Archive for April, 2009

Tax Day in Bizarro World

April 28th, 2009 – 9:38 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

Well, the April 15th tea parties came and went. Depending on whom you ask, they were either a) a rousing success that demonstrated the level of frustration common to most middle class working Americans or b) or a few isolated conservative crack-pots huddled together and being just plain contrary.
ACORN, the delightfully non-partisan organization solely [...]

The Politics of Smoking

April 21st, 2009 – 10:09 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

With a cigarette smoking president in the White House for the first time in decades and an economy in the dumps, the perennial battle between the Federal Government and the tobacco industry lobby could be a little bit more interesting than usual this year. If you haven’t been following this dance for the past [...]

Political Guru Kal Penn

April 14th, 2009 – 10:15 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

President Obama took a bold step this week. In order to shore up America’s flagging confidence in the state of the economy, protect our borders from foreign attack, and regain our standing among the world powers, the president hired actor Kal Penn as a PR liaison.
Penn, widely heralded as an expert on [...]

Governmental Motors

April 7th, 2009 – 10:03 am Posted by Ronald A. Rowe

Now that President Obama fired the old boss, I guess that makes him the new CEO of General Motors. Since the federal government has done such a good job of running lean and mean in the past, we certainly can trust that Chairman Obama will have GM producing cheap, fuel efficient, stylish cars at [...]