They Don't Care!

By Alan Caruba | 10/18/09

It has finally dawned on me why President Obama and the Democrats in control of the Congress rushed to pass an unread “stimulus” bill “redistributing” billions of taxpayer dollars, have been voting bills out of committee to “reform” our national healthcare system, and another to impose a huge tax on all energy use. They don’t care. They don’t care that the polls clearly demonstrate... read more »

All the Gnus that Fits

By Alan Caruba | 10/16/09

My friend, the humorist Ron W. Marr has section on his website, Troutwrapper.com, titled “All the Gnus That Fits.” It is a send-up of journalism of the mainstream media. The section begins with a poem: I know not what the truth may be, I tell it as was told to me. So If it's not true, please don't call. I heard it was, and that is all. A lot of what passes for “news” is often this kind of reportorial... read more »

Watching Democrats Commit Political Suicide

By Alan Caruba | 10/15/09

I don’t venture much into political prognostication. I follow politics, but not so much to comment on the day-to-day madness of Washington, D.C., but because the legislation that does get passed often has long term penalties for Americans and for our economy. All that legislation that began so long ago that inserted the government into the mortgage loan and banking business ultimately resulted in the bubble that came close to... read more »

The "Deniers" are my Heroes

By Alan Caruba | 10/14/09

It has been nearly three decades since I first wrote that “global warming” was a hoax and I have had to repeat myself countless times since then. Along the way I met many of the so-called “deniers” and dissenters. I had correspondence with others. We all knew that Al Gore was lying. We all know that President Obama is lying, And yet the lies continue. The most amazing aspect of the hoax is that, despite a decade... read more »

Ruining Halloween for Everyone

By Alan Caruba | 10/13/09

When I was a kid, some seven decades ago, Halloween was one of the most enjoyable holidays other than Christmas. The sixth graders in my town, in cooperation with local merchants, would paint Halloween scenes on the windows of stores and, on the great night, kids of all ages would go forth with bags and baskets to make a circuit of homes on their street to collect a bounty of candy. Flash forward to present times and it is often the... read more »

Mr. President, Please Do NOTHING

By Alan Caruba | 10/12/09

I had a strange epiphany the other day. If I was to write a letter to President Obama, it would say, “Please do nothing.” It seems to me that Obama’s forte is to do nothing much of the time. Well, not “nothing.” He is giving speeches, but those incessant, self-referencing speeches do nothing to change the minds of America’s critics and enemies. They have rapidly reached a point where Americans find... read more »

Every Drop of Water in America

By Alan Caruba | 10/10/09

For sixty years I lived on a little street called Brookside Road. The name came from a real brook, a Depression-era project lined with smooth rocks that was serene and beautiful, bounded by trees on both sides. Some in the federal government want to exert control over that brook and over every drop of water in America. It is an attack on private property and it is emblematic of the real agenda of environmentalists. It is ... read more »

Nobel Prize Joke

By Alan Caruba | 10/10/09

  There was a time when the Nobel Peace Prize meant something. It went to men and women who earned their stature with lives of courage such as Andrei Sakharov who openly opposed the oppression of the former Soviet Union and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who gave his life for the cause of equality in which he believed. Giving the prize to Barack Hussein Obama has rendered it a joke. In office less than a year, Obama has, in the ... read more »

Defeating Ourselves in Afghanistan

By Alan Caruba | 10/07/09

It is a familiar question; why eight years after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, haven’t we found Osama bin Laden? And now the greater question before the President and the nation is why are we still in Afghanistan? You are not likely to hear an answer from either the White House or the Pentagon. You can, however, find part of the answer in a recently published book, Hunting al Qaeda, whose author chose to remain ... read more »

Assaults on the Second Amendment

By Alan Caruba | 10/06/09

While Americans are still wary of making big purchases such as a new home, they are investing heavily in guns and ammunition. The sales are off the charts and this may have something to do with why the Founding Fathers, after protecting free speech, free press, and the right to peacefully assemble to protest, made the right to keep and bear guns the Second Amendment. Right after 9/11 Americans similarly went out and bought guns and... read more »