My Super Bowl broadcast featured an outstanding sailor, skipper,  and  businessman who literally went from rags to riches without government subsidies and support. Indeed, to paraphrase from my bookpleasures.com review of his inspirational book, "One with the Sea," the only impediments to h… Read full post »

Outrage at Mitt Romney's statement about the state of his concern for the poor has received a lot of ink and air of late. It matters not. The poor are in the pocket of Papa Obama and nothing that any candidate can say will sway. I do, however, share the concern of… Read full post »

http://www.amazon.com/Wet-Firecrackers-Unauthorized-Autobiography-Gordon/dp/1451275854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327842990&sr=1-1 

 Like Bette Midler in "Ruthless People," I've been marked down--not on Wal-Mart, but on Amazon.

For a limited time, my tell-all unauthorized a… Read full post »

January 19, 2012

Someone at CNN apparently decided that tonight's Republican Presidential Debate could be solely handled by John King. Boy, was that a mistake!

Newt Gingrich brought an admittedly biased audience to its virtually unprecedented feet in its excoriation of King and his CNN bo… Read full post »

An actor once told me that a critic has no right to review a play or a film unless the critic has been involved in the rehearsal and other pre-production processes.

I considered the observation a high-water mark in dimness until yesterday, when I heard M. Obama's answer to a reporter's… Read full post »

Random Thoughts on the Eve of the Iowa Caucuses:

The so-called Santorum surge is a joke. If the square root of the scrutiny that has previously been leveled on Perry, Paul, Cain, Bachmann, and, most recently and most savagely, Gingrich were brought to bear on Santorum, he'd plunge like a stone… Read full post »

Obama: The Prince of PyrrhicVictories

Obama was obviously never taught as a child, his last opportunity for learning I fear, that "self praise stinks."

For a president, whose only positive effort and effect so far has been to save Jimmy Carter from being at the absolute bottom of the pres… Read full post »

Obama's 2011 Christmas Vacation

Hey, Mich, everything packed. Don't forget your bikini. The leis will be delivered on arrival.

Set to go, baby B.

Good.  Forget those nasty righties who noted that we don't always choose our vacation sites with the utmost sensitivity.

What do you mean, honey… Read full post »

The Promise of Paul

Like Ralph Nader before him, Ron Paul has attracted a small, but loyal band of adherents who would like to see him become President of the United States.

On one level, there is logic to support the Paul candidacy. Barack Obama has brought the United States to… Read full post »

Dear Santa

Sorry I can't sit on your lap anymore, but the PC police are on overdrive.

I've made a list, checked it twice, and here it is:

1. Please convince advocates of Paul, Bachmann, and Santorum to shift their loyalty to someone who can win. Tell the latter two that… Read full post »

Two-and-a-Half Men

With apologies to Charlie Sheen, who has probably never, ever received one prior to now, I was struck by the array of Romney, Gingrich, and Obama. Has anyone ever imagined a more apt visual representation of the show's title?

Rising above an impressive group of skilled… Read full post »

Michael Bloomberg—Public Enemy #1

The rancid irrationality of the Occupiers and their apologists has reached its apogee with the recent excoriation of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who after weeks of indulgence, finally decided that the normal residents of his city deserved a bit… Read full post »

As veterans are honored on OS and elsewhere by the grateful, as Georgette Mosbacher, a supremely successful capitalist, marches to persuade fellow capitalists to employ veterans, we have two counterpoints--Obama intoning on about whatever and mobs of snot-nosed malcontents kvetching about the fact th… Read full post »

The "A"s and "B"s of Ugliness

It's difficult to decide whether lawyer A or client B is uglier.

After years of leading a completely meretricious life, client B has decided to capture her 15 minutes of fame, and, of course, lawyer A is there at the ready to push her… Read full post »

Cain, No; Gingrich, Yes

The principal value of last night's discussion between Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich was the presentation of a study in superficial contrasts and basic unities.

The two couldn't be more different in terms of skin color, professional background, and rhetorical techn… Read full post »

OWS Scores a Victory!

What, one might ask, is it? Have the protesters changed a vote, or passed a bill? Have they blocked anything but traffic? Well, actually, no, but they have changed the dialogue.

According to the usual cadre of OS regulars, we are no longer dialoguing about the… Read full post »

Anarchy Anyone?

Are there protesters because there's a shortage of jobs, or is widespread unemployment due in part to so many preferring to protest? Shades of the chicken and egg, no? 

My money is on the chicken as many protesters, particularly those who have demonstrated the capaci… Read full post »

OWS—A Fetid Exercise in Futility

Public protests are a standard component of political life in the United States.  When the message is clear, wholesome, and civilly expressed, they can have a profound and positive effect on government.  The most recent evidence of this is, of co/… Read full post »

Obama's Plan B: Martyrdom

Now that 1) Obama's range-of-the-moment repeat attack on the economy shows that he is an ideologue unwilling to admit error, 2) Obama's international policies represent themselves as an uncomfortable straddle between protecting the homeland by following Bush policies a… Read full post »

Obama as Second-Rate Intellect

One of the arguments that Obama's supporters used early on to answer the obvious observation that Obama's résumè would barely qualify him for an entry level position in a significant commercial enterprise was that Obama was inherently bright. At the… Read full post »

Obama as Happy Warrior

As he staggeringly approaches the homestretch of the 2012 election, Obama may have stumbled upon the unlikeliest of issues to boost his standing in the presidential ranks: national defense.

The issues upon which Obama captured the presidency were betrayed early on.… Read full post »

Wanting to comment upon a scandal that may rival Watergate, I searched O and OS to verify the spelling of the company in question. Took a very long time. Posts about Solyndra are about as plentiful on O and OS as comments upon the recent epic defeats of Democrat congressmen in… Read full post »

Democrats and Jews

The resounding rejection of Obama and his surrogates by voters in congressional districts in New York and Nevada could be attributed solely to the clumsiness of our current president, who is demonstrably clueless on both domestic and international policies.

However, I t… Read full post »

I heard a story that some wizened, broken down Princeton economics professor had blogged something outrageous about 9/11 to stimulate (or is it "jolt" now?) interest in him and that the blog, reportedly poorly written even on a purely language level, had found its way into the New York Times.

Be… Read full post »

Obama's Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose

In today's Rose Garden Reader's Digest version of last Thursday's address to Congress, Obama mentioned that he and Biden had noticed a newspaper item on their way over to the floral event.  This confused me because his following remarks betrayed no knowledg/… Read full post »