Matt Towery from Creators Syndicate

Americans Are Against the Health Care Proposal for 07/16/2009

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

First, thank you to the hundreds of readers from across the nation who took the time to personally write me about my recent column comparing the memorial for Michael Jackson to those of seven soldiers killed in Afghanistan just days earlier. Very few took shots at Jackson — nor did I — but they understood my point in saying that men and women who die for our country are heroes, too. ...

Updated: Thu Jul 16, 2009

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Chaos for 07/23/2009

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama finds himself where he likely never expected — surrounded by chaos. Some of it is admittedly the result of the Bush years, when banks, lenders, financial institutions, Wall Street and a host of others ran our economy slap into the ground. Then the lot of them got rescued. And now one blue-chip "investment banking firm" — which h ...

Updated: Thu Jul 23, 2009

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Could Hillary Be Obama's RFK? for 07/30/2009

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Several weeks ago, the press was full of stories that pointed out Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's absence from important international confabs. Even the most "mainstream" of publications suggested that America's real foreign policy was being forged from the same epicenter as healthcare reform, energy policy and virtually every other major initiative — the White House.

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Updated: Thu Jul 30, 2009

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Could Hillary Be Obama's RFK? for 07/30/2009

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

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Updated: Thu Jul 30, 2009

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Is Significant Drop In African-American Support In Obama's Future? for 08/06/2009

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It's just one state. But it's one of the centers of African-American culture and influence in the nation. Atlanta, Georgia, with nearly six million residents in its metro area, is home to hundreds of top black musicians and other entertainers, civil rights leaders and business entrepreneurs. Janet Jackson, Usher, Tyler Perry and Andrew Young are just a handful of the many big names that can be ...

Updated: Thu Aug 06, 2009

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Vulnerable Crist May Be GOP's Test Case for 08/13/2009

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Several months back, I suggested that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was the perfect moderate politician to help bring independent voters back to the Republican Party. Crist had just announced his plans to skip a second term as governor and instead seek the U.S. Senate seat held by the retiring Mel Martinez.

In that race next year, Crist is being challenged in the ...

Updated: Thu Aug 13, 2009

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February Prediction Proves True in August: Obama Is New Jimmy Carter for 08/21/2009

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It's as simple as this: Just as semi-rural Georgia politics of the mid-1970s couldn't be imposed on the Washington establishment, Chicago-style, brute-force politics doesn't work, either. Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress started digging a hole when they decided to force-feed massive health care reform on the American people in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis. And with ev ...

Updated: Fri Aug 21, 2009

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British Release True Savage While Continuing to Ban "Savage" Talk Show Host for 08/27/2009

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

I won't go into it again about my years as a student in England and how much I love that country and the university where I received my degree. It is irrelevant to the "Alice in Wonderland" situation that just keeps getting more bizarre — Britain's banning of American conservative talk radio host Michael Savage from entering their country. Now, it looks like the British governme ...

Updated: Thu Aug 27, 2009

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Small State Senate Race in Florida May Explain Entire Future of National GOP for 09/03/2009

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It has been my contention for the past decade that when it comes to politics, as Florida goes, so goes the nation.

Think about the 2008 presidential election. First, following the CNN-YouTube debate, the last major Republican debate to be held before the Iowa caucus, our firm polled Floridians for the Florida Chamber of Commerce. We asked respondents who won the debate. A then-unknown ca ...

Updated: Thu Sep 03, 2009

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Memo to President Obama: Why You Are Losing Public Support for 09/10/2009

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It's easy to attack a leader. And yet President Obama says he wants input from Republicans. When I was politically active, including nationally, I was heavily involved on the GOP side of things. So here's a constructive memorandum to the president. It's based on both experience and on some of the nonpartisan polls our firm conducts.

It's intended to explore the reasons Obama's approval r ...

Updated: Thu Sep 10, 2009

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Jimmy Carter's Ill-Advised Effort to Atone for 09/17/2009

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Oh, the irony that former President Jimmy Carter has claimed big headlines by saying that South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst against Barack Obama during the president's speech last week was racially motivated.

The irony stems partly from the timing of all this: Just days after the incident, Carter's former press secretary Jody Powell died. Perhaps more than an ...

Updated: Thu Sep 17, 2009

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GOP Return to Power Could Be Swift for 09/24/2009

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The D.C. pundits think they have it nailed. Sure President Obama and the Democrats have slipped from their mighty post-election high approval ratings. But the Republicans have no message and no candidates, and are a party that has allowed itself to become marginalized because of an over-reliance on the support of Southern whites.

Wrong.

For starters, no Republican has a prayer of ...

Updated: Thu Sep 24, 2009

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When Tom DeLay is Dancing, You Know the World is in Trouble for 10/01/2009

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It's my genuine belief that when the ball in Times Square dropped and displayed the year "2000" nine years ago, something must have occurred to transform our nation and the world into a permanent version of "Alice in Wonderland."

Early in the decade, America sustained an unimaginably devastating attack on our soil, and yet the media refuse to do more than mention in s ...

Updated: Thu Oct 01, 2009

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A Conservative "Stimulus" That Actually Worked for 10/08/2009

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It's rare when a liberal Democratic U.S. senator like New York's Chuck Schumer and a conservative like Sen. John Cornyn of Texas can agree on any piece of major legislation, much less on national television. But this last week both agreed that legislation sponsored earlier this year by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., was sound stuff. The law is designed to provide tax credits for first-time homebuy ...

Updated: Thu Oct 08, 2009

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Swing State Senators Face Health Care Reform Threat -- Losing Next Election for 10/15/2009

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

By and large, the pundit class has it that momentum now favors passage of a national health care program. There's a fly in the ointment, however. Too many of the Senate Democrats needed to pass such legislation hail from states where even if the concept of health care reform is tepidly endorsed by the people, that support breaks down when ways of actually paying for reform are considered. So ul ...

Updated: Thu Oct 15, 2009

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Hit Delete ... and Accept Your Prize for 10/22/2009

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

I almost had this column finished. Then I hit delete.

Why? Because I'm tired of hearing and talking and writing about congressional debates, outlandish "Balloon Boy" stunts" or the fallout from silly TV shows like "Jon and Kate Plus Eight." I'm sick of listening to how Barack Obama doesn't have a birth certificate. I wince at a White House that declares an entire ...

Updated: Thu Oct 22, 2009

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Any Political Machine Can Come to an End for 10/29/2009

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

ATLANTA — An upcoming municipal election may reveal some clues about the drift of American politics, and about the nature of politics itself.

Political machines thrive, only to die one day. Witness what's happening in Atlanta. Based on both our own InsiderAdvantage surveys, and on a poll by the highly regarded SurveyUSA, it appears that one of America's most powerful municipal poli ...

Updated: Thu Oct 29, 2009

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Mr. Boortz's Opus: Why Talk Radio Really Matters for 11/05/2009

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Back in the '90s, an admittedly sappy movie was made for less than $7 million, but it reaped over $80 million at the box office. "Mr. Holland's Opus" starred Richard Dreyfuss as a high school music teacher who tenaciously plodded along the daily grind of teaching music. All the while, he was privately composing his own "An American Symphony," apparently never to be performed ...

Updated: Thu Nov 05, 2009

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Health Care Bill Important to Everyone but the American Public for 11/12/2009

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

How out of touch are they in the Washington, D.C., "bubble," in which Congress and the media live?

Recently, a national poll was touted in the national news, with a typical headline reading something like, "Public Supports Public Option" for health care legislation. Big news, right? But the actual question asked if poll respondents preferred a plan "that includes ...

Updated: Thu Nov 12, 2009

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"With Six You Get Eggroll" for 11/19/2009

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

In the late 1960s, actress Doris Day filmed her last major motion picture. It was a comedy about the chaos that ensues when a widow and widower marry, forcing two families and two sets of friends to converge.

The film's title, "With Six You Get Eggroll," probably wouldn't make it past the mandarins of political correctness these days, but back then it was considered all in good ...

Updated: Thu Nov 19, 2009

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