Archive for November, 2009

Bob Franken

“What an incredible night this will be!”

Rush Limbaugh is beside himself. He’s the moderator of the first GOP presidential debate of 2012, carried exclusively on Fox News Channel. What a highly charged confrontation we can expect! Who would have known four years ago that the candidates would include Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Joe Wilson, Michelle Bachmann, Joe the Plumber, Michael Steele, what-his-name…oh yeah…Mitt Romney, the guy who looks like an anchor-man, and the front-runner, New Jersey Senator Lou Dobbs, who never did look like one.

'Well, that's all the time we have...'

They have already marched onto the stage. There was a brief scuffle as they each lurched to the far right, but things have settled down now. All of them are staking out the same extreme position. It’s not hard to understand. Ever since that upstate New York congressional loss, no Republican wants to be in the middle. Not the road, not the stage. Not anything. Read the rest of this entry »

Dan Calabrese

Why do people say, “I hate to say I told you so”?

People love to say that.  And I did tell you so where Mike Huckabee was concerned. Now that Maurice Clemmons, one of the many criminals whose sentences he commuted as Arkansas governor, has apparently gone on to murder four police officers in Washington State, Huckabee’s political career is finished.

Yep. Music. Great. Anything but politics.

He will never be president. He will never be elected to anything. He can keep hosting his show on Fox News – and he’d better – because it’s the closest to politics he’s ever going to come.

This is a good thing. Huckabee is a good man but not a person who knows how to responsibily handle the authority of public office.

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Pamela Troy

The Mohler case grinds on in Missouri. For those unfamiliar with it, six men in the Mohler family, Burrell Mohler Senior, and his five sons, have been accused of ritually abusing Burrell’s grandchildren back in the ‘80s.

You can find it online, conveniently typed-up.

The memories, we’ve been told, were initially “suppressed” by the 26-year-old woman who came forward with them. She claims that from the age of five to eleven, she was regularly and ritually molested by these men. She claims she was impregnated and forced to have an abortion at the age of eleven, and that the abuse stopped after this.

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Bob Maistros

WASHINGTON D.C. – Detailed reports are emerging about a publicity-and-power-seeking mystery couple from Chicago that managed to capitalize on a series of lapses in judgment and breakdowns in procedures to talk their way past various checkpoints and safeguards and into the White House. 

Nope, not them.

The couple was first admitted to the presidential mansion last January despite a near-total lack of credentials. Background checks have revealed that the pair launched their plot to gain access to the corridors of power beginning almost immediately upon his controversial selection to a high-profile government position five years ago, after a relatively brief tenure in a similar job at a lower level.  

The checks indicate little prior record of real accomplishment on his part and a work history that labels him as a loner, far out of step with his colleagues or the mainstream; she served in a public relations position, the visibility and remuneration of which appear to have been related to the high profile they managed to generate.  Read the rest of this entry »

Mark Watson

Third-term Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), recently introduced an interesting piece of legislation in the House of Representatives.

According to a Gohmert press release, HR 4127 would prevent Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other terrorists from being tried in a federal court in New York City.

Nice try, Louie.

The bill provides that “alien unprivileged enemy belligerents may only be tried by military commissions if tried for alleged conduct for which a term of incarceration or the death penalty may be sought.”

Gohmert’s bill would amend the Military Commissions Act of 2009 (MCA-09) to require that all foreign terrorists be tried in a military commission rather than a civilian court.

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Brett Noel

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Jamie Weinstein

Kind of like it is never too late to say you’re sorry, it is never too early to prognosticate on the 2012 presidential race.

Yes, the election is three years away and, yes, there are a whole set of congressional elections to deal with in 2010. But you know potential candidates are already thinking about the race. So why not us?

My fellow Americans . . .

Guess who is also thinking about the 2012 presidential elections? Las Vegas. Or at least Sportsbook.com, which is based who knows where. We’ll just say Vegas.

You can go online right now and bet on who will be the Republican nominee in 2012, and who will be the president come inauguration day in January 2013.

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Herman Cain

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” was an expression popularized by Mark Twain after hearing that his obituary had been published in the New York Journal circa 1897.

We still have it.

A daily overdose of bad news about our economy, military casualties and bad legislation being rushed through Congress by the Democrats would make it easy for someone to be ready to pronounce the death of the United States.

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Despite all of the attention devoted to negative stories about the recession, jobs, the wars and what the liberals are trying to do to this country, we are not dead yet.

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