BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from the Feeherytheory.com
The good news coming in over the weekend is that Glenn Beck announced that he wasn’t running for President.  The bad news is that he seems to think of himself as some sort of a religious prophet, and a lot of people seem to agree with him.
Beck proved that he [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
Election-Year Distractions
            Have you noticed where the focus of the traditional media is just nine weeks ahead of the mid-term elections?  While there seem to be only two driving concerns in this election – the economic condition of the country and the role of government in fixing it – the media is [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
Reprinted from washingtonexaminer.com
Carlos Martinelly Montano is an illegal immigrant from Bolivia. On August 1, he was allegedly driving drunk on a Prince William County, Virginia, road and slammed into another car, killing Sister Denise Mosier and injuring two other Catholic nuns.
There’s nothing that makes you think more soberly and seriously about the [...]

BY TONY BLANKELY
Reprinted from Townhall.com
With apologies to George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and their 1935 classic song, “Summertime” (and the living is easy):  

Summertime,
And the living is queasy
Taxes jumpin’
And foreclosures are high

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
I’m a little uncomfortable about this because my instinct – my strong instinct – is to stay far, far away from religious issues.
But, this business about the proposal to build Mosque in lower Manhattan has become big enough so that the Washington Post made it a front page story in its [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
I just heard for the first time the government-sponsored  commercial for Medicare starring Andy Griffith.  Remember him? Mayberry Sheriff Andy Taylor?
In the ad, Ole Andy harkens back 1965, when, he says, a lot of good things happened – like Medicare.   That’s not how I remember 1965, but I digress. 
Andy’s sitting in an [...]

BY GARY ANDRES
 Reprinted from weeklystandard.com
The View’s hostesses probably won’t invite Senator John Thune on the show to discuss his new budget proposal. Ideas this thoughtful rarely attract pop culture media attention.
Despite the glitterati’s lack of interest, the South Dakota senator’s new plan to restore fiscal discipline should become a cause for decision-makers and regular Americans [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
            I don’t know who is advising Rep. Charlie Rangel in his defense against ethics charges, but my guess is that he or she or they got a hold of a book on political campaigns by political scholars Jim Thurber and Candy Nelson of American University.  
            There’s a chapter in the [...]

BY GARY ANDRES
 Reprinted from Weeklystandard.com
It sounded very easy in theory. With the biggest tax increase in history set to go into effect on January 1, 2011, Democrats were poised to win the middle class rock heroes award.
The song had all the subtlety of a Pete Townshend guitar riff. Pass a bill before the end of [...]

BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from Townhall.com
“Wiki” is a cute Hawaiian word for “quick” — borrowed by Ward Cunningham, creator of the first Internet wiki — from the name of a fast little inter-terminal shuttle at Honolulu International Airport.
But cute and innocent as the word may sound, when attached to damaging wartime leaks by WikiLeaks operator Julian [...]