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'Gentlemen, start your hamsters!'
Dear Mayor Mark Mallory:
I have an exciting offer that could really put Cincinnati on the map with an event that unites two completely opposite groups: NASCAR Nation and the tree-hugging environmental Green Goreistas.
I’m talking about the First Annual Cincinnati Gran Prius.
The timing could not be better. I see by the news that you were burned by...
Take a gun to jail… stay there.
Which one doesn't belong in jail? This...?
... Or this?
My nomination for stupidest bad-guy of 2010 comes from this story in the Enquirer.
The story goes like this:
Bad guy takes a loaded gun to jail. That’s right, the county slammer. Showing up with a gun at the jailhouse is like carrying a pound of pot into a police station. Flat guaranteed to get you a reserved room in the Graybar Motel....
I’ve seen the face of Nanny Government, and it’s not pretty
"Please, Sir, may I have another?"
As a Joe College freshman at Western Michigan University, I spent most of my first day on campus standing in line at registration to pick up my class schedule. When I finally got to the table, footsore and brain-numb, I found out I was in the “C-D” line, when my card was just an arm’s reach away in the “A-B” line for “Bronson.”
“Please,”...
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...
Obama does an Olbermann – makes Supreme Court the Worst Person in the World
Show a little respect
“Democrats” and “tradition” seldom appear in the same sentence, unless the left is doing something to trash a tradition — such as traditional marriage, prayer in public, strong defense, respect for the military, free speech, etc.
But who knew Democratic presidents would be so good at establishing new traditions?
We can thank Jimmy Carter for the Sore...
Not a revolution yet, but you can see it from here
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland must be sweating .50-cal. bullets.
His sidekick Lee Fisher is probably shopping for retirement property in Florida.
Rep. Steve Driehaus keeps looking over his shoulder to check the target on his back.
The Mass. uprising of 2010 is making politicians chase their tails and yip like dogs that feel an earthquake coming on.
The defeat of a hand-picked Democrat who was supposed...
Will the Mass. uprising spread to Ohio too?
Sorry for the absence here lately. I went back to work last week, so I haven’t had as much time for blogging, but I hope to get back to it regularly.
I’m now editor of Cincy Mazgazine. Subscriptions are free. It’s a great crew and a growing magazine. So I hope readers here will subscribe and follow our work there, as well. We have some great articles and topics coming up, and I...
Tags: Kasich, Kennedy, LExington, Liberty, Massachusetts, Obama, OBamacare, Ohio, Portman, Strickland
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...
The most permanent temporary tax in history will only get worse
When it was created, the federal income tax was supposed to be temporary. But it became about as temporary as the common cold virus.
Each winter, it comes back, causing headaches, watery eyes, choking and that old drained-out feeling. We are forced to spend a fortune on remedies that only treat the symptoms.
And now the IRS wants to make the tax virus much worse — by regulating tax preparation...
‘Up in the Air’ never got off the runway
George Clooney playing George Clooney -- as usual
According to the critics, that new George Clooney movie about a guy who racks up 10 million sky miles flying all over the country to fire people is “wonderful.”
I have to admit, it left me full of wonder.
I wondered why I ever listen to the critics who are unanimously full of crap. They stuff they call good “cinema” is...
