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  • BLAME BO, NOT BP

    06/10/2010 5:48:50 AM PDT · by shortstop · 23 replies · 129+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 06/10/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    The economic ruin of the Gulf Coast isn't coming from the oil well. It's coming from the Oval Office. It's not BP, it's Obama. Don't get me wrong. The ruptured oil well, and the incomprehensible amounts of crude flooding into the ocean, are horrific. This is a potential catastrophe, and the sight of fouled wetlands and helpless oil-covered birds is heartbreaking. And it is a British Petroleum well that is doing that. But right here and now, today, that's not what's putting the people of the Gulf Coast out of work. It's government dictate. Decisions made in Washington and imposed...
  • HELEN THOMAS, AMERICAN LIBERAL

    06/08/2010 5:46:01 AM PDT · by shortstop · 62 replies · 65+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 06/08/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    I know a Jew from Poland. More correctly, I know his son. I’ve spoken to the father, been introduced and exchanged pleasantries, but it’s mostly the son I know. A guy about my age with curly hair and a black beard and tendency to smile. He’s a fishmonger. Like his father before him and, now, his son after him. I went to the shop first out of curiosity, to see where the shooting had been. The father, a man in his 80s, was working alone on a Thursday just after opening time when two neighborhood punks came in. They shot...
  • WELFARE IS A CANCER

    05/26/2010 5:14:44 AM PDT · by shortstop · 30 replies · 700+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 05/26/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    Cancer starts benign enough. A tiny mass of misbegotten cells, duplicating and growing, slowly demanding more of its host until it explodes in a dramatic grab for resources and dominance. Then the balance shifts and there is more death than life, more weak than strong, more tearing down than building up.And that's when cancer kills. It's the same way with welfare and the taxpayers it feeds on. It starts benign enough, as a feel-good program, for one disadvantaged group or another, a sob story turned into a budget line. But it grows from there, and an entitlement is born. A...
  • OIL SLICK IS NOBODY'S FAULT

    05/25/2010 5:14:59 AM PDT · by shortstop · 52 replies · 1,003+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 05/25/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    It’s not Obama’s fault. It’s not British Petroleum’s fault. It was just an accident. And everyone is doing everything they can to stop the leak and clean up the mess. That’s the truth, and fair-minded people ought to be willing to acknowledge it. But few are. Instead, the explosion of an oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico is being seen through exclusively political eyes as factions jockey to play the mishap to their political and philosophical advantage. The Marxists in the administration and the Democratic Party crucify BP as the representative of the capitalism they hate. Republicans crucify Barack Obama...
  • THE MYSTERY OF ELENA KAGAN

    05/11/2010 6:22:59 AM PDT · by shortstop · 61 replies · 1,255+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 05/11/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    Is she a lesbian? That’s what America wants to know about Elena Kagan. Is she queer. No one will say that out loud, and I’m not sure how much of it is more than basic curiosity, but it is the top thing on people’s minds. How do I dare say that? Because it’s the truth. Throughout the day yesterday, I went to Google and typed in the words “Elena Kagan.” As I typed in more letters, and the predictive indicator tried to finish my phrase, it gave an insight into what America is looking for. The predictive indicator takes your...
  • BENNETT LOSS WAS WARNING TO GOP

    05/10/2010 6:23:20 AM PDT · by shortstop · 39 replies · 2,076+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 05/10/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    On Saturday, any number of national Republicans crapped their pants. In the middle of the afternoon, as word twitted and texted out of the Salt Palace that three-term senator Bob Bennett had been denied re-nomination, the world changed for the powers that be in the Republican Party. They got reminded who’s in charge. In a two-year effort that predates the tea parties and the Club for Growth, the conservatives of Utah sent the message that good enough isn’t good enough. Either walk the talk or make way for someone who will. It’s RINO season and we just got a big...
  • WHY WE FIGHT

    05/03/2010 5:53:44 AM PDT · by shortstop · 3 replies · 439+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 05/03/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    Of course it’s a religious war. It’s all about religion. It is a religious war and we are on the defensive. Islam is waging a war of conquest against the western world and we are engaged in a defensive action on one front of that war.It has ever been thus. And we are fools to allow our own decency and political correctness to cause us to forget that. Islam is a religion whose entire history has been about aggressive expansion. It has always spread at the point of a sword. It is a totalitarian faith of compulsion. And in recent...
  • IT'S ILLEGAL TO BE ILLEGAL

    04/28/2010 5:52:11 AM PDT · by shortstop · 32 replies · 980+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/28/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    It should be illegal to be illegal. Isn't that, after all, what "illegal" means? I don't understand the fuss over Arizona. A state, long plagued by the failure of the federal government to enforce immigration laws, has taken a step to protect itself.It has declared being an illegal immigrant a misdemeanor, an act of trespass, under state law. And it has empowered its police, in the course of their contacts with people, to inquire about and verify immigrant status. And the fit has hit the shan.The president has condemned it, Al Sharpton is going to protest it, marchers have attacked...
  • THE EARTH IS NOT MY GOD

    04/22/2010 5:51:26 AM PDT · by shortstop · 38 replies · 975+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/22/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    Earth Day is a crock. It is the high holy day of the environmentalism cult and I choose not to engage in that particular brand of idol worship. I choose not to worship the earth as if it were a god and I were a savage. I am its steward, not its slave. I wasn’t created for it, it was created for me. Man exists not as an accidental product of earth’s evolution, the earth exists as a home for man. It did not produce us, it was produced for us. God made the heavens and the earth, and he...
  • OBAMA CAN POUND SALT

    04/21/2010 7:08:23 AM PDT · by shortstop · 98 replies · 1,659+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/21/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    If it weren’t tyranny, it would be funny. But it is tyranny, so it’s not. The Obama Administration has claimed for itself the right to determine how much salt is in your food. In this last area of personal choice – taste – you have lost your choice. Or at least you will. Under a plan being floated by the Obama Food and Drug Administration, the federal government will set salt levels in food the same way it sets emission levels for cars. In the name of protecting you, the government will enslave you. And it will order food companies...
  • WE ARE ALL TEA PARTIERS TODAY

    04/15/2010 6:16:45 AM PDT · by shortstop · 14 replies · 475+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 4/15/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    We are all Tea Partiers today. Whether we’re marching on Washington or demonstrating in our own town. Even if we’re home with kids or at work like usual. We’re all Tea Partiers, and if circumstance doesn’t allow us all to stand shoulder to shoulder, we do stand heart to heart. Today, we are one. And the people they show on the evening news are representatives of us all. We may not carry signs, but we do carry Liberty’s torch. We cherish our freedom, we love our country, we’re not standing still anymore. We’re demanding to be heard. From Massachusetts to...
  • OBAMA DISARMS NUCLEAR AMERICA

    04/06/2010 5:41:01 AM PDT · by shortstop · 50 replies · 1,523+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 04/06/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    We have been bankrupted and bound, and today we will be disarmed. We have been destroyed from within, and today we will prepare to be destroyed from without. Today, Barack Obama will abandon the policy of the last half century. Today, Barack Obama will give away our trump card. Today, America will stop being a nuclear power.In the game of disarmament, Barack Obama wants to lead by example. In the game of chicken that is the international balance of power, Barack Obama wants us to put down our gun. Today, the United States will declare that it is renouncing the...
  • WE DON'T THROW BRICKS

    03/23/2010 7:39:39 AM PDT · by shortstop · 89 replies · 1,391+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 03/23/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    Sometime over the weekend, at the Monroe County Democratic headquarters in upstate New York, somebody threw a brick through the window. Attached to it, reportedly, was a quote from Barry Goldwater’s speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention. Personally, I think a Democrat did it. Few Republicans of this generation are familiar with the Goldwater quote, and it has much more currency among liberals as proof, from their standpoint, that conservatives are nuts. The quote – “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.” – was used by the media and Democrats in 1964 to beat down Goldwater’s campaign....
  • I DEEM THE DEMOCRATS FULL OF CRAP

    03/17/2010 5:58:50 AM PDT · by shortstop · 19 replies · 605+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 03/17/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    They say it will be over by Sunday. The Speaker of the House said that, the president's spokesman said that. Sometime, between now and Sunday, probably when we're not looking, when we are lulled by the empty monotone of the evening news, they will slit our throats. When they have rigged the rules just so, when they have stacked the vote the best they can, when they can cheat the system and subvert the country, they will do it. And the jug-eared caesar will proclaim that he has done what no other president could, he has reformed health care. He...
  • BIG BROTHER WANTS YOUR SALT

    03/12/2010 5:58:15 AM PST · by shortstop · 27 replies · 716+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 03/12/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    As power curdles into arrogance, the assumption of superiority becomes so intoxicating that the tyrant has no clue of how foolish or evil his conduct becomes. Like the thing with the salt. In New York, a state legislator has introduced legislation that would forbid restaurants to use salt. Each violation of the law would result in a $1,000 fine. Here’s how the legislation reads: “No owner or operator of a restaurant in this state shall use salt in any form in the preparation of any food for consumption by customers of such restaurant, including food prepared to be consumed on...
  • ERIC MASSA DUPES THE CONSERVATIVES

    03/09/2010 5:24:34 AM PST · by shortstop · 124 replies · 426+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 03/09/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    Eric Massa is a snake. But he is a brilliant snake. And in one of the most audacious p.r. moves ever, he has conned Limbaugh, Drudge and Beck – and untold millions of Americans. From a little radio studio beside a swamp, with the help of a couple of deluded backwoods yokels, he has made himself a national star.It is astounding. And proof that in American politics, it’s not how big your lie is, it’s how loud you can yell. And so it is that Eric Massa, who fled the Congress out of fear of what Ethics Committee investigators would...
  • THE END IS NEAR

    03/01/2010 6:39:45 AM PST · by shortstop · 114 replies · 2,658+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 03/01/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    The other week, while you were watching “American Idol,” Greece went bankrupt. Not all the way, but pretty close. And people have been rioting in the streets. See, the government had been financing things for years on end with debt. The government was taxing and spending, of course, but it was also borrowing. A lot. A staggering amount. So much that the people who do the lending decided they’d had enough. Which left Greece insolvent. Which brought the economy to collapse. Which created a crisis for the European Union and for its currency, the Euro. Which made the world jittery....
  • MICHELLE OBAMA THINKS YOUR KID IS FAT

    02/10/2010 4:54:21 AM PST · by shortstop · 31 replies · 1,489+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 02/10/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    I appreciate Michelle's concern, but if your kid is fat, it's your fault. Period. It's not the high-fructose corn syrup, it's not the drive-thru, it's not the Lucky Charms, it's you. And she can call for billions in new spending -- as she has -- she can call for curbs on advertising to children -- as she has -- she can even call for Grocers for Ghettos -- as she has -- but it's still going to come down to bad parenting. Let me repeat that, to make sure I hurt your feelings: Bad parenting. Fat kids don't have a...
  • OBAMA'S DOUBLE STANDARD

    01/25/2010 6:05:47 AM PST · by shortstop · 7 replies · 999+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 01/25/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    Every time I see Joe Biden, I laugh. If there ever was a poster boy for the dangers of cosmetic surgery, it’s him. His eyelift didn’t work any better than his presidential campaign. And every time I seen him, I laugh. Which helps balance the rage and contempt. And there was plenty of that this weekend. In another demonstration of the Obama Administration’s patently anti-American agenda, he threw five U.S. citizens under the Iraqi bus. I’m talking about the Blackwater guards, the men who had charges of manslaughter dropped by a federal judge who are now, Biden proudly announced in...
  • MEDIA DISTORTS MIRACLE OF HAITI RELIEF

    01/24/2010 7:00:10 AM PST · by shortstop · 24 replies · 1,037+ views
    boblonsberry.com ^ | 01/22/10 | Bob Lonsberry
    Apparently there is no Haitian word for “thank you.” At least not as translated by the American news media. A week since a horrific earthquake knocked Haiti to smithereens, reporting on the incident has hardened into an endless complaint about the failure of relief efforts. From the first days of the tragedy, when TV reporters spoke breathlessly from the shattered streets of Haiti, the questioning of locals has centered around how long they’ve gone without water, if they’re upset they haven’t been given food yet, and why they think no one has come to help them. In these halcyon days...