I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked myself how it is that so many of my fellow Americans can actually go out and vote for people as ignorant as Patty Murray, Barbara Boxer and Hank Johnson.  Rep. Johnson, in case he’s slipped your …

I realize that every conservative has plenty to complain about.  Everything from media bias to popular culture to the Marxist in the White House springs to mind.  But I, personally, have my own particular complaints.  I refer to the fact that even though those on …

Recently, a reader wrote to ask me why anyone would spend a million dollars to become a member of Congress, a job that pays less than $200,000 a year.  I explained that there were several reasons.  One, they seek fame.  Celebrity is a major goal …

I am not a wealthy person.  If I were, I would pay as little in income taxes as I could possibly get away with.   I would hire excellent accountants to assist me in this endeavor.  For one thing, I’d know that I …

For three years now, I have pointed out that even a broken clock is right twice a day, but I am still waiting for Barack Obama to be right even once.

That sort of honesty has led some people to accuse me of failing to give …

By Burt Prelutsky

I am familiar with the John Donne poem in which he claims no man is an island, further insisting that any man’s death diminishes him, but I’m afraid I don’t buy it.  When a friend of mine dies, I am crushed.  But when …