I’m not one of those conservatives who feels inclined to blame Mitt Romney for President Obama’s re-election victory. Sure, he wasn’t my first pick to represent the Republican Party, and there were times when I found myself annoyed with the decisions made by his campaign, but I think he was a strong and competent leader…
I’ve been a bit hard on Warren Buffett in some of my past columns. It’s not that I don’t respect the man. The amount of his wealth that he’s committed to charities is alone worthy of endless praise. There’s just something downright frustrating about having one of the country’s greatest business minds at our president’s…
Back in December 2010 I published a column in this space entitled, “Thank God for Rich People.” It touched off a brouhaha – without the ha ha, attracting more than 300 comments. When we talked about the column on the O’Reilly Factor it touched off another firestorm. This seems like a good time to run…
In a column I wrote several months ago, I mentioned how I watched a lot of professional wrestling as a child. One of my favorite wrestlers back then was Rowdy Roddy Piper, the crafty and sharp-tongued arch-nemesis of fan favorite, Hulk Hogan. Piper was kind of the J.R. Ewing of Saturday mornings – the villain…
So the man who once promised he would bring us together has now kicked off his campaign for re-election determined to tear us apart. Irony doesn’t begin to tell the story. Barack Obama went to conservative Kansas “laying out a populist argument for his re-lection next year,” as the page one story in the New…
Many of the videos coming from Occupy [your town here] do viewers the comedic favor of showing feckless tag-alongs who have no real idea why they’re doing what they’re doing. Generally you’re seeing a ragtag collection of young, unserious hangers-on who are wandering aimlessly, using and wearing products made by the same corporations they’re supposed…