Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman Yes, it is possible. You can pursue the American dream. And maybe even be on your way to achieving it by age 11. That won’t necessarily stop comments by racists or cretins who think it’s cool and intelligent to stereotype, belittle and insult. But they can’t stop a proud and [...]
By now the news has spread that President Obama’s credibility in the eyes of most Americans has been taking huge blows. In a recent CNN poll, the President’s approval rating dropped to just 45% in early June, a full eight points lower than the previous month. Unsurprisingly, the numerous government-related scandals have taken their toll [...]
Exclusive Excerpt from: “Comical Sense: A Lone Humorist Takes on a World Gone Nutty!” by Tom Purcell “Let’s go, he can’t hit, he can’t hit.” “Stop the game! How dare you suggest that the batter, an innocent 12-year-old child who only wants to make contact with the ball, cannot hit! Have you considered how your [...]
Get this: A new study finds men don’t mature until age 43. If only my father could have enjoyed such a luxury. Great Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper reports that the study, commissioned by Nickelodeon UK, examined differences in maturity between men and women. It found both sexes agree that men are far less mature and [...]
Raging Moderate, by Will Durst Dear U.S. Citizen, Please accept our most egregiously sincere apologies for the difficulties and inconveniences the secret monitoring of your phone records and email and GPS units and foreign travel and bank accounts and yes, even your snail mail has evidently caused. We here at the NSA strive for the [...]
By a 82-15 vote, the Senate has taken up comprehensive immigration reform. Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised an “open as possible process” for amendments, which means creating a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants still hasn’t cleared two formidable roadblocks in Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, who respectively are [...]
Exclusive Excerpt from: “An Apple Core, a Toilet: Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood” by Tom Purcell I don’t know what I was thinking: In 1973, when I was 11, I flushed an apple core down the toilet, an action I would come to regret. As it went, my father had remodeled our basement into a [...]
We are all celebrities now. Ever since we won Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006, the same year we first found out about the National Security Administration spying on us, we’ve all become essentially public figures. It’s the new equality: We are all stars! “Private citizen” is now akin to “paid volunteer” — [...]
Liberals are slurping at a new yet familiar theme trough: Republicans are hypocrites because they’re against NSA surveillance now but were all for it during the Bush administration. It’s a simplistic verbal backslap designed to make lemmings feel good about themselves. The real truth is more nuanced and reasonable. During the Bush administration, the program [...]
It is time to blow the whistle on newspaper editors who claim that they rid themselves of their editorial cartoonist for “budgetary” reasons. It is a dishonest, disingenuous and duplicitous assault on the truth. That is not to say that there are not budgetary problems facing newspapers across America, just that it is not the [...]
