It is time to pull the curtain aside and find out who the wizard really is. Barack's minions have bruited his god-like persona for the past year, and now that he is “large and in charge” it's time to perform.
It's been three months plus for the Obama administration, and the usual disappointment is setting in. A new president, especially one following an administration led by an intellectually challenged lemur, is a source of optimism for all of us. Unfortunately, the three-month report card is not going to go into a mother-of-pearl frame beside his peewee basketball trophy.
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A few weeks ago Obama held a press conference in the style of a town-hall meeting. One of the highlights was taking questions from the Internet. The single-most-asked question was, “Do you plan to legalize marijuana?” to which BHO replied, “What's up with these Internet people?” Does he mean the Internet people who got him elected?...
Our new president and savior smokes. This is not good. I can picture him slipping one of his secret service agents a fin so he won't tell Michelle that he is copping a cigarette in the Rose Garden. Even then he may be taking a big chance. Would you...
You know how Anthony felt about Cleopatra? How PETA feels about fuzzy bunnies? Or Don Quixote felt about Dulcinea? That's how Ruth, my spouse and jewel of loveliness, feels about her tomatoes. She even has nicknames for them. She refers to them as her “maties.” I know this sounds...
I have to plead guilty to being a “Sylvaniaphile.” When some self-righteous polling entity says that the average American watches about three hours of TV a day, I figure I'm about average. My old man bought our first TV in the early '50s. It was a 12-inch, black-and-white Sylvania floor model and cost $400. I've been watching the glowing eyeball of popular culture for lo these last 50 years. There is no more informative method of getting a feel for...