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The column every columnist writes once
It can be hard writing this column. The hard part isn't so much the actual writing, but the act of deciding what to actually write about. I used to spend maybe 20, 30 minutes top writing this column during last summer, but back then, I had a week to ponder...
Clinging to guns, God and whiskey, but mostly pollsters
Here in the City of Brotherly love, there are clearly a lot of brothers but not much love between squabbling candidates Hillary "get your gun" Clinton and the media heartthrob Barack Obama.It is now all about Guns, God and Whiskey, which incidentally,...
Dinner anyone? Pigeons in the parking lot
I am so relieved that Governor Crist recently signed a bill into Florida Law allowing citizens to bring guns with them to work, so long as they remain locked away in a car. Finally, our state legislature has recognized the trials and tribulations that...
Unintended consequences: separating one evil for another?
Maybe it's just my imagination but I've been noticing a lot of corn lately. Time Magazine even had a cob of the yellow kernels wrapped in a dollar bill on its cover a few weeks back. Evidence of corn continues past the newsstands where yellow ethanol...
Watch as McCain talks out of both sides of his mouth
Republican presidential nominee John McCain's "Service to America" speech in Annapolis was a schizophrenic's joyride. McCain slid from describing his screw-up college years into an appreciation that life is supreme with irony, and then a Kennedy-esque...
Spring break - life is a beach
SAN ANTONIO - It is the time of the year when a young college man's thoughts turn to romance; and if that does not pan out, he takes a lead from Eliot Spitzer and turns to the Yellow Pages. We are in the throes of an annual bacchanalian rite in the United...
Hillary's sniper story draws enemy fire
In the heat of the current Democratic nomination fight, Hillary Clinton tried to brandish her tough woman world leader cred when her "misremembrance" became the topic of the week. For those who do not have a Ph.D. in political science, a "misremembrance"...
Fishes swim, birds fly, why Republican Party has to lose 2008 election
The Republicans were not supposed to have it this easy. The party is the immediate heir to President George W. Bush's unpopularity, and are immediately associated with the Iraq War, a rather unpopular war, as well as associated with one of the worst economic...
More thoughts on the Eliot Mess: The audacity of a dope
“Pride goeth before destruction and haughty spirit before a fall.” --Proverbs 16:18Now that we know more about Ashley Dupre, the hooker who Eliot Spitzer fancied, and her 15 minutes of fame is thankfully about over, we need to discuss what...
Young Wisdom: April 5
I'm a car nut. And as a certified car nut, I am required by the collective society of car nuts, which includes teenage boys and balding men in their 50s, to every once in a while look up prices of highly expensive sports cars in European markets. As...
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