New Haven Decision

The New Haven decision is a victory for equal rights under the law and a defeat for Sonia Sotomayor and Barack Obama, who foolishly nominated this race-conscious jurist for the Supreme Court. Give him enough time, and he will pack the court with such unaccomplished ideologues. Or is he smart enough to rethink this nomination and truly be a nonracial president?

File Footage

You know you need to lose weight when you are file footage for a news broadcast's from-the-neck-down obesity shots.

Extremism

With the economy continuing to shed jobs, with automakers declaring bankruptcy, and gasoline prices climbing, what is Team Obama's response? A carbon tax. (The Democratic-controlled House passed it yesterday.) This tax, of course, will make everything more expensive and will hit the poor and unemployed especially hard.

And for what? To possibly have a marginal effect on global warming (er, "climate change")? This is the very definition of environmental extremism: to be so wedded to a worldview without evidence and with little hope of a real payoff and still not care whom you hurt to address it.

Unhealthy Audacity

What will drive private businesses out of the insurance business, cost trillions, ration care, and still leave millions uninsured? If you answered "the Obama healthcare plan," you are right. But I call it "The Audacity of Dopes."

Stupid Sin

To call Gov. Mark Sanford's caper (saying he was hiking the Appalachian Trail while actually flying to Argentina for an extended tryst with his lover) sophomoric is an insult to sophomores. It reminds me of the incredible blindness of one Gov. Blago, who continued phoning people about dirty deals even though he knew the feds were investigating.

Some people think they will never get caught-until they are. Evangelist Billy Sunday once said, "Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever." What Sanford did was not only sinful; it was stupid to the nth degree. South Carolina doesn't need him running the state.

95 Percent

President Obama says he is "95 percent cured" of his smoking addiction. That's like being only 5 percent pregnant. You are or you aren't hooked to the cancer sticks, and Mr. Obama is. Aside from concern for his own health, the president needs to think of the country. After all, remember who's waiting in the wings: Vice President Hoofinmouth.

Phil, Meet Greg

I hate to say this about a nice guy whose wife has breast cancer, but it should be obvious by now that Phil Mickelson is the Greg Norman of his era: immensely talented, handsome, well-liked, and a horribly underachieving golfer who can be counted upon to choke during crunch time.

Iraq

When was the last time you heard about how badly it's going in Iraq? Probably when George Bush was in office.

Belong

When you belong, you don't need anyone to tell you.

Name, Rank, and Haircut Number

First, there was the "sleep number." Now there is the haircut number. When did they start numbering men's haircuts, and why didn't I get the tutorial? Used to be, the stylist (who was called a "barber") asked whether you wanted a "layered" or regular cut. Now, you're just a number in the assembly line, and if you don't know yours, the whole thing grinds to a halt. So, men, be sure you know your number. Your good looks depend on it.

Rules for Living

No. 25: Don't buy the last melon at Aldi.

DOMA and Dumber

The Obama Justice Department is defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act in court while moving to grant benefits to federal workers' homosexual partners. Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. (Unless with the latter act Obama is trying to mend fences with his radical base.) And my taxes should pay for gay partnerships exactly why?

Rules for Living

No. 12: If you get into trouble but belong to a great church, invest in a couple of boxes of "thank you" cards.

Firing

Firing people costs money, too.

Manly

Regarding the Letterman/Palin dispute, let's just say I find it interesting that this comedian has never figured out a way to really criticize the president (or, for that matter, his family). Yet he thinks it perfectly appropriate to drag Sarah Palin's 14-year-old daughter through the sexual mud.

What a man.

Cold Comfort

When President Obama sold the country on his $787 billion "stimulus" plan, he said the goal was to keep the jobless rate below 8 percent. It is now 9.4 percent and rising, meaning about 1.8 million more people than promised have lost their jobs since this plan was passed-including me. (Disclosure: I stand to benefit from the plan because my family's outrageously expensive COBRA health insurance will be subsidized by 65 percent.)

Meanwhile, household net worth dropped by $1.33 trillion in the first quarter. Home foreclosures are up 18 percent over a year ago.

I know Obama keeps saying his plan will "create or save" X number of jobs, but that's cold comfort to the millions of us "recently employed."

Magic?

After watching Orlando clank and choke its way to a Game 4 overtime loss at home to the L.A. Lakers last night, I'd be surprised if former NBA great Earvin Johnson didn't ask for his nickname back.

Two Wrongs

The Senate is gearing up to control smoking, a nasty and disgusting habit, even more than before. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) notes, rightly, that many young people become addicted before they are old enough to make responsible decisions concerning their health. Perhaps it's time to outlaw smoking, instead of taxing it to fund bigger government.

The Democrats are the same party, of course, that advocates an "anything goes" approach to sex and abortion for teens, without any parental oversight. So why is teen smoking morally evil while premarital sex (associated with pregnancy out of wedlock, venereal disease, emotional devastation, poverty) is morally neutral?

Sick

Anyone who wants government-run healthcare ought to apply for unemployment first. It'll make you sick.

Journalists

Headline: "North Korea sentences two journalists to 12 years of labor."

Well, at least they're working.

Boldness

Being jobless is the worst time to shrink into a corner. For the unemployed, necessity is the mother of boldness.

D-Day and Today

Yesterday my family attended events at Cantigny Park near Chicago commemorating the 65th anniversary of D-Day. It seemed as if hundreds of WW II vets in wheelchairs and service hats were there as guests of honor. And some current, young servicemen, from the First Division of Fort Riley, Kansas, via Iraq, were also in attendance, showing off Black Hawk, Chinook, and Kiowa helicopters. My hat is off to both groups. Thank you for your service, then and now.

Golfers' Dilemma

What do professional golfers do on vacation? Go to the office?

Muslim Math

This week Barack Hussein Obama (that's right, we have received permission to use his middle name) said that "if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world." While that statement is patently false (we'd be somewhere between the 34th and 45th largest), it's just a bit unnerving to see his embrace of Islam when just weeks ago he was telling Muslim leaders that the U.S. is not a Christian country or a Jewish country (when in fact if you took the populations of these groups separately the U.S. would probably be both the top Christian country and the second most populous Jewish nation). I hate to quibble about numbers, but our president brought it up.

Hard Tasks

Don't always choose the easy task, or you will one day be unprepared when you have no choice but to do the hard task.

Life Philosophy

Faith, not fear.

Negativity

When looking for work, avoid all negativity. There'll be plenty of time for that later-after you get the job.