The Obama Commercial

By Alan Caruba | 10/30/08

The Wednesday evening half-hour, $4 million dollar television commercial for the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama was a masterpiece of imagery.   It was also entirely devoted to class warfare, class envy, and most of all to fear.   This has been the Democrat message since Franklin D. Roosevelt took over the White House in the midst of the Great Depression--the real one, not the Recession the economy has encountered today. We don't have... read more »

Forgetting 9/11's Legacy of Fear

By Alan Caruba | 10/28/08

As the election nears, it occurred to me that we have forgotten the fear that we felt on 9/11, the shorthand for the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. It has been replaced by a new set of widespread fears that are communicated to me every day either personally or via the Internet.I am talking about fears of a government under the aegis of a President Obama that abandons the U.S. Constitution and imposes its... read more »

A Year After Obama is Elected

By Alan Caruba | 10/27/08

For all the joking about Sen. Barack Obama thinking of himself as "the Messiah" or even, as Minister Farrakhan of the Black Muslim movement declared, being the Messiah, the fact of the matter is that he is just a man.   Granted, he may be one of the most politically ambitious men to have attained high office, but a year after he has been elected President--and I suspect that will be the outcome of the election--people will be asking why he... read more »

San Francisco: The Epicenter of Stupid Ideas

By Alan Caruba | 10/26/08

In the 1980s I found myself traveling all over the United States in the employ of a corporation's quarterly newsletter. I visited many cities and places, discovering the unfailing courtesy and good will of Americans everywhere I went. One of my favorite places was San Francisco. It is picturesque, sits beside a bay spanned by a marvel of engineering, and has great restaurants, hotels, and other attributes. San Francisco is now the epicenter of... read more »

Everything is in Free Fall

By Alan Caruba | 10/24/08

By Alan Caruba   It increasingly seems that not only is the economy in free fall, but so too have been the nation's cultural values. I do not know if there is a link, but I would not be surprised if there was.   When it was announced that some pornographer was making a film, "Nailin' Pailin", featuring a Gov. Sarah Palin look-a-like, it struck me that this was some kind of nadir in the way our society has permitted commonly held values... read more »

Green Drivel, Green Deceit

By Alan Caruba | 10/23/08

We are all so besieged by the drivel that Greens put out daily that it is easy to forget how idiotic it is and, in many cases, how deceitful it is.I recently received an emailed news release with the following headline: "If you don't know what to buy for the holidays, the Better World Shopping Guide will help you decide." The Guide is described as "a must-have guide for the socially and environmentally responsible consumer or those who want to... read more »

Ruining America

By Alan Caruba | 10/22/08

Ruining America By Alan Caruba   George Washington warned against "factions" by which he meant political parties, but even in the earliest days of the new republic, the most natural of human inclinations was to band together with like-minded people to elect one's preferred candidate to office.   Indeed, in the early years of the nation, elections were the occasion for candidate vilification of a sort that would appall the modern voter.... read more »

The Attention Span of Fungus

By Alan Caruba | 10/21/08

By Alan Caruba   We call it "news" because, presumably, the news media is providing us with some "new" information about events in the world. If editors and reporters could not come up with something new to write about, your daily newspaper or television news program or channel would cease to exist.   The problem is that most news is the same news. Only the names change.   There is, of course, the constant issue of bias in the... read more »

Let's Go Nuclear

By Alan Caruba | 10/19/08

How do you know when a Green--hardcore environmentalist--is lying to you? When his lips are moving. Okay, it's a cliché used in other cases as well, but it is especially true when the latest absurd claim comes flying at you courtesy of the mainstream media. Take nuclear energy as an example. A new survey by Bisconti Research, taken since one conducted in April, revealed "a record-high 74% of Americans favor nuclear energy, with only 24%... read more »

The IRS Will be Hiring

By Alan Caruba | 10/16/08

If Barack Obama is elected, the Internal Revenue Service had better double its workforce because the amount of cheating on tax returns will rival Italy's.The scariest thing about the final debate between the candidates is that both appear to be utterly oblivious to the way the Stock Market dropped 700 points on Wednesday after a brief rally the day before.Hearing either candidate talk about spending billions to fix this or that was surreal. I... read more »