling with another word: "Obama".Yes, and who would the latest "unqualified" individual be? Why...

FDIC Broke? World Bank Broke in 12 Months?

"Promise her anything, but giver her Arpege!" was something I heard every Christmas as a child. I understood that to give Arpege, though, you had to have the coin in hand. It seems that bankers, of all people,...

Saturday Night Live Goes After Obama: "Jack" and "Nada" Done

Saturday Night Live took off its otherwise liberal-media-establishment gloves to go after our president, letting him defend himself from charges by the right that he has been trying to change the US into a Soviet...

Pelosi, Crocodile Tears and the Left's Violence in the 1970s

Nancy Pelosi's selective memory was on display just recently as many of you well remember. What the younger readers and writers here won't remember so well as some people who lived through the era are the many...