It’s hard to pick which piece of White House re-election propaganda most insults our intelligence – there’s so much to choose from!There’s President Bush’s “compassion” hoax – that is, pretending to care about those in need yet looking the other way while (say) a record 44 million Americans go without health coverage. There’s the deficit […]

Sometimes political irony is so stupendous that it takes your breath away.The current machinations of the Maine legislative leadership are in this category. While professing to want to defeat the 1 percent tax cap proposal of Carol Palesky, they are actually pushing for a June vote on the issue, a move that will virtually assure […]

Not to trivialize a serious matter, but the hearings of the Sept. 11 commission have begun to remind me of one of Smokey Robinson’s less famous hits. It’s called “Who’s Gonna Take the Blame.”Over the last month, the men and women in the hot seat have spent as much time pointing fingers at one another […]

The Sept. 11 commission has revealed another zealot who supports the dreaded USA Patriot Act, insisting that “everything that’s been done in the Patriot Act has been helpful.” Not a few things. Not even most things. “Everything.” Who is this thoughtless pawn of John Ashcroft? None other than former Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno.Not generally […]

By deciding to give up areas populated by Jews in Gaza (known as “settlements” by those who regard it as “occupied territory”) and effectively annexing disputed territory in Judea and Samaria (known as the West Bank by those who also consider this area “occupied”), Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has decided to risk his country’s […]

I’m sorry, but I still want my pound of flesh.Granted, apologies have been given and promises made. Still, the transgression was so profound, so antithetical to the letter and spirit of the Constitution, that it’s hard to let it go at that.For those who missed it: Recently, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went to Hattiesburg, […]

It is the cloud that hangs over every American president who sends a substantial military force abroad – fear of another Vietnam.But over the last three decades, critics’ warnings of a repetition of that disastrous venture proved largely unfounded, because U.S. undertakings were sufficiently brief in Lebanon and Kuwait and relatively casualty-free in Bosnia.Now, Democratic […]

Fallujah is another Tet. And that’s exactly why our cause is just.It turns out that there is no cure for the Vietnam Syndrome. Liberal baby boomers contracted it sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s and have been infected ever since. Now they command the heights of the American media and political establishment, and […]

It’s tax time, which means it’s time for conservatives to roll out their perennial complaint that the well-to-do are being asked to pay too much. They’re dead wrong, as every reasonable citizen will conclude in a moment, but first let’s hear them out.“You’re getting to the point where there are more people on this side […]

I’m not sure Rush Limbaugh is, as the title of the best-selling book would have it, “a big, fat idiot.” The man has, after all, lost a considerable amount of weight in recent years.But he is a major reason I’d rather hammer a spike through my ears than subject them to talk radio. Not because […]