Perfect anthem for the Age of Obama: a song about being homeless, jobless, friendless, goin’ nowhere, just wastin’ tiiiiiiiiime…
Letter to a kindred spirit…
This is one person’s attempt to dispel the poisonous clouds and gloom of an Obama Age of Despair that is slowly engulfing us.
The Holy City: Hope springs eternal! A joyous Easter to all!
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Lift up your gates and sing!
Van Cliburn (1934-2013)
Great music, great art, great achievement, great human beings, greatness in all its incarnations is, in the words of this great American artist, “Forever!”
Charles Durning, (1923- 2012), R.I.P., Dances Out Doin’ The Sidestep
Before he began his acting career, Durning served with distinction during WWII. He was amongst the first wave of American soldiers to storm Omaha Beach on D-Day. Durning also fought in the Battle of the Bulge in which he was one of only three American soldiers to survive the Malmedy massacre. Durning earned three Purple Hearts and a Silver Star for his service.
Make My Day…National Empty Chair Day.
In another sign that Clint Eastwood’s RNC talk to an empty chair has tapped in to broadly held opinions that President Obama is not getting the job done, word spread rapidly over the weekend among conservative new media outlets that an impromptu “National Empty Chair Day” is being planned for Monday
“Hollywood Hypocrites” by Jason Matera
Jason Mattera, 28, is a New York Times bestselling author, the youngest editor of a national periodical, Human Events, and the host of “The Jason Mattera Show” on News Talk Radio 77 WABC in New York.
Mattera’s brand-new book, Hollywood Hypocrites: The Devastating Truth About Obama’s Biggest Backers (Simon & Schuster) is already creating buzz. Mark Levin hailed Hollywood Hypocrites as “eye-popping, exhaustively, researched, and absolutely hilarious” and the late Andrew Breitbart called it a “barrage of body blows to Hollywood’s holier-than-thou limousine liberals.”
“The Secret Knowledge” by David Mamet
All religions stem from the same universal needs. Each contains awe, obedience, grace, study, prayer, and submission. Each religion will order and stress these elements differently, but their root is the same—a desire to understand the Divine and its intentions for humankind.
The political impulse, similarly, must, however manifested, proceed from a universal urge to order social relations.