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Obama the peace maker…
Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 7:35 AM
Archives for 2011
Temper tantrums over Facebook changes
Saturday, September 24, 2011 at 7:56 AM
You’d think the free-loading couch potatoes who use Facebook are actually paying for it. Never mind getting what you pay for, the indignant, ungrateful, spoiled trolls who populate this community of virtual friends are getting far more than they deserve. So they should shut up already with their complaints about new apps that allow Facebook to prioritize their inane… Read more.
Jennifer serving revenge cold to Brad (and Angie)
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 2:09 PM
Just last week Brad Pitt was being hailed in the media for his performance in the baseball-themed movie, Moneyball. In fact, there seemed to be an open conspiracy among critics to ensure that it earns him his first Oscar. Yet all of that seems to have been lost in the fog of gossip this week… Read more.
Hayekian Markets vs. Keynesian Economics
Friday, September 23, 2011 at 5:28 AM
Last week there were record gains on Wall Street; this week there are record losses. But trying to get even the savviest market analyst to provide a rational explanation for this is rather like trying to get a monkey to do algebra. In fact, major markets around the world continue to rise and fall based… Read more.
Showdown at UN over Palestinian statehood
Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 6:34 AM
I have written repeatedly that Hell will freeze over before the Palestinians and Israelis resolve all of the issues that are forestalling Palestinian statehood. Here, for example, is the utter cynicism I expressed when President Obama began aping former President Bush by making patently fatuous pronouncements in this respect: Given this Bush precedent, not to mention the 60-year futility of… Read more.
Women complain about Obama’s all-boys club
Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 5:24 AM
Just two days ago I had cause to jump all over author Joe McGinnis for writing a biography of Sarah Palin that was more worthy of a hack reporter for the National Enquirer than the critically acclaimed author he purports to be. Well today I am compelled to comment on another book. This one is… Read more.
The Beatles were Civil Rights pioneers?
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 5:14 AM
I have always been a bigger fan of the politics The Beatles advocated than of the songs they sang. I especially admired their anti-war views which, to their credit, they actually sang about in songs like Revolution and Give Peace a Chance. But it seems I may have just cause to become an even bigger… Read more.
A tweet: Kissing Trump’s … brass ring
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 6:28 PM
What is it with Republican presidential candidates queuing up to seek Donald Trump’s blessings as if he were the friggin’ Pope?! Last week Rick Perry ascended the stairs of his gilded, eponymously named tower in NYC for this purpose; Mitt Romney is scheduled to do the same next week; and Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann made their… Read more.
A tweet: Obama on debt and taxes
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 12:01 PM
This morning Obama unveiled a comprehensive package of reasonable and balanced measures to cut the debt by $3 trillion and reform America’s tax code, which is now so heavily rigged in favor of rich folks that a school teacher pays a higher tax rate than a billionaire investor like Warren Buffet. Yet, true to form,… Read more.
Sarah Palin’s ‘fetish for black guys’
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 5:35 AM
A critically acclaimed author like Joe McGinniss writing a biography of Sarah Palin is akin to a critically acclaimed TV critic like Tom Shales writing a review of The Jersey Shore. It’s no wonder therefore that the New York Times dismissed McGinniss’s book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, as nothing more than “unsubstantiated gossip… Read more.