BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from the feeherytheory.com
Just about every Monday night over the last several years, I have tried to recapture my youth by playing basketball with a bunch of other guys who are similarly trying to recapture their youths.  It is fun way to exercise, as long as you don’t snap your Achilles or anything [...]

BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from weeklystandard.com
Last week House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio delivered a stinging critique of the Obama administration’s economic policies. But the White House’s swift and tart reaction to Boehner was both illuminating and sadly predictable.
On the day of the speech, White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer offered a “pre-buttal,” ripped from [...]

 
BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from Townhall.com
Neoconservatives, Reaganites and other militarily assertive factions in the United States are sometimes accused of thinking it is always 1938 (Britain’s appeasement of Hitler at Munich) — that there is always a Hitler-like aggressor being appeased and about to drag the world into conflict. There is sometimes merit in that charge.
As, [...]

BY GARY ANDRES
Reprinted from weeklystandard.com
Partisan polarization seems like it purchased a lifetime pass in this city.
This won’t sit well with Kumbaya aficionados — those looking for congressional Republicans and Democrats to walk arm-in-arm toward a bipartisan Promised Land.

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 [...]