A FIRST POWER NATION…WITH A THIRD WORLD GOVERNMENT (…and how to become a banana republic without really trying) The President, the Democrats, the Republicans, keep on keeping on with their political end-games with each other while we, the people, get
CONGRESS…HAS BECOME A COLLECTIVE OF SELF-SERVING FAILURES (…proving that –democracy- lets us vote mostly dumb…rather than smart) There they go again! One would think that after a previous episode 18 years ago, when another bout of political gridlock brought the
YES…THERE ARE NO GHOST-RIDERS IN CALIFORNIA SKIES (…because…they’re all busy being ghost-voters in the State Assembly…) California has always been one of the quirkier states in the country, and, few others can rival some of its weird and whacky customs
IF NERO WAS FIDDLING…WHILE ROME BURNED… (then Congress’s diddling…is what’s keeping our economy comatose) Fed Chairman Bernanke was being polite as he explained why it was maintaining the current level of bond buying rather than easing off as had been
ANOTHER CASE OF THOSE DISORDERED MINDS AMONG US (…and the difficulties involved with preventing their sudden onsets of killing rampages) The recent event at the Navy Yard, in Washington, D.C. is another case of those disordered mind among us…and the
VALIDATING ILLEGAL PRESENCE IN THIS COUNTRY (…by nullifying Federal laws against it…) The State of California is the latest one to pass legislation authorizing “undocumented” or people illegally present in this country to obtain state drivers licenses. Effectively this legislation
MISS AMERICA (…a ravishing – unum- from a –puribus- of lovelies…) Like many other beauty pageants the Miss America Pageant has been around for a long time, and, for most of that time, mainly as a display of pale-vanilla female
A PHOENIX RISEN FROM THE ASHES (…of terrorism’s greatest day of infamy) Yesterday was the 12th commemoration of the Nine Eleven attack against our country. A traumatic event against our national psyche from which we still suffer a collective case
WONDERING IT IT’S A CASE OF A JOKER GONE WILD.. (…or just a sly old brain using the latest tech-toy to keep itself sharp) Senate “debates” about almost anything can drone on and on, conducted mostly as round-robin opportunities for
IT SEEMS WE’VE HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE… (…but not with such lyrics of hypocritical moral outrage…) The Assad regime’s apparent use of chemical weapons against some of its own people, in a suburb of Damascus, has caused an international uproar