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Where the girls are not

White House fraternity of male bonding

Friday, Oct. 30, 2009

These are vexed times. The country is at war on two fronts. Rogue states are edging toward acquiring strategic nuclear weaponry. We have been through a very serious recession from which we may not emerge into the bright morn of economic health for years. The dollar is frail. The future of national health care, finance and corporate governance is in doubt. Yet that is not all.

Dangerous zanies

Attacks on First Amendment are not amusing

Friday, Oct. 23, 2009

We are at that delicious moment in a modern Democratic presidential administration when the bizarre fantasticos who decorate each chaotic regime make their painful appearance - though this administration is bringing a whiff of the ominous. Let me explain.

Another Clinton scandal

Jockeying versions of events in a dining room

Friday, Oct. 16, 2009

I have been defamed by Taylor Branch, and he will not reply to my repeated calls for clarification. The defamation takes place in his new book, "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President." The defamation he printed comes from the Boy President himself, so perhaps my reputation will emerge immaculate. By now I think it is pretty clear to all Americans that Bill Clinton tells the truth only when he misspeaks.

White-collar hero

Langone strikes a blow against class warfare

Friday, Oct. 9, 2009

If you happen to be in Manhattan on Monday, do not miss the Columbus Day Parade gliding up Fifth Avenue. It will be a gaudy, joyful affair as always, but it will feature something especially timely.

Freedom from foreign oil

Natural gas is an all-American winner

Friday, Oct. 2, 2009

Boone Pickens likes to call it a "game changer," and the game he has in mind is a big one, the game for our global energy security. Boone is the billionaire Texas oilman who years ago warned that the price of oil will continue to go up, price plateau by price plateau - each plateau being higher and more expensive for the American consumer.

The next advent

Newt Gingrich is its prophet

Friday, Sept. 25, 2009

Was I wrong about him? I have voiced a low opinion of Newt Gingrich since the mid-1990s. It was then that I concluded that Newt was the Republican equivalent of Boy Clinton. That is to say, Newt was a 1960s narcissist of the student government variety.

Absurdity meter overload

Today's news exceeds the limits of lunacy

Friday, Sept. 18, 2009

My absurdity meter has blown up. The current news has been simply too much for this frail device, which I attach to my television set to give me a daily reading of the news' absurdity content.

Buchanan refights World War II

Was Churchill's reaction just a bit over the top?

Friday, Sept. 11, 2009

Sept. 1 was the 70th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg into Poland and the beginning of World War II. Fifty million people died. Western Europe was devastated. Eastern Europe was more thoroughly devastated and subjected to communist tyranny that for decades seemed invincible and a threat to the Free World, which remained armed and vigilant.

Mark Sanford's somnambulism

Compared with his Argentine affair, his reforms are 'dull'

Friday, Sept. 4, 2009

Why is the governor of South Carolina still a national news story?