Didja hear what Obama did? Didja?

    Is that Anthony Crispino I’ve been hearing tell us what horrific things President Obama has done? I think so.    Crispino — Bobby Moynihan’s “Saturday Night Live” “second-hand news” character — knows everything except for everything.    “Didja hear the IRS interrogated the tea party?” I hear Crispino say. “Yeah. It’s true.”     It doesn’t phase Anthony…

Coverup for you to probe, Senator

    Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., says the “coverup” surrounding the tragic incidents in Benghazi is “bigger than Watergate, bigger than Iran-Contra, bigger than the Pentagon Papers.”     It’s interesting that Inhofe doesn’t mention another matter that didn’t make his top four. It involved allegations of weapons of mass destruction, talking points planted in the…

Call it reproductive justice

   Harold Lloyd had nothing on today’s forces of regression.    In iconic black-and-white on a silent screen, the bumbling comic grappled with the big hand of a clock. The year was 1923.    Today, in Arkansas, North Dakota and wherever they can summon the votes, political forces seek to turn the hands of time…

Pot and redefining crime

  How about some good news today? This year, reports Time magazine, drug cartels in Mexico stand to lose $1.4 billion.   Why? Because Colorado and Washington decriminalized recreational marijuana in November.    American taxpayers have been financing a drug war with costs past comprehending, and without measurable gains. Now here come voters in two states…