Joseph Curl

CURL: Obama’s tin ear extends to sensibility

OK, forget No. 3. And who knows about No. 1, although he does he does have Lil Wayne on his iPod (and who even still has an iPod?). But President Obama clearly suffers from definition No. 2.

December 4, 2011

CURL: Does Obama really want to win?

"Over the last decade, we became a country that relied too much on what we bought and consumed."

November 27, 2011

CURL: Obama’s growing disdain for American worker

They say that politics stops at the water's edge, but apparently, that doesn't apply to President Obama, as so many things apparently don't.

November 20, 2011

CURL: Politico and the Cain story that wasn’t

The story was explosive: "Exclusive: Herman Cain Accused by two women of inappropriate behavior," the headline blared.

November 6, 2011

CURL: The very angry first lady Michelle Obama

Michelle's back, and she's madder than ever. She was already pretty angry, seemingly unhappy with just about everything. As her husband wrapped up the Democratic nomination in 2008, she let fly her real feelings: "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country." A few months into her job as first lady, her French counterpart asked how she liked the gig: "Don't ask!" she reportedly spat. "It's hell. I can't stand it!"

October 30, 2011

CURL: Obama Doctrine: With us, or we’ll whack you

The Bush Doctrine, articulated by George W. Bush after terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the Sept. 11 attacks, was simple: "We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," he said on Sept. 20, 2001.

October 23, 2011

CURL: Obama’s stumbling, bumbling 1-term presidency

One day soon, someone will write a book titled "The Stumbling, Bumbling, One-Term Presidency of Barack Hussein Obama." It will be a best-seller - off the nonfiction shelf, of course.

October 16, 2011

CURL: Obama to protesters: Do as I say, not as I do

The first American generation to live a life of luxury, with scads of idle time to while away lounging and thinking, often half-stoned, was mine.

October 9, 2011

CURL: The jobs plan that couldn’t

President Obama's claim that everything in his American Jobs Act "will be paid for" was — and is — a flat-out lie, and he knows it.

October 2, 2011

CURL: Cain’s ‘9-9-9’ tax plan is fairer share

Leave it to a pizza guy to come up with the $9.99 deal. Wait, sorry, that's the 9-9-9 deal. And former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain has made the proposal the centerpiece of his 2012 campaign for president.

September 25, 2011

CURL: Econ 101 for dummies

Here is the situation the United States is in right now: Tax revenue 2011: $2,170,000,000,000 (that's trillion)

September 18, 2011

CURL: For Obama, ‘pass the bill’ is more like pass the buck

Any pretense that President Obama planned to deliver a bipartisan call to action on jobs flew out the window the second he entered the House floor on Thursday evening.

September 11, 2011

CURL: Obama’s speech will save civilization

How lucky are we, people? We live in a Golden Age — Netflix, iPads, those little plastic wands that let you pick up a tennis ball covered with dog slobber without using your hands. We have NyQuil and DayQuil, reddit.com, Brew-Thrus, and that little beeper thing that lets you find your keys wherever they are.

September 4, 2011

CURL: Why so glum, Michelle?

Man, how miserable is Michelle Obama? About 2½ years into her ceremonial stint as first lady, Mrs. Obama seems to have had quite enough of the gig.

August 28, 2011

CURL: Taking vacation from Obama recession

Unemployment is at 9.1 percent. Economic growth is anemic. America's credit rating has been downgraded for the first time in history. The stock market hits new lows almost every day. And where is President Obama?

August 21, 2011

CURL: Maybe Iowa straw poll not so pointless after all

No, the Ames Straw Poll doesn't mean much. But on the other hand, a Bachmann win there does mean something.

August 14, 2011

CURL: ‘Re-elect Obama — more debt than all 43 presidents before him’

President Obama's policies are, it can also be said at long last, a dismal failure. He has been in office for 30 months, so his agenda, with the help of a sympathetic Senate, has been, for the most part, enacted. And things have gotten worse.

August 7, 2011

CURL: The tea party IS the third party

The times they are a-changin'. There's a new power force in Washington, and it's running the show right now, deciding the very fate of the nation.

July 31, 2011

CURL: Is Obama a pathological liar?

In the weird world that is Washington, men and women say things daily, hourly, even minutely, that they know deep down are simply not true. Inside the Beltway, we all call those utterances "rhetoric." But across the rest of the country, plain ol' folk call 'em lies.

July 24, 2011

CURL: Who says tax cuts kill jobs? Our history sure doesn’t

A statement President Obama made halfway through his news conference last week was so unfathomable, so utterly incomprehensible, that befuddled White House stenographers simply gave up and tacked a "[sic]" next to it.

July 17, 2011