When he was a U.S. senator many years ago, Oklahoma’s Bob Kerr would occasionally express amazement at some bit of...
“The Democratic Party of the nation ain’t dead,” said New York political operative George Washington Plunkett at the turn of...
Bruce King, the former governor of New Mexico, once said with alarm: “We don’t want to open a box of...
Open wide . . . here comes another great big glob of globaloney that the Powers That Be want to...
Ronald Reagan, bless his perpetually wagging head, had a childlike devotion to the notion that “deregulation” was the castor oil...
It is said that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. But...
Greetings can be quite unique around the world. I’m told that New Zealand’s Maori tribesmen rub noses when they meet,...
t took more than a month, but the Powers That Be finally tallied the presidential vote: Bush 5, Gore 4....
Not all computer errors involve the counting of votes in Florida. Writing in Funny Times, language maven Richard Lederer tells...
Well’here we are. After two years, half a billion bucks, a forest of press releases, a tsunami of polling data,...
It’s an article of faith among the Democrats-for-Gore set that, whatever faults Al may have (his own mother describes him...
To get a job these days, chances are you’ll have to pee in a bottle. Your intimate medical history can...
See if this sounds at all familiar to you: In a faraway land, a civil war has been raging for...
As Pancho Villa lay dying, he suddenly realized his followers would expect some memorable last words from him. But he...
As most of us know by now, the Republicrat two party duopoly is squeezing the life out of our democratic...
Well, there we have it: Gore-Bush. Dull versus dullard. The political establishments of the two-party duopoly successfully rose up to...
There’s a crime wave underway in America, but the Powers That Be are getting sore necks from looking the other...
The quadrennial presidential horse race is on, and the media establishment has unleashed its army of pundits, pollsters, powdered anchors,...
Getting the diverse parts of a people’s political movement together and moving in the same direction at the same time...
Bo Pilgrim is a big-time chicken processor in East Texas, but he wasn’t known to the average Texan until he...
Mark Twain once said, “Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.” I’ve been...
Imagine it. A world in which you, the average American worker, gets a princely $110,000 a year for your efforts....
David Lubar is the author of a funny Q&A piece about HMOs that has made the rounds on the Internet....
How many pockets does a political candidate have? As many as it takes. In recent years, the tailors have been...
Have you heard of the ‘Butterfly Effect?’ Both a scientific concept and an ecological reality, its essence is that the...