Archive for August, 2011

I am pleased to report the sighting of an artifact so rarely seen among Democrats that it has become the stuff of legend and conjecture, like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster. It is called a spine.

Said spine was briefly glimpsed a little over a week ago…

How much more death and destruction of Libyans is necessary to protect Libyans?

The rebel forces in Libya — which have yet to be recognized formally and fully by the United States as a new government or as even having control of the nation’s…

— First lady Michelle Obama was once a reluctant campaigner, but there are plenty of reasons she’s primed to play a major role in her husband’s re-election bid.

She’s more popular than the president. She’s seasoned now. And she’s so careful in…

He arrived in Chicago just days before the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, a tough, uncompromising New York prosecutor already steeped in fighting the new international threat.

His outsider status and appointment to an already high-profile…

A Woodlawn low-income housing complex once criticized for its deplorable conditions while being managed by a firm headed by a close adviser to President Barack Obama will now benefit from a federal grant that Mayor Rahm Emanuel hopes will make it a…

There’s something terribly un-American about those harsh new laws banning saggy pants.

You know the saggy pants I’m talking about. They’re worn by young American males; pants so droopy that undershorts and what’s under undershorts are exposed,…

President Barack Obama has agreed to delay a key speech to Congress on jobs and the economy after House Speaker John Boehner objected to the original date of the address.

Sarah Palin soon will end the will-she-or-won’t-she presidential speculation that has trailed her for two years — and that she has fueled with abandon, perhaps to the detriment of her potential candidacy.

“America is waiting for the president to make…