Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Jay Leno, David Letterman and just about each and every comedian/pundit are in mourning this week. Herman Cain, the larger than life non-political, businessman candidate seeking the Republican nod for nomination to the presidency of the United States announced the “suspension” of his campaign.
Last week, in these pages, my erstwhile friend and fellow columnist, Tom Burgum, decried the existence of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, labeling it a chaotic conglomeration of “anarchists, communists, disillusioned students, the unemployed and the unemployable.”
In a classic film released several decades ago, actor Jack Nicholson delivered a powerful rendition of what can happen to normal administration operating under the best of intentions when the lunatics succeed in taking over the asylum
Republican candidate for president Herman Cain rocked the political establishment to its knees recently when a Florida straw poll designated him the winner over the two frontrunners, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Michigan Gov. Mitt Romney. Not only did Cain do the unexpected, but he did it handily, polling more votes than both his two opponents combined
Monday last was a bad, sad day for the town of Longboat Key. After 15 years of exemplary service, Bruce St. Denis, the affable hard-working town manager, was forced to resign by the conspiratorial antics of five members of the seven-member Town Commission
The wild roller coaster rides on Wall Street during the last several weeks were without precedent in American history. Not even the disastrous stock market crash of 1929, which signaled the onset of the Great Depression, provides a parallel to what is roiling the markets today
To paraphrase an old saying: With friends like these, who needs these SOBs? Pakistan has long been the spoiled brat-upstart, paranoid, irritating bully of its Central Asia neighborhood, creating border incursions with its larger neighbor, India, and fighting skirmishes over the disputed boundaries of Kashmir.
Grandma always said that the beauty of America was that any citizen born here could be elected president. Grandma was right, of course, but what that constitutional provision failed to say was that it was no guarantor of quality or competence
An MSNBC commentator by the name of Ed Schultz made waves and got himself into serious trouble with the network several weeks ago by calling conservative radio host Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut.” The charge echoed
Some doors close, and other doors open. The trial balloons launched for Messrs. Trump, Huckabee and Daniels having been self-punctured, with the Gingrich balloon slowly leaking hot air and the Paul candidacy sinking with the age of its candidate, two new names have been floated for Republican consideration
