My very first appointment last Friday morning (at a mind-numbing 6:30 a.m., I might add) was with Rabbi Mordechi Slivovitz, an august, erudite and truly imposing personage who also happens to be, among many, many other things, the current President of the Chosen Peoples’ Order of the Masada Machabee Martyrs, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland. … Continue reading Zionist Leaders Contemplate Unholy Alliance to Defeat Hagel
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NRA Plots a Massacre of the Facts
What with the Mayan Long Count Apocalypse just days a way, the president of Egypt behaving like a Pharaoh, Syria in the midst of a protracted rebellion, Israel madder at the Palestinians than an Orthodox rabbi who has caught his wife eating a bacon cheeseburger, the Chinese on the verge of armed conflict with both the… Continue reading NRA Plots a Massacre of the Facts
Welcome, New Members of the 113th Congress!
Every two years, another crop of freshman senators and representatives descends on Washington, and one of the very first things they do is attempt to contact me for the answers to a number of… well, shall we say, very special questions. As a matter of fact, since I started this Web log, every two years… Continue reading Welcome, New Members of the 113th Congress!
Norquist Pledge Proves Politically Taxing
Thursday morning, Gretchen rang my extension and asked, “Mr. Collins, who the hell is Grover Norquist?” “Why do you ask?” I inquired. “Because there’s this guy on Line Two who said he’s somebody named ‘Grover Norquist,’ and when I asked him, ‘How do you spell your last name, sir?’ he went ballistic! He was like,… Continue reading Norquist Pledge Proves Politically Taxing
Promises, Promises – Texas Talks Secession Yet Again
Unlike the majority of Americans who took the day after Thanksgiving off, either to sleep late and spend extra quality time with their families (that would be the sane ones) or viciously fight with each other at the shopping mall over things they don’t need (that would be most of them, unfortunately), I went to… Continue reading Promises, Promises – Texas Talks Secession Yet Again