“So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency.” — then State Senator Barack Obama on question about Kenyan birth during Illinois debate with Alan Keyes. (I have no interest in becoming a birther. But how can you ignore a quote like that?)
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Quote of the Day, John Boehner
“As long as I’m around here, I’m not going to allow a debt-ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt.” — House Leader John Boehner to President Obama today. Full story here.
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President Obama finds himself in a bit of a primary fight in Arkansas. He probably didn’t see that one coming. But with a Texas prison inmate scoring 42 percent of the vote against the incumbent POTUS in last week’s West Virginia primary, there must be a delicious scent of mischief in the air among discontent […]
Read the rest of this entry »Only in New York
It’s amazing that San Francisco, the city that sought to ban circumcision and Happy Meals in the same year, hasn’t thought of this first. The New York City Council is now pressing a law to force cab drivers to become anti-prostitution counselors. You read that right. City cabbies, under this new measure, would be required to take a […]
Read the rest of this entry »Newsday Column: Whither the Obama Stickers
One of the benefits of working in the political business is that you get to see lots of polling. It doesn’t always teach you new things — it usually just confirms nagging suspicions. But once in a while a statistic leaps off the page and demands to be noticed. One that keeps doing that to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Brown’s Coup de Grâce in California
California Governor Jerry Brown isn’t done with California yet. Not while it’s still breathing. The man who has held just about every public office in the Golden State short of dog catcher is facing a $16 billion budget deficit — he estimated it to be $9 billion last month. Brown’s answer? Hike taxes again. Mr. Brown is asking voters […]
Read the rest of this entry »In Defense of the ‘Neanderthals’
The amount of vile spewed against conservative Republicans for opposing gay marriage is head scratching. In a period of fewer than 10 years, the doctrinaire politically correct police have discovered the issue, come to agree with it, and declared opponents of same sex marriage knuckle-dragging Neanderthals. In the 1990’s, no one was talking about this issue. Civil unions was all […]
Read the rest of this entry »Will Obama Come Crashing Down in November?
I’ve long thought it a probability that President Obama will significantly lose re-election in November for the simple reason that he has not been a good President. That remains to be seen, but a few brave souls are emerging suggesting the same thing. ( A Texas inmate winning 41% of the vote against President Obama in the West Virginia […]
Read the rest of this entry »Newsday Column: US Must Face Debt
There’s an unopened credit card bill on my kitchen counter that I am trying not to think about. It’s been sitting there for days. There are three dental visits on it, a half-dozen trips to the gas station, a couple of boneheaded, “don’t-worry-I’ve-got-it” restaurant tabs, and at least two dozen other charges, half of which […]
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