Why Can’t You Selfish Ingrates Feel the First Couple’s Pain?

Honestly, I haven’t heard such caterwauling and bellyaching in this country since Jimmy Carter was president. All I’ve heard this whole summer has been a rising cacophony of complaint. In every posh place I’ve been, whether church or Wal-Mart or Home Depot or the bagel shop, whether my primary polling place or regular citizens confab, [...]

General Jones’ Apology Not Nearly Good Enough

Now that General Jim Jones, the current national security adviser to the president of the United States, has apologized (sort of) for his blatantly anti-Semitic joke, told to an audience including many Jews, the matter is supposed to be closed. End of discussion.
Hold on just a gosh-darned minute.
Read the joke here, dear readers, so [...]

These are the smart people? Oh, please.

If there is a single thing that Barack Obama has proved to the American people - beyond any reasonable doubt - it is that he is not smart. And neither are those so-called brilliant folks surrounding him, aiding him, advising him, and egging him on against the will of the people.
Barack Obama is charismatic. [...]

Why G. W. Bush Reminds Me of Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
Abraham Lincoln
Individual, human perspective is [...]

Barach’s Helpful Hints for Sarah

Dear readers, I do so love a perfectly satirical situation, the kind that simply begs my muse to indulge a bit of mirth and dagger-sharp wit.
Since Barack has been on the campaign trail a bit longer than Sarah, he just might have a few pointers he’d like to share with her, helpful hints [...]