It’s almost over. The billboards. The TV commercials. The radio spots. The debates. The interviews. The handshakes. The photo ops. The auto-dialed phone calls. The full page ads. The political action committees. The rallies. The speeches. The political pundits along with their up to the minute opinion polls replete with graphs and charts. It’s all almost over. With just about 24 hours left before the midterm [...]
“Where does a self-made man go on Mother’s Day?” Such were the rhetorical tidbits an old friend of mine’s father would come up with. He had a ton of them. The best I was ever able to retort in this battle of clever witticisms was a lame response like “Yea, well, you can lead a horticulture [...]
I have indeed known some real doozies in my life. Like a fellow I knew named Pat that worked on a road building crew. He would go out every weekend and simply abuse himself to the point of a comatose like blackout. He always claimed he had a great weekend but he could never tell you [...]
What a difference a year makes. Think back just 12 short months ago when the new popinjay Messiah was just installed into the oval office and Democrats were preparing for their one thousand year Reich. Nancy Pelosi was all-powerful in the House and Harry Reid was running the show on the Senate side. It was a [...]
Yea, but he started it. The childish antics of our elected officials continue. Republicans are being accused of maliciously blocking proposals by Democrats, Democrats are locking out Republicans from key negotiations and the president, who only spent enough time in the Hallowed Halls of Congress to have a cup of coffee, is clueless as to [...]
Let’s pretend for a moment that you are one of the lucky ones to still be employed. Now let’s pretend that your employer has a huge job to tackle that will likely mean the difference between the company’s survival if it succeeds or its agonizing and certain demise if it fails. This job will take [...]
Welcome to the reality show drama that is Illinois politics. Primary election day has come and gone in Illinois. Voter turnout, which is historically light for primary elections, was about average for this state with a dysfunctional Republican Party and a powerful Chicago controlled Democrat machine. But maybe, just maybe, Illinois Republicans are getting [...]
I was just sitting back reminiscing some of the top stories of the past year or so and I got a case of the “What ever happened to’s”. Like what ever happened to all the congressional hearings we were supposed to have investigating the price gouging being carried out by the major oil refiners [...]
Women and children first. Captain Hope E. Changey delivered his first State of the Union address last night and basically gave a pep talk to all the terrified passengers who are scrambling for the rail of the severely listing USS Obama. Don’t panic, was his message, I’m still in control here. Unfortunately that is exactly why [...]
Don’t you just hate it when the news media latches onto a new word and then beats it like a drum until all the meaning has been whipped out of it? You can’t swing a cat in a TV newsroom, anchor desk or print media press room without hitting someone using the new buzzword [...]
