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…
DetailsSen. 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…
DetailsFrom reports, the entrance was what one imagines of a drug lord who isn’t used to waiting for a table in Guadalajara. Only this was in Washington. Stepping out of the elevator, a wedge of body guards shoved people out of the way, one pinning a cameraman against the wall. “You don’t…
DetailsHarold 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…
DetailsIt’s easy to deride Sen. Ted Cruz’s double standard. In fact, he is only observing a tradition of great duration. Former Sen. Phil Gramm was truly a mythical bird, decrying federal spending at every stop, then racing at the speed of an arclight to the nearest microphone to take credit for any…
DetailsThey say everything’s bigger in Texas. But most things that make it big are small. West, Texas, for instance. The name confuses. Named after a banker and sodbuster, West is in Central Texas, 25 miles north of Waco, where I spent a long time as a newsman. As everyone knows…
DetailsHow 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…
Details“Many people like to get larger capacity magazines simply to save time reloading while they’re at the range. “When you’re paying by the hour for range time, a lot of people do feel the need to stock up as much as possible.” America wouldn’t want to infringe on anyone’s range time. That costs…
DetailsIt never ceases to amaze — the breathtaking lack of proportionality some people have when they have it out for President Obama. Hear the screams about what it costs to protect him on a golf outing or Malia and Sasha when going anywhere. Too much. You’ve got that right. But my reading of history…
DetailsAnyone who experienced the ’60s will know this: that there actually were two ’60s. The first is routinely illustrated in film — flower power, long hair, Age of Aquarius, protests, all that. The second Sixties — what most of us experienced — wasn’t any of that. Protest was as foreign as…
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