WASHINGTON – The candidates jockeying for prominence in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District race are no different from any other Republican or Democrat in America now arguing over the best way to fix the country’s “broken borders” — except one. They are vying to represent a district that is contending with …
Read More »BASE Jumping: Not Suicide, But Sure Looks Like It
If everyone else jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you? Several recent incidents, including the April 27 arrest of Jeb Ray Corliss IV, who was caught by police as he prepared to skydive off the Empire State Building’s observation deck during rush hour, have called attention to BASE jumping, a …
Read More »What Sen. Ted Kennedy Calls Proposed Marriage Amendment
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Right-Wing Strategy Amendment? Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy says the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage is “bigotry, pure and simple.” In a Boston Herald op-ed, Kennedy writes that a vote for the amendment “is a vote against civil unions, against domestic partnerships, …
Read More »Paying a Housecall to Sen. Frist
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Read More »Leave It at Home
I’ll never forget some years back being at a function with a husband and wife who were bickering. Actually, they were fighting. It was really nasty, really loud and really unsettling. Everyone in the room felt uncomfortable. I just wish they had left it at home. Actually, I wished they …
Read More »'Law & Order' in Trouble as Actress Quits
‘Law & Order’ | Odds ‘n’ Ends ‘Law & Order’ in Trouble as Actress Quits Things are pretty dicey over at “Law & Order,” NBC’s 16-year-old police series. For one thing, the actress who plays the assistant district attorney just quit. For another, insiders from the show are “convinced” that …
Read More »Politics, the Public Schools and Your Kids
Politics, the public schools and your kids. That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” As you may know, I’m writing a book called “Culture Warrior,” which will be out next September. In my research, I have learned quite a lot about the far left, which is currently …
Read More »Grrr! Tom Cruise Name-Dropping
Tom Cruise has nothing to do with this column. Except that Tom Cruise is in boldface. And despite the recent “controversy” about the “South Park” episode “Trapped in the Closet” and the resulting war between the show’s creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Scientology or Cruise’s lawyers, this column …
Read More »The Essence of Grrr!
In case you are new to this column, or simply would like a refresher on what it is that is constantly getting my goat, I’ve put together a few items that make up the very essence of the Grrr! Over the years, the Grrr! column has observed how the “me, …
Read More »Unusual Special Election In Texas Breeds Speculation
WASHINGTON – To Democrats, a recent federal court ruling that forced the redrawing of several congressional districts in Texas was the final retribution against Republicans, who three years ago had engineered the state’s political map to guarantee their dominance in Washington. For Rep. Henry Bonilla, R-TX., one of the handful …
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