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My latest column and assorted trail mix from the opinion jar
I am four days back from vacation, which is equivalent to 100 light years away from the beach. So as I was returning to the blog to post my latest column from Cincy Magazine (scroll down if you can’t wait), I grabbed a handful of salty comments from the opinion jar. Here goes — and many thanks, as always, to those of you who still drop by here, even when nobody’s home.
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Liberal media: Close enough for government work
Your government-subsidized media at work
During 30 years in the newspaper business, I watched as the newsroom herd of independent minds followed the cowbell of liberal bias over a cliff. Every year it got worse, leading to the great leap for Obama that caused a cartwheeling free-fall of credibility. No wonder more than half the nation that calls itself conservative has turned its back on newspapers...
Three cheers for giving Shepard Fairey the bum’s rush in Covington
Shepard Fairey mural in Covington, from the Enquirer
I guess the issue is settled. Covington has better taste and higher standards than Cincinnati.
The local media have been gushing about murals in Cincinnati by artist Shepard Fairey. You can hardly turn a page in town without stumbling on one of his Stalinesque works of art, “inspired” (shoplifted?) from Communist propaganda.
What...
What the Enquirer forgot to tell you about their ‘Hero’ Harry Belafonte
Belafonte and his buddy, Hugo Chavez
If Political Correctness is a boy band like the Jonas Brothers, the Cincinnati Enquirer is a 13-year-old girl.
In case you somehow failed to notice because you have joined the thousands who are so fed up they no longer subscribe, the Enquirer was almost peeing itself over the Civil Rights game this weekend. Saturday spread the story all over the section fronts....
Stop the Presses: Someone in the Obama Administration Told the Truth
Had to love this post at NRO (National Review Online) today.
The Most Transparently Irresponsible Administration in American History [Andy McCarthy]
How could the Attorney General of the United States malign a state law as raising profound constitutional questions, imply that the lawmakers who drafted it are racists, and direct a Justice Department review of the law without having read the law?
If...
A night of yellow ribbons and red-white-and-blue patriotism
Matt Maupin
At the door they handed out rubber wrist bands that said, “Let Us Never Forget.” That, in a few words, was all that really needed to be said at the Yellow Ribbon Scholarship Fundraiser last night at the Oasis in Loveland.
Of course, there was more to say. The Maupins were there, honoring their son Matt, whose capture and MIA status captivated Cincinnati and broke our hearts for...
Oba-Me: The president’s biggest admirer is himself
Obama leaves the White House in sweatshirt and sandals -- carrying a copy of GQ with himself on the cover
Sorry for the long absence. If anyone is still sticking around to read this, thanks. I was in Michigan last weekend. I highly recommend the trip for anyone who is feeling glum about Ohio right now. Michigan has a much bigger chill, and it’s not just the winter. Nearly every headline in the...
Coming soon to a political theater near you
They say that life sometimes imitates art. If so, life in 2010 could look like bad movies and lame remakes of good ones.
"Whaddya mean I get 30 seconds to discuss 2,000 pages of boondoggle Obamacare?"
Mr. Smith Goes to Purgatory: Let’s assume for a minute that there really is a noble, innocent, Jimmy Stewart-style “Mr. Smith” in Congress. I know, you are more likely to run...
2009: 10 more reasons to distrust the media
"Experience? We don't need no stinking experience."
At this time of year, between Christmas and New Year’s, the newsroom was usually about as empty as a church on Monday. So we would pass around those lists and vote on the Biggest Stories of the Year.
As the token conservative, I always thought the lists themselves were a bit tipsy with Liberal White Lighting. Such as: No. 3...
Is the president uninformed or is he deliberately trying to deceive us about terrorism?
'Terrorism? What terrorism?'
You have to ask: Why was President Obama so wrong about the Christmas Day terrorist attack?
Why did he call it the act of “an isolated extremist”? That’s just not true, and everyone knows it.
Shouldn’t the president be better informed? Even if he is playing golf in Hawaii? Shouldn’t someone give him the inside dope on the whole thing...
