A Good Year for the Outlaw

I’ve watched the demise of a major part of the American auto industry with equal part sadness and anger these past few months.
Without getting too much into politics, who’s to blame, who’s not to blame, and how to fix it, I just want to add one segment to the list of folks who should [...]

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In the months since Mr. Obama became President Obama, I have been pooh-poohing a certain Peoria-area blogger’s (whose site I no longer visit, Billy) constant whining and fear mongering about what he thought was a return of the Fairness Doctrine, all because one or two politicians made off-the-cuff remarks wondering if it needed to be [...]

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I wouldn’t have expected anything else, but it’s still high-larious when the McCain camp and their shills at the WSJ make a big boo boo. From Bloomberg this morning:
McCain kept everyone hanging on whether he’d participate in the first presidential debate. There was no doubt among his advertising staff. In fact, several hours before the [...]

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Let me first state I think Phil Luciano is a great columnist, and I am always entertained by his writing style, and “get it” when it comes to Phil’s sense of humor. He’s damn good at what he does in the paper.  But I take, shall we say, significant umbrage at yesterday’s baloney-filled column about speeding [...]

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It’s always laughable to read letters to the PJS editor complaining about their “liberal” attitudes and their left-leaning ways. The PJS is far from a left wing paper. Far.
Take, for instance, today. On A1, above the fold, in bold headline, we find that the Death Tolls Are Down In Iraq. The story is a good [...]

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Here is my response to this column by Cal Thomas at pjstar.com today.: 
What a very fine, heartfelt column from Mr. Thomas, and his fourth and fifth paragraphs say it all. As a Democrat, I myself have felt the wrath of those who call me “anti-American” and a “hater of America”. Quite the contrary. I am one [...]

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My first reaction to the story about the 25-year old who died on his motorcycle the other night is the sadness I feel for the family who lost a loved one way too young. My second reaction is, upon reading that he was not wearing a helmet, frustration that people can’t get it right, both [...]

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