Admitting the NSA is out of control is just the first step
Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 8, 2013 ― Members of Congress are expressing their concern and outrage over the latest revelations of widespread data gathering by the NSA. It is astonishing that they...
View ArticleMinecraft 1.5.2 Mini Game: One In The Thamber
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2013 – Qfence and MCairsoft14 take a look at One in the Chamber. In this Call of Duty based mini game we take on vicious and nasty players out for are blood. One in the Chamber...
View ArticleBoxing results: Big KOs by Maidana, Stevenson; wins for Lara, Gamboa
Related Columns SAN DIEGO, June 8, 2013 – If there was any doubt that the Home Depot Center in Carson, California has become the venue of boxing’s most exciting bouts today, Saturday’s thrillng main...
View ArticlePalace Malice beats Orb and Oxbow to take Belmont win
ELMONT, NY. June 8, 2013 — Palace Malice ran away with the Belmont Stakes prize today, beating out favorites Orb and Oxbow. The media repeated those two names all week, Orb thanks to his Derby win and...
View ArticleHow could Verizon have fought the NSA and won?
Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 8, 2013 ― The past week’s revelation that the National Security Administration was mining cell service provider Verizon’s data would have been an even bigger shock had...
View ArticleIs The Washington Redskins name Racist? You bectcha!
Related Columns WASHINGTON, June 8th, 2013 – I’m going to start with a simple question? Is it racist to name a sports team, a name, known to have strong racial overtones? I ask this because, recently...
View ArticleAmnesty giveaway – Government phone snooping? Naturally!
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, June 8, 2013 – We need a version of Monopoly based on the current immigration debate. Obviously the most prominent feature would be the “Get Everything Free” card....
View ArticleNorth Dakota has disappeared! And, Ed Markey, the fuzzy arithmetician
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, June 15, 2014 ― Last Thursday, Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu was speaking out against South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune’s proposal to build a...
View ArticleLandrieu succeeds N.D. to Canada; Hopeful Markey solves debt with math
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, June 16, 2014 ― Last Thursday, Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu was speaking out against South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune’s proposal to build a...
View ArticleNoDakanada: Senator Mary Landrieu gives North Dakota to Canada
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, June 16, 2014 ― Last Thursday, Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu was speaking out against South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune’s proposal to build a...
View ArticleRIP GOP: LGBT are OTT
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, June 29, 2013 ― It was a good week for soon-to-be-Americans and soon-to-be-wedded LGBTs. And we shouldn’t forget the oddly timed reversal of the anti-discrimination...
View ArticleIs America broken? How can we fix it?
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, June 22, 2013 ― To oversimplify the argument, there are two camps in America today. One thinks that everything is all right and we can overcome any obstacles. The...
View ArticleObama wages war on the light: We have met the enemy and he is ...coal?
MILLINOCKET, Maine, July 7, 2013 – Recently, President Obama’s climate adviser, Daniel P. Schrag told the New York Times, “The one thing the president really needs to do now is to begin the process of...
View ArticleSummer reading and a trip to the park - on the moon!
MILLINOCKET, Maine, July 14, 2013 – There have been a few fun stories so far this summer and it isn’t even August yet! Let’s start in Stockton, Calif., where a couple of ne’er do wells decided to...
View ArticleLet’s go to the movies! Or not.
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, July 21, 2013 – It’s been a dismal summer for moviemakers. Once tried-and-true “blockbusters” have become budget busters. There are many factors that come into play...
View ArticleWeiner wrecks, filthy Filner takes two weeks off
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, July 28, 2013 — Now that Anthony Weiner has lost his campaign manager and Bob Filner has announced he’ll take a two week “intensive counseling” vacation, what’s...
View ArticleWashington weasels premium subsidies, while we get regular Obamacare
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, August 4, 2013 — During the contentious debate around the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. “Obamacare,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, inserted a provision that requires...
View ArticleTransparency or obfuscation and bafflegab?
MILLINOCKET, Maine, August 11, 2013 — We seem to hear a lot about “transparency” in government these days, so why is there little transparency to be found? It sounds simple enough, just to say what...
View ArticleCongress weasels premium subsidies, while we get regular Obamacare
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, August 4, 2013 — During the contentious debate around the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. “Obamacare,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, inserted a provision that requires...
View ArticleHis magic flagging, Obama turns to Congress for help
MILLINOCKET, Maine, September 2, 2013 — To find success in politics, domestically and internationally, you need to be a good magician; distract with one hand while the other is making its moves. If...
View ArticleExceptional people are dangerous – to oppressive governments
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, September 16, 2013 – It was with some consternation that Americans who are old enough to remember what real freedom is, beheld a “lecture” from former KGB spy and...
View ArticleObamacare applicants are experiencing voter’s remorse
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, October 20, 2013 — Many people are discovering that being an Obama supporter does not guarantee lower health care costs. The few who are able to sign up for...
View ArticleRemembering 2013
MILLINOCKET, Maine, December 29, 2013 – From a political perspective, 2013 has not been a banner year. It started with falling off the fiscal cliff into the sequester and ends with the mangled and...
View ArticleOMG! A compromise in the House! HJ Resolution 59
MILLINOCKET, Maine, December 16, 2013 – The bipartisan House Joint Resolution Number 59 represents a groundbreaking accomplishment for the House. Too bad that it’s twenty pages of legalese, obscure...
View ArticleSenate vows to kill bill that would defund Obamacare
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, September 23, 2013 — This week, Harry “Gandalf” Reid will get to wield his staff and shout “You shall not pass!” at the Balrog, better known as the bill that would...
View ArticleHouse and Senate square off again
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, September 30, 2013 ― After Cruz’s filibuster, Reid’s bluster and senior GOP cluster, political theater is losing its luster. It’s actually more like a tired and...
View ArticleThe NSA isn’t our friend anymore
Related Columns CALIFORNIA June 8, 2013 — The recent exposure of NSA’s collection of massive amounts of cell phone metadata has rightfully called into question how far our privacy and Constitutional...
View ArticleUS Park Service to hire magicians to make monuments disappear
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, October 6, 2013 – Barricades, parking lot closures, even denying access to roadside overlooks hasn’t been working. People can still see many of the monuments around...
View ArticlePelosi and Biden to meet the Pope; what could go wrong?
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine - March 17, 2013 - There seems to be a lot of “you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up” going around these days. All the more proof that God really is a comedian. He’s given us...
View ArticleJoe Biden: "And then there's a snake in the bed" - 6 dumb things said
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, May 5, 2013 - A few quotes from the last week or so: 1. “I don’t think that the situation was technically a terrible scenario as far as his action, but the action...
View ArticleRecipe & Class: Persimmon, pomegranate & burrata salad
Los Angeles, Ca, January 16, 2013-The persimmon, what is it and how to use it. At first glance persimmons are beautiful and interesting, then the frustration of uncertainty sets in. Though prevalent in...
View ArticleRand Paul hits a nerve: Old Guard rallies behind Obama on drones
MILLINOCKET, Maine, March 9, 2013 — Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky fillibustered on the Senate floor for nearly thirteen hours last Wednesday, in an attempt to block or at least slow down the...
View ArticleCongressional malfeasance: The new normal
CALIFORNIA May 9, 2013 ― Sometimes it takes years to wake up and finally realize a fundamental change has occurred. Unfortunately, this is the case with the most powerful governmental institution in...
View ArticleDoes America have Alzheimer's?
MILLINOCKET, Maine, April 21, 2013 — It appears there are no lucid thoughts to be found on the American landscape. We might as well be living in a geriatrically induced fantasy world, where logic and...
View ArticleHoward Dean channels Alinsky: calls Benghazi inquiry ‘laughable joke’
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, May 25, 2013 ― It seems that Howard Dean is channeling Saul Alinsky these days. In calling the controversy over Benghazi a “laughable joke” he brings into play...
View ArticleSmart phones and dumb single women
LOS ANGELES, April 6, 2013—In the dating world, nothing limits people like self-sabotage. Technological advances have only made things worse. A recent party at a club revealed smart phone,...
View ArticleWelcome to Maryland: Taxing storm water managment
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, April 14, 2013 — Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley has imposed a “storm water management act” on his state. It is literally a tax on the citizens of Maryland for...
View ArticleDangerous clowns
MILLINOCKET, Maine, May 19, 2013 ― I’ve had it with the way this administration trivializes life-ending events. Obama’s bunch is either so totally stupid and/or incompetent that they all need be in an...
View ArticleBarney Fife Law enacted in Muckville - town to regulate bullets
MUCKVILLE, January 21, 2013 - The mayor and city council of Muckville have passed an ordinance that will limit Muckville’s citizens to one bullet. “You can have all the guns you want,” says Willie...
View ArticleObama's compliment to Kamala Harris: Sexist or not?
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, April 7, 2013 - It is now official; a man of high position can publicly compliment a woman of high position. SEE RELATED: North Korea plans to bomb Willie Nelson...
View ArticleLife, liberty, and the pursuit of stupidity - thanks, Mister Secretary
MILLINOCKET, Maine, March 3, 2013 - John Kerry in Berlin last week laid out his take on American freedom. To paraphrase him: “Hey, if it’s stupid, that’s OK with us! (interjects a Disney Goofy laugh)...
View Articlede Tocqueville's prophecy: Welcome to the United Entitlements America
MILLINOCKET, Maine, January 29, 2013 ― Now that we have voted ourselves into economic slavery, we can look “forward” to a lot more regulation, taxes and bureaucracy. By the end of this decade, the U.S....
View ArticleMarc Pocan: No lukewarm slingshot in Benghazi; Gov. Christie losing
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, May 12, 2013 ― Rep. Mark Pocan, Wisconsin Democrat, used the 5th rule of Alinsky’s power tactics (Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to...
View ArticleWhat sequester? Vicarious vacationing with the Obamas
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, June 2, 2013 — So where will you travel this summer? Due to the sequester and the economy, most Americans will probably not be vacationing at exotic locations, or...
View ArticleClowns in the news: Kerry, Obama and rodeo
Related Columns MILLINOCKET, Maine, August 18, 2013 – Who knew a rodeo clown could dominate a news cycle? He mocked the President, got fired and apologies were flying all around. Days later we are...
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