WeinerPantsGate: End Of Story?
Congressman Anthony Weiner has finally said unambiguously that he did NOT send that waist-down picture of someone in gray underwear displaying the outline of his long-form man-certificate. End of story? I hope not. He says he’s not sure if the picture was of him or not, which is a little weird, but hey — he […]15 years ago
Rep. Anthony Weiner shows how not…to NOT answer a question
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Rep. Anthony Weiner shows how not…to NOT answer a question The allegation is that last week, in the Twitter account of a college student in Seattle, a tweet arrived from the account of Representative Anthony Weiner which included a photograph of male underwear clearly showing the outline of someone’s long-form […]15 years ago
Sarah Palin, easy rider
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Sarah Palin, easy rider The male Republican nomination-seekers have a big problem. They’re boring. All that stuff about debt and health care is like listening to Al Gore predicting when the ice cap will melt. But look who just rolled into town: Reporter: When are you planning to announce that […]15 years ago
Why can’t we goof off?
Listen to Dave’s Commentary: Why can’t we goof off? Today is that rarest of days — a vacation day that Americans actually use. ONLY when the whole office is closed do we feel OK about taking a day off. Expedia’s latest vacation time study found the average American takes only 14 paid vacation days. Even […]15 years ago
Why Johnny Can’t Read, But Lefty Can
A teacher sent me this Op-Ed by Nathan Bootz, superintendent of Public Schools in Ithaca, Michigan. Excerpt: Consider the life of a Michigan prisoner. They get three square meals a day, access to free health care, Internet, cable television, access to a library, access to weight rooms, and access to computer labs. While in prison […]15 years ago
Instead of a public stimulus, let’s try a private stimulus
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Instead of a public stimulus, let’s try a private stimulus The economic numbers remain tepid. “Consumer spending was up only 2.2 percent, that was versus 2.7 percent,” said a news report. Even people who are working aren’t spending money: “If you have a job that’s great, but you don’t feel […]15 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg slaughters a goat!
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Mark Zuckerberg slaughters a goat! Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, who has been on a self improvement kick that had him learning Chinese last year, and learning to wear neckties the year before that, has set a new challenge for himself: he is only eating meat from animals he has […]15 years ago
Is the Tea Party Dead?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Is the Tea Party Dead? New York’s 26th congressional district comprises the conservative suburbs of Rochester and Buffalo, and lately it’s been solidly Republican. Last year it gave Republican Congressman Chris Lee 73 percent of the vote! And then — a month after taking his oath, Rep Lee sent a […]15 years ago
How Oprah came to own the letter “O”
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: How Oprah came to own the letter “O” It’s a measure of how big you are when you’re known not only by your first name, but the first LETTER of your first name. How did Oprah do this? By realizing that most people aren’t thinking about whether Israel should make […]15 years ago
Forget Harold Camping.
Listen to Forget Harold Camping Mr. End of the World turned out to be a phony — but a REAL end times lesson DID emerge over the weekend — that cell phone recording from a Fastrip convenience store near Joplin where a group of people were trying to figure out what to do about the […]15 years ago
If disappointed Harold Camping followers are searching for someone new to follow…try Dave Ross
Dave Ross Commentary - Listen: If disappointed Harold Camping followers are searching for someone new to follow . . . try Dave Ross There was a volcano in Iceland, a small earthquake near San Francisco, and that terrible tornado in Missouri.
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What will Fido do if the world ends on Saturday?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: What will Fido do, if the world ends on Saturday? “It’s going to be a horror story,” says Christian preacher Harold Camping, whose followers have bought thousands of billboards naming Saturday as Judgment Day — the day they’ll be raptured into Heaven — minus their clothes. And for Bart Centre, […]15 years ago
Jesus is not coming Saturday May 21
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Jesus is not coming Saturday May 21 So let me just come out and say it: no matter what’s on the billboards, Jesus is not coming Saturday night. I can say this with complete assurance, because I know that if I’m wrong, no one will even remember this broadcast. Whereas […]15 years ago
Surprise! Private Law Enforcement Markets Itself!
You can love red light cameras or you can hate ’em. You can consider them legit or just a way to squeeze money out of you. But what’s beyond dispute is that they are the fulfillment of this Conservative/Libertarian dream of privatizing government functions. So why does this story surprise anyone? …A poster to the […]15 years ago
San Francisco takes on circumcision
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: San Francisco takes on circumcision San Francisco, the city that took on plastic bags, and overly-tempting toys in Happy Meals, will now take on circumcision. It’s official — an initiative to ban circumcision under the age of 18 in San Francisco has enough signatures to get on the November ballot […]15 years ago
Newt Gingrich: How DARE you quote me!
Dave Ross Commentary - Listen: Newt Gingrich: How DARE you quote me!
Newt Gingrich -- former House speaker, latest Presidential candidate -- decided the way to stand out from the pack would be not only to slam President Obama for being too deep into left field, but to criticize REPUBLICAN budget hawk Paul Ryan for being too deep into RIGHT field with his Medicare reform plan:
"I don't think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering.
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Magic Formula Cuts Sales Tax!
The state portion of the sales tax is now 6.5%, but the legislature could cut it to 4.2% without bankrupting the state. All it takes is to get rid of all the exemptions — transactions that are exempt from the sales tax just because… they are. The Washington State Budget and Policy Center provides this […]15 years ago
Arnold Schwarzenegger love child revealed
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Arnold Schwarzenegger love child revealed We’ve already had two front page sex-related revelations this week. Sunday, Rick Welts, President of Phoenix Suns, decided he couldn’t keep his secret any longer, and announced he’s gay. And last night, Arnold Schwarzenegger decided he couldn’t keep HIS secret any longer: “Arnold Schwarzenegger disclosed […]15 years ago
Economists gone wild!
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Economists gone wild! A 62-year-old man looking to satisfy his libido, an attractive hotel housekeeper… it’s a classic French farce! Except in this case, the man is French economist Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who happens to run the International Monetary Fund. And now, because the housekeeper entered his $3000-a-night room at the […]15 years ago
China, you can’t have our SUV lifestyle
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Congress holds hearings; gas doesn’t budge For those of you NEW to this country, we have a tradition here that whenever the price of gas exceeds the price of a Starbucks Caramel Frappucino, we hold a congressional hearing. We call in oil company CEOs and subject them to enhanced interrogation […]15 years ago
Big Oil Breastfeeds In Public
Here’s a fairly boring memo on oil subsidies from the Congressional Research Service. Bottom line — when oil companies say they need their generous tax break to finance exploration and keep oil prices down, they’re making it up. The Section 199 deduction for the oil industry is a 6% deduction from net income… the repeal […]15 years ago
Osama bin Laden kept a personal journal
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Osama bin Laden kept a personal journal Nevermind the gory pictures, I want to see bin Laden’s personal journal. Investigators reveal that in one passage, he wonders how many Americans would have to die on U.S. soil to force the US government to withdraw from the Arab world. He advises […]15 years ago
Truer Than Truth
So there’s no misunderstanding, Onion News Network is a joke. But still… WASHINGTON—Sources in the Congressional Budget Office reported that as a result of a clerical error, $80 billion earmarked for national defense was accidentally sent to the Department of Education, furnishing schools with the necessary funds to buy new textbooks, offer more academic resources, […]16 years ago
Osama bin Laden’s sons call their lawyers
Omar bin Laden and his wife Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Osama bin Laden’s sons call their lawyers Osama bin Laden’s four adult sons have issued a statement: “We Omar Ossama Binladin, and my brothers … herewith demand an inquiry … as to why our father was not arrested and tried but summarily executed without […]16 years ago
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