Somebody please tell me how Steve Malzberg and Jerry Agar have radio shows.  What do they add to the mix? Their points of view are not original.  I just do not get it.

Senator Biden said, "The only thing emboldening our enemies is your failed policies."  He's right!  The failed policies emboldened our enemies and a return to those failed polices continues to embolden them.  The new policy being put in place is defeating our enemies.  Defeatism emboldens them.

When I was a teenager, I bought into global freezing hysteria.  I bought into the economist’s consensus that America is in a hopeless economic decline hysteria.  At the time, no shortage existed for doom and gloom.

I don’t buy it anymore.  Global warming hysteria?  Not to disrespect science, but they haven’t figured out the causes or cures for most cancers, which can be placed under a microscope.  But we somehow know that industrialization of the recent past is the cause of global warming. 

It’s as clear as the theory of gravity, according to Al Gore.  Even gravity’s underlying theory has changed over the course of centuries.  Sure, I won’t jump out a window thinking that I will somehow stay aloft.  As the same time, I can’t begin to tell you why I would fall to the round.  Wave theory, quantum theory, string theory.  There is so much we just don’t know.

Global warming hysterics should tell the starving poverty stricken people all over the world about the evils of industrialization.  Which leads me to one last item:  I don’t buy the immigration hysteria out there either.

The only hysteria I buy into is not an hysteria:  The war against Islamo-Nazis must be fought.  Let the weak left call me an hysteric about that all day.  I do not care.

In Boulder City, Colorado,a grade-school student found a mouse in his potato chip bag.  The bag and its contents were sent back to Frito-Lay for testing.  Frito-Lay said it would have results within two weeks.

What exactly could the results be?  It's a mouse.  I suppose it could be shown that the mouse was not indigenous to the area where the chips' packaging plant is located.  And does it take two weeks to prove this?

An $8.95 check arrived in the mail the other day, addressed from a credit card issuer.

At first, I thought it came from one of the idiotic multi-level marketing schemes over which I had obsessed this past summer.  Maybe I really had earned my first commission for referring some poor soul to a credit card company.

Since it seemed unlikely, I more closely examined the check.  On the back, it informed me that signing and depositing the check entitled me to the privilege of becoming a member of their rewards program, carrying an annual $129.00 fee.  I read it over several times.  The offer was get $8.00 now; pay $129.00 a little bit later.

Isn't that just like what every legislature promises, from the lowly town council all the way up to Congress?

Stop invoking Reagan already.  Every Republican candidate, constantly praising Reagan and reminding us what a big influence he was on their thinking. 

Just give me the facts, guys.  Tell me what you want to do to continue to secure and improve America.  Do not ive me some bogus shorthand that uses Reagan as an adjective:  Reagan tax cuts, Reagan foreing policy, Reagan common sense.

Turning Reagan into an object of worship will ultimately -- if it hasn't already -- fossilize the Republicans the same way that overuse of "JFK" as an icon has ultimately hurt the Democrats.

And yes, let me paraphrase JFK:  We need leadership, not salesmanship.

Hamas recent statement that it would consider a long-term truce with Israel if Israel withdraws from land it captured in the 1967 war to make way for a Palestinian state and allows Palestinian refugees to return.

While Israel would be commiting suicide under this proposal, State Department officials most certainly see this as positive first step by Hamas.

We just gottat keep on talkin' baby.  Talk for the sake of talk.

Listening to Bill Bennett talk to his brother Bob this morning.  Bob Bennett contrarian view:  Both Fitzgerald's and Kenneth Starr's investigation were not politically motivated.  Instead, both were motivated by the justice system's absolute intolerance of lying under oath.

I never thought of that.  Does that mean that the Libby verdict is not a tragedy?

My office is hoplelessly sloppy.  I listen to jazz; take jazz guitar lessons.  Then again, I do like country music.

Wait a second:  I'm wild about talk radio, but I also like the occasional romantic comedy.  I am a fairly traditional  Jew.  Consciousness of death?  I am the child of concentration camp survivors -- how could I not be?

I consider myself open-minded, intellectually curious, have sought perhaps too much excitement in my time.  Novelty, creativity for its own sake, and a craving for stimulation like travel, color, art, music, and literature -- yes, yes and the rest of those yesses.

On balance, I must be liberal, according to a study I saw in Psychology Today.

Am I the exception that proves the rule?  I have not identified myself with liberal causes or positions since college; more than twenty years. 

I suspect these studies are designed to prove that liberals are intellectually and emotionally superior to conservatives.

Come off it already.  I am a human being, with both simple needs and complex desires.

Jimmy Carter has a good press agent for sure. 

The New York Times Nick von Kristof has decided to tout Carter's efforts in combating blindness in Africa.  I am sure it is a very good cause.  But why now?  And why is it important that we know Carter's association.  Also, must the tone be so breathless?  Going around asking "Have you ever heard of Jimmy Carter?"  As if they would never have heard of the Messiah himself.

Yet, so little reporting about Carter's anti-Zionism (dare I say anti-Semitism?); Arab oil money which has bankrolled him for so many years; and certainly little or no reporting on his failed Presidency -- he was an imcompetent masquerading as a technocrat.

Instead, we get one more nomination for sainthood from a Times columnist.  Who pays these people to write these articles?

I have lots of respect for bloggers.  I tried and failed to maintain a blog a few months back.  It sounds weird, but I got so despondent after the Republican defeat in November -- even though they desserved it -- that I couldn't express anything.  I got tired of talk radio.  Felt that Hannity and Levin had been apologists.  Still dug Rush, but thought he too had been co-opted.  Who knows?  Gotta go.