On December 5, 1502, during his fourth voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus and his crew were trapped in a storm. Columbus wrote: For nine days I was as one lost, without hope of life. Eyes never beheld the sea so angry, so high, so covered with foam. The wind not only prevented our progress, but offered no opportunity to run behind any | Read More »
On Friday afternoon October 2 the International Olympic Committee in Copenhangen, Denmark smacked down Barack Obama and his campaign for the Chicago Olympic Games, giving the president a political black eye. By 6 AM on Friday, October 9 the Nobel Prize committee in Oslo, Norway had awarded Obama the 2009 Peace Prize, placing an international halo over his head. From Copenhagen to Oslo in | Read More »
(With Hollywood elites like Whoopi Goldberg defending director Roman Polanski’s 1970s drug-rape of a 13-year-old girl, and with the media dismissing as insignificant David Letterman’s sexual exploitation of his female staff, here is a commentary about another entertainment-industry scandal.) “A lie will always serve you better than the truth,” said John Phillips, according to his daughter Mackenzie Phillips, a 1970s TV actress and notorious | Read More »
(In yesterday’s column, I wrongly reported the publisher of Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue. The publisher is HarperCollins. My apologies. Now today’s column, Did McCain Throw the 2008 Election?) “I want to thank the Obama administration” Republi-crat governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said recently for some federal money that Schwarzy says has helped the California economy. Several days later, 16-year-old black honor student Derrion Albert was | Read More »
You can always precisely gauge the state of American liberalism by the smile, grimace or pout on the face of Chris Matthews, host of Hardball, the political cable talk show on the Obama Broadcasting Company, also known as MSNBC. Hardball is a decent program, although Matthews is a patently annoying fusion of know-it-all and liberal demagogue. The show has good guests from both sides | Read More »
The rejection by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of Chicago as the host city for the 2016 summer Olympic Games is a huge blow to the prestige of president Obama, his wife Michelle and the city of Chicago. Even the magic of Oprah Winfrey, who went to Copenhagen as a representative of the city that made her a star, could be seen as diminished. | Read More »
There is a show called Tougher In Alaska on the always-excellent History Channel. Host Geo Beach takes you to workaday Alaska, visiting with and even working alongside power linesmen, truckers, railroaders, state troopers and others. In one episode, he visits during the winter with trooper Evarts in the remote town of Coldfoot and in one segment they travel more than 30 miles through the wilderness, | Read More »
“Money is the root of all evil. It says so in the Bible,” liberals often say, as if to somehow impugn the system of capitalism on Christian grounds. “Jesus had long hair,” the ‘hippies’ used to say in order to further legitimize their shaggy, unkempt appearance. What do these statements have in common? They both seek to piggyback on the legitimacy of | Read More »
Liberals say that energy prices will stabilize and decline when we start to use ‘green’ energy like wind power. Most people know this is false. In fact energy prices will skyrocket if we switch to wind power because wind power is only feasible when subsidized by the government. That is a really bad start. Environmentalists have told us for decades now that we need | Read More »
Former president Bill Clinton was asked by host David Gregory on Meet the Press September 27 if the “vast right-wing conspiracy” that Hillary once claimed was after her husband now is challenging president Obama. “Oh, you bet,” said Clinton. “It’s not as strong as it was because America has changed demographically, but it is as virulent as it was…” This is an interesting | Read More »
The discovery through satellite imagery of a new covert nuclear facility in Iran is reminiscent of the classic movie Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart. In the film, local officials reminiscent of the Keystone Cops discover that there is gambling going in the back room of Rick’s Café, and they are shocked, shocked, shocked… Yet everyone in town knew there was gambling at Rick’s and the | Read More »
Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health recently concluded that air pollution in cities is affecting fetuses and is leading to lower IQs in the developing child’s brain after birth. And thus since liberals live predominantly in urban areas, we now can understand why liberalism is closely associated with irrational behavior, skewed thinking and dementia. Does this not make sense? | Read More »
Here are some excerpts from president Obama’s September 23 address to the United Nations, with comments: Obama said: I come before you humbled by the responsibility that the American people have placed upon me, mindful of the enormous challenges of our moment in history, and determined to act boldly and collectively on behalf of justice and prosperity at home and abroad. Comment: While your | Read More »
Should America try to make new allies in the world? Of course. Should America alienate longtime friends in trying to make dubious new allies? Absolutely not. Yet that is what the Obama administration is doing. And it is a perilous course to follow. In its recent announcement – on the 70th anniversary to the day of the Soviet invasion of Poland | Read More »
Dictators love to talk. After all, most dictators are communists and that means that they are insecure people, like Castro in Cuba. Therefore, since they have captive audiences, they talk and talk and talk because they need to constantly reaffirm themselves in their own minds and do not know when to stop. Castro’s hours-long rants are notorious. President Obama is no dictator, but he | Read More »
Irving Kristol died September 18. He was an American journalist and columnist who is regarded as the ‘godfather of neoconservatism’. He was 89 years old. Kristol was the son of Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He grew up in Brooklyn (New York City) and received a BA from the City College of New York back when City College was a real educational institution, not | Read More »
I admit it – I lived in New York City for 13 years. I resided in Brooklyn and worked in Manhattan. It was fun. I got married, had a wonderful daughter, and things were going well. Then I lost my job, got divorced and then, in 1998, I departed the Hallowed City and returned to Berkshire County in Massachusetts where I was born and raised. | Read More »
The Obama administration and Democrats are playing the race card now that Obama’s popularity is tumbling, blaming his falling polls on “racism”. They thought that he would be an invincible president who would get whatever he wanted politically, but he is facing great resistance. Their backs against the wall, Democrats are now playing their same old angry game. Other incidents show that blacks are | Read More »
President Obama gave a speech in New York on September 14 to mark the one-year anniversary of the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers. The speech urged more regulation of the financial services industry. Yet the existing regulations were ignored for years, mostly by rich and powerful Democrats who control much of the financial system. In his speech, Obama said: “It was | Read More »
In its recent nationwide elections, Japanese politics shifted significantly. The Liberal Democratic Party – very much like our Democrats – was the ‘establishment’ party that had ruled practically uninterrupted since 1955 and was voted out by a large margin in late August. It was replaced not by a more conservative pro-growth party that might address Japan’s decades-long economic crisis, but by a farther-left institution | Read More »
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