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May 19, 2006
I could envision how our Commander In Chief, President George W. Bush, would issue the order to dispatch our National Guard troops to the border: “Gentlemen, sharpen your pencils!” Yes, we are sending 6,000 camouflage-attired clerks to patrol our border with Mexico. Beautiful! Who needs a wall?
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May 18, 2006
In the Civil War, the very crafty Confederate General, Robert E. Lee, was often the ultimate master at skillfully dividing his inferior number of troops, sending them off into separate directions, and achieving ingenious, if not, miraculous victories in battle, against all foreseeable odds. The Cong...
May 18, 2006
I did it again. I often read in bed at night before going to sleep to relax. Sometimes, I read something that draws my ire, and it has the opposite effect, so here I am at the keyboard. The May 14-20 issue of The National Catholic Register contains a symposium of articles by various clergy members a...
May 15, 2006
I recall in at least one of the movies of ?The Godfather? trilogy, on a couple of occasions, someone invoked the phrase, ?I have a pebble in my shoe? to illustrate that he had some sort of annoying problem. I have had a pebble in my shoe for a while now. Now is the right time to remove it. The artic...
April 27, 2006
The year was 2000 and Florida was rousin’, but I held my nose and voted for Bush. I thought I voted for a president, a leader, a man, instead all I got was a kisser of Mexican and Chinese tush. I didn’t repeat my mistake in 2004, I only thought things were bad then, but that was back when, before th...
April 14, 2006
As children, most of us have learned a hard lesson that when you touch a hot stove, you get burnt. Some adults have forgotten that lesson.
In our modern day 24/7 news cycle, what would previously be local news stories are now national headlines and catalysts for heated debate. The Duke Univer...
April 05, 2006
In the Second College Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary, the term “civil rights” is defined as, “Rights pertaining to a person by virtue of his status as a citizen or as a member of a civil society.” Good. That’s what I thought it meant. I just wanted to be sure that the cheese was still ...
April 04, 2006
I knew it. It didn’t take long. As soon as I aw all the TV coverage of all those little darlings who willfully abandoned their classrooms in Los Angeles, many of whom were waving Mexican flags in protest to illegal immigration reform, my gut told me that it was just a matter of time before the left ...
March 29, 2006
There is a disconnect between America’s heartland and the Beltway. According to some polls I have heard, about 70% of Americans want more done to stop illegal immigration. The voices of these majority patriots have been loud, but not loud enough.
A virtual firestorm, spurring protests in seve...
February 23, 2006
“I’m a uniter, not a divider.” “I believe in compassionate conservatism.” Yeah, yeah, yeah. Empty campaign tripe. Now, as President Bush is no longer Candidate Bush, and is entering the second year of his second term, like most politicians, his true colors are becoming exposed. Contrary to the bill ...
February 22, 2006
I?m not Alice, and this isn?t Wonderland, but things just keep getting ?curiouser and curiouser.? Likewise, President Bush isn?t Lucille Ball, and I am also not Desi Arnaz, but I would still tell the President, in Desi?s words, that he has ?a lot of ?splainin? to do!?
The US ports of New York...
February 13, 2006
On a recent segment of his radio program, Bill O’Reilly discussed a program in California, I believe specifically in the San Francisco area if I recall correctly, in which the courts are now offering the expunging of criminal records to offenders, violent, as well as non-violent, after serving their...
January 29, 2006
It is irrefutable that the US has a President. It is questionable, however, if we have a leader. President Bush seems to have disregard, if not contempt for the Constitution, his oath to that document, and the people under the umbrella of protection for which it is supposed to provide. The former Te...
January 29, 2006
Never one to shield my candle under a bushel, sometimes I sit at this keyboard to write a column, and I just know that I may catch hell from someone out there who didn’t like what I said, or didn’t like what they thought I said. I just feel, deep in my bones, that this is one of those occasions.
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January 23, 2006
While many people up here in the frigid northeast bellyache and moan, one positive note about the winter for me is convenience and a small saving of money. I get fewer haircuts in the winter. In summer, I get monthly crew cuts, and maybe even a complete head shave, sporting that “Kojak” look, minus ...
January 20, 2006
In the early years of the Civil War, an exasperated President Lincoln sarcastically asked his overly cautious General McClellan, “If you aren’t going to use the Army, may I borrow it for a while?” In a report released this week from our alleged “Homeland Security” Agency, Mexican Army troops have cr...
January 17, 2006
It’s Iran’s turn. Maybe to varying degrees, we are all guilty of forgetting about our old adversary, Iran, a component of what President Bush correctly called “The axis of evil.” The other two, of course, were Iraq and North Korea. As our mission is winding down in Iraq, we have also noticed that No...
January 15, 2006
During Supreme Court Justice nominee Samuel Alito’s confirmation hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Committee, the usual suspects were on the usual sides. The Democrats sought to attack Judge Alito’s character from several fronts, both real and imagined, and attempted to paint him with ghastly a...
December 13, 2005
Chrysler is now German-owned. General Motors is cutting 30,000 jobs, closing 12 plants, and its truck and SUV division is in the tank. Ford isn't too far behind, and stocks for these once auto industry titans are now of junk bond status. Not that long ago, an American made automobile was as much a ...
December 05, 2005
The Los Angeles Times recently broke a story that the Pentagon has supposedly been paying a Washington D.C.-based public relations firm called The Lincoln Group to specifically promote only the positive aspects of the US involvement in Iraq in Iraqi news reports. Given the bias of the alleged “mains...