Land Grab

Archive [July 2000]   IT ALL BELONGS TO ME!   President Clinton has been going around confiscating huge chunks of the United States. (His theme song: “This land is my land, this land is my land, from California, to the New York island…”). He claims he is “protecting” these confiscated acres by declaring them “national […]

“Stupid Quotes”

Archive [July 2000]   “Playing with the President was weird. He shot a 90. At the end of the game, his scorecard said 84.” — BRYCE MOLDER, FOURTH-RANKED NCAA GOLFER, AFTER A ROUND OF GOLF WITH BILL CLINTON AT CHENAL COUNTRY CLUB IN LITTLE ROCK, AR. QUOTED IN MAXIMUM GOLF MAGAZINE How mean-spirited of you to notice. […]

Speech Control

William Safire

Archive [July 2000] My Conversation With  I was honored to speak with the brilliant New York Times columnist and novelist, one of the great writers of the age. Rush: Let me thank you for carving out a little time for this. How’s your book, Scandalmonger, doing? Safire: I think they’ve got about 55,000 copies in print. […]

News Digest

Archive [July 2000]   MUSICAL FAIRNESS Great Britain’s Labor government has published a booklet urging teachers to ban the game of… musical chairs. Yes, that musical chairs, the children’s favorite for generations. Why should it be prohibited? Well, because musical chairs is a confrontational nursery game that “encourages aggression.” Sue Finch, the author of Towards […]

The Secret Of America’s National Greatness

Archive [July 2000]   On May 23, George W. Bush appeared at the National Press Club to speak on national defense policy. A reporter from Russia asked, “How do you define the national greatness of the United States? Do you think that the national greatness of any country in this day and age should be […]

Crack Artist

  Hunter Biden’s new art career has taken quite an auspicious turn. According to Artnet.com, he’s now a “full-time” artist, even though he has no formal art training. Which is totally shocking when you see the immense talent on display. Hunter’s dealer — that is, art dealer, it must be specified — is Soho gallery owner […]

Vaccine Lies

SPECIAL KIND OF STUPID   “Unvaccinated Americans, disproportionately Republican Fox viewers, are fueling the surge.” — Brianna Keilar, cnn host, on Twitter, 8/9/21   “The U.S. vaccination campaign started strong, then hit a wall of right-wing obstinance… [M]isinformation peddlers … conned millions of Americans — Southerners, Westerners, and conservatives, mostly — into believing vaccines were part of some […]

Beware Groupthink!

YOUR GUIDING LIGHT   By Rush Limbaugh   One of Rush’s great strengths was his natural aversion to conventional wisdom. His impatience with the typical take on things informed his analysis on every issue. It was his starting point: whatever the standard, elite-approved opinion was on a news event or an idea, he rejected instantly […]

“Stupid Quotes”

“I’ve decided that being me is more important than being anything else.” — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, NY), cnn special Be all you can be, Evita.   “It hasn’t quite worked out as we thought.” — Rick Stengel, former Obama State Department staffer, on Biden’s Afghanistan mess, msnbc Everyone but the Obama-Biden “experts” knew how this would […]