OP-ED BY FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER – I had a discussion with my daughter, Amy, the other day, and I asked her to name the stingiest people on earth. Without any hesitation, she said, “the Americans.”

Amy is right.  Even though the World Giving Index for 2011 shows that Americans are the most generous people on earth, and even though the people I love most, the Iranians, rank 92nd, this is an issue that should not be discussed by citing things like “facts”; feelings matter much more. Amy’s feeling, and mine, is that Americans are stingy.

Proof of this is found in the Occupy Movement. That Movement was relatively successful, even though no one knew what it stood for, its encampments bred sexual assault, and it didn’t accomplish anything. That aside, it captured the feeling of the nation that people with money are no good.

Every night before I go to bed, I gaze upon my Nobel Peace Prize and think to myself, “How awful the Americans are!”

My guess is that President Obama agrees with Amy and me. And remember, if you disagree with President Obama on this issue, or any other, you are a racist.



OP-ED BY REV. NOAH SWAYNE – At the end of June this year, scientists will add an extra second to atomic clocks around the world, a tweak intended to make up for changes in the earth’s rotation.

Just think of it!  A second we otherwise wouldn’t have!  What a golden opportunity to do something good! 

Spend it by spreading love to your family and friends. Spend it by healing long-festering wounds with your enemies. Spend it by calling someone you haven’t spoken with in a long time. And if you have any time left, help a neighbor paint his house, or knit a sweater for your cranky aunt! 

In short, MAKE LEAP SECOND COUNT — it’s a second we otherwise wouldn’t have!



PITTSBURGH – Police say that a naked, winged male youth known only as “Cupid” is a person of interest in a series of bow and arrow attacks throughout the tri-state area.

The suspect’s modus operandi is to fire tiny arrows into the hearts of couples out on a date. Police say the arrows contain a date rape drug that renders victims susceptible to romantic encounters.

Women’s groups staged a candlelight vigil in the city’s South Side last night to express outrage that the suspect is still at large.

Samuel Blatchford, 74, of Blawnox, said: “By letting him on the loose, we’re sending a message that it’s OK for anybody to go around spreading love among defenseless citizens. No one is safe!”


EDITORIAL – Singer Whitney Houston’s death in a Beverly Hilton bathtub is merely the latest in a long line of tragedies associated with that unspeakable deathtrap.

It was in a bathtub in 1793 where radical journalist Jean-Paul Marat was famously murdered by Charlotte Corday. That’s the crime that started the “bloods ‘n suds” craze.

Who can forget Marion Crane, the doomed adulterous leading lady in “Pyscho”?  Marion was doing just fine, thank you very much, until auter Alfred Hitchcock sent her into the bathtub.

Gangster Frankie “Five Angels” Pentangeli of “Godfather Part 2″ fame, above, was supposedly in a “safe” place – the witness protection plan — when he died, but no one is “safe” so long as there’s a bathtub around.

And we could go on and on and on. The point is obvious: tubs are bad. Tubs kill. Tubs need to be stopped up.

Ban bathtubs, before it’s too late!


Little town averages one murder per week.


“I’ll put my Swiss Guard against Obama’s Navy Seals any day of the week, notwithstanding the ostrich feathers in the helmets.”  — Pope Benedict







Agency reverses self, will fund Planned Parenthood


INDIANAPOLIS - Scientists say that the tragic death of a sports writer at this morning’s pre-Super Bowl press conference was caused by the fact that the Patriot’s coach, Bill Belichick, long regarded as a genius, has mutated into a “being of pure intellect.”

Belichick strode into a packed media room at 10:15 and glowered at reporters beneath his massive cerebrum for what seemed an eternity.  The coach refused to respond to any questions but finally raised his right hand, revealing that it now sports six fingers, and announced, “Your ignorance makes me ill and angry.”

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PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA – Groundhog Day revelers waiting to learn if Punxsutawney Phil would see his shadow were shocked yesterday morning when the famous rodent’s handlers reached into his burrow and pulled out Al Gore instead.

Mr. Gore, who declared Phil’s prognostications “obsolete,” promptly announced that he could see his shadow, and that “there will only be six more weeks of winter — ever.”


YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK – A bear who mauled a woman to death arranged the scene to make it look like she was killed by her boyfriend, police said.

The bear attacked the woman, Rosacea Lugosi, 23, while she and her boyfriend, Noah Swayne, 26, were camping last Friday.  Mr. Swayne was off hiking when the bear pounced on Ms. Lugosi. Police say the bear then grabbed Ms. Lugosi’s wallet and took all her cash. 

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