Did Romney and his Horrible Sons Kidnap Two Nice Doggies?
Applying the same journalistic standards as the Daily Caller and the Washington Times in their reporting of the Robert Menendez story yesterday morning, we at the Patriot-Ombudsman can now reveal the...
View ArticleMitt Romney: The “Post Truth” Candidate…An apple that fell far from its tree
Years ago, Mitt Romney’s father, George, noted that it should be a given that candidates running for president should release multiple years of tax returns. George Romney released 12 years of returns....
View ArticleHockey and ‘High Noon’
So….America races to ‘High Noon’ today, and the world awaits the victorious gunslinger, their weapons of choice these past weeks less than compelling rhetoric and billion dollar PAC-driven smoke...
View ArticleVote!
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View ArticleFin. Finally….Election Day is Over and the Nation Looks Forward
One of the things that I get to explain to inquisitive European friends is that America’s several time zones make for a very long Election Night. Despite pre-election web-surfed emigre house shopping...
View ArticleCampaign Overindulgence: Reaffirming the Need for Common Sense Campaign...
“Americans. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.” ~ Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark One of the recurring, yet oft-debunked, Republican attack fibs was that President Obama made...
View ArticlePost-Election Fallout: The Night of the Long Knives, Part Deux
“This evil organization will not tolerate failure!” ~ Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery As a political columnist, I perversely relish morning-after losing side recriminations. As the old...
View ArticleElection 2012: *points and snickers*
Since President Obama’s reelection Tuesday night, Republicans’ reflections on their embarrassing loss, ironically, have been a reflection of the exact reasons why they lost. In the aftermath, the...
View ArticleTaking the Low Road
As an ultra sensitive artist, I take things personally. In the natural course of events, I am sometimes able to purge my anger, and sometimes not. And lately, I’ve had to absorb a lot of crap from the...
View ArticleEven More Schadenfreude: Karl Rove Going Down for the Third Time
Political strategists come and go like football coaches, sliding into obscurity when their team loses, but this guy? Karl Rove? He’s been doing this since the 1970s! In all that time, he’s invented...
View ArticlePolitisk Komedie (Norsk: Political Comedy)
How, pray tell, did we ever survive America’s endless campaigns without comedy? Even those Michele Bachmann jokes didn’t make themselves up all on their own. Do we have to make it an Olympic sport?In...
View ArticleShed those holiday dinner pounds: ‘Inauguration Lite’ Suggested for the POTUS
There are perfectly logical topics which simply bring out my “inner wiseguy.” It was a long campaign. In his entirely sensible piece on NPR bringing up whether, as it is a reelection and we have this...
View ArticleDear Media: Get Mitt Romney Off My Television NOW!
This is the final time I should have seen Mitt Romney on my television screen…. But noooo! Election Day is over, the polls are closed, the pundits have moved on to the fiscal cliff. And Mitt Romney is...
View ArticleLet me in, Immigration Man.
In a nation of immigrants, since the first landed on Plymouth Rock, each wave of new wannabe Americans were all too keen to slam the door behind them. The early natives probably weren’t happy with our...
View ArticleThe Year of the GOP Snake
“Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?” -Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) By the Chinese calendar, 2013 ought to have been a banner year for conservatives. As crestfallen Ann...
View ArticleBeware of elephants bearing ‘gifts’
So the Republican-controlled House of Representatives proposed a $982 billion bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year instead of more brinksmanship. Before we start dancing in the...
View ArticleCPAC 2013: ‘Crazy birds’ Flock
“If standing for the Constitution, standing for liberty, standing for conservative values makes one a wacko bird … then I am pleased that birds of a feather flock together.” – Sen. Marco Rubio...
View ArticleDeath and Taxes
April has come and gone, and virtually all of us have dutifully filed a tax return or an extension. The anti-tax mob hasn’t gone anywhere. Somebody’s going to have to pay the tab, according to their...
View ArticleGOP: Bring Out Your Dead.
“I’m not dead yet!” – Monty Python and the Holy Grail Perhaps I should be tiring of this country’s endless campaigns. As a political columnist, it does mean the well never runs dry for source...
View ArticleMitt Romney: Zombie Candidate for 2016?
Chances are, the last time you saw Mitt Romney it was when he was on TV giving his concession speech or, days later, when a photo of the disheveled looking former presidential candidate was snapped as...
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