President Bush has recently been making a lot of dumb statements, some are about his sacrifice of giving up the sport of golf to show solidarity with our troops who are fighting and dying overseas (see story), another unfortunate statement he made was in front of the Knesset in Israel comparing Obama’s pledge (not by [...]
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How often does one get to see something that has only happened 14 times in the last 100 years? Well if your a baseball fan yesterday was just such an opportunity in the second game of the Indians double-header with the Blue Jays (how often do you see double headers? this one was only due [...]
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In game six of the Wizards v. Cavaliers first round playoff game some Washington Wizards fan’s came equipped with ‘Crybaby 23′ t-shirts, directed at LeBron James who had been fouled hard throughout the series and who Wizards fans was soft. Cleveland and LeBron got the last laugh winning the third straight playoff series between the [...]
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This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country. (Describing the results of putting in a gas tax holiday – resulting in increased consumption) I just mentioned the [...]
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So there can be no doubt in anyones mind that the United States has moved into Iraq for a really long time – possibly forever – as the new US Embassy clearly shows. Nothing says permanent U.S. occupation of Iraq more than the construction of the largest embassy in the world, a $474-million compound with [...]
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I just heard about this on my drive home today (thankfully while on the subject of gas its only a 5 minute trip), anyway John McCain the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has proposed a summer gas tax holiday, meaning the 18% or so federal gas excise tax would be discontinued for the summer so as [...]
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One of the big plus factors behind McCain’s in the upcoming presidential election is his supposed expertise on foreign affairs and knowledge from top secret senate briefings over the years. Not trying to be ticky-tacky here but I must say I was a bit concerned when recently in a press conference Joe Lieberman corrects McCain’s [...]
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The Philharmonic accepted the North’s invitation to play last year with the encouragement of the U.S. government at a time of rare optimism in the long-running nuclear standoff involving the two countries. …Ahead of their arrival, North Korea was even tearing down the anti-American posters that line the streets of Pyongyang, Mehta said Sunday, citing [...]
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If you don’t know who Kelly Pavlik is your either not a boxing fan (highly likely in our era) or your not from Ohio where Pavlik has a cultlike following especially in his native Youngstown in Northeast Ohio where he is from and has remained. His surprising rise to boxing greatness is only slightly more [...]
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Roger Clemens is testifying about his steroid use (or supposed lack of), Arlen Specter wants an investigation into why the NFL allowed the Patriots to destroy evidence of their cheating (see Arlen’s tangled Comcastic mess: It’s worse than you think), and Sen. Sherrod Brown from Ohio wants the NFL to acknowledge the Browns undefeated 1948 [...]
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