One of the surprises of the Iowa caucuses last night was the performance of former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. As a Pennsylvania resident I thought I had seen the last of him. After all, when he ran for reelection in 2006 he lost handily to Democrat Bob Casey, Jr. by a margin of 59-41, a spanking that was the highest … Continue reading
I’ve been out of the loop for a while but I just had to get back in with this one. So Moammar Gadhafi is dead. Another tyrant gone. It took a few months and didn’t cost one American casualty. Yet future (Vice) Presidential wanna be Marco Rubio has the nerve to go on Fox News to say … Continue reading
Texas Governor Rick Perry entered the race with quite a splash this weekend. He even managed to upstage Michele Bachmann’s rousing success in the Iowa Straw Poll, where somehow getting a mere 4,800 conservative Iowans to like you means you are qualified to be President. I wager the student body president of the University of Iowa … Continue reading
What with the goings on over the weekend in Abbottabad a few news items got lost in the shuffle. (BTW, wouldn’t it be rich if they had a sister city named Costellobad?) One item was Donald Trump’s reaction to the release of Obama’s long form birth certificate, something he had been urging for weeks. The Donald has … Continue reading
In a marvelous display of hypocrisy, even for a thrice married family values candidate, Newt Gingrich was for the Libya no-fly zone, before he was against it. Let’s watch the videotape: Even by Gingrich standards this was a pretty quick about face. The other GOP candidate rising in the current polls is Donald Trump, also coincidentally … Continue reading
Sarah Palin will run for President of the United States in 2012 as an independent party candidate. I don’t know why I didn’t see this before. It helps to explain her acting coy about a bid, her avoidance of the traditional trips to Iowa and New Hampshire and her increasing willingness to stick it in … Continue reading
It’s too easy to pick on the continuing gaffes of the embryonic Bachmann campaign. At a recent speech in New Hampshire she mentioned how that state started the American Revolution at the battle of Lexington and Concord. Not to put too fine a point on it but those battles occurred over the state line in Massachusetts. I guess … Continue reading
There is a scene from the Naked Gun 2 1/2 that takes place in a lonely bar. The camera pans over some sad sack drinkers and then across the odd artwork on the walls. They are posters of famous disasters; the Hindenburg explosion, the Titanic sinking and then…a smiling Michael Dukakis. The reference to his 1988 presidential campaign … Continue reading
Many of us are stunned by the attempted assassination of a Congresswoman in Arizona, but should we be? The intended victim, Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), had already spoken last year about being on Sarah Palin’s infamous “hit list.” You may recall, this list showed 20 members of Congress that Palin wanted to be removed. It included a map of the … Continue reading
Consider the recent run of Dancing With The Stars to be a proxy for the upcoming Republican presidential slugfest. As usual on DWTS, I had no idea who half the “stars” were. I did recognize Bristol Palin though. It’s hard not to these days as the Palin family brand has become more ubiquitous than McDonalds. Her last … Continue reading
A few days after the election President Obama took off for a 10-day trip through Asia. Along the way he’ll make stops at India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. Apparently this trip will cost an unprecedented $2 billion. That’s right, billions. This would be by far the most expensive presidential boondoggle ever. The voice of reason … Continue reading
I recently watched a movie called Idiocracy. It takes place 500 years in the future and is scarier than any horror movie, those are fake and this is all too real. The basic premise is that the type of people who are guests on the Jerry Springer Show are popping out kids at a higher rate than … Continue reading
