Dear Readers: I have received numerous emails this week seeking comments on a variety of current topics and all very important. Unfortunately, the media has once again focused its attention on burning issues such as Chris Christie's bridge problems and Justin Bieber's arrest in Miami. So in case you missed it, here are some stories that might be just a little bit more important than the arrest of an immature Canadian punk in a high-powered rental car.

— Liberal and tolerant New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tells radio interviewer that "extreme conservatives" are not welcome in New York. "If they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York," Cuomo said in the interview.

Let me make sure I understand this, by the governor's own definition, if you're pro-gun, pro-traditional marriage and pro-life, Gov. Cuomo considers you extreme and therefore not welcome in the state of New York. Sounds like the makings a of a fantastic tourism ad for the Empire State.

To be fair, the governor's office backtracked on those initial remarks and said that Cuomo was only referring to politicians who are extreme conservatives. Now let me make sure I understand the governor's clarification. If you have the aforementioned views, you can still live in New York, you just can't have any political representation. Well that certainly makes Cuomo's remarks more palatable.

— Madonna uses the N-word when referring to her son in an Instagram post. Southern celebrity chef Paula Deen was thoroughly roasted for months and lost millions of dollars in endorsements because she used the N-word years ago, while Madonna will be hailed as a sympathetic creative genius. There's no shame in Media Land when it comes to double standards.

— Concerning the nuclear weapons deal, Iran claims the country did not agree to dismantle anything. During an interview with CNN, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif challenged, "If you find a single word that even closely resembles dismantling or could be defined as dismantling in the entire text, then I would take back my comment."

Of course the Obama administration has been hailing this deal with Iran as historic while intimating that this will put an end to Iran's nuclear weapon's aspirations. It's a sad day when I believe the leaders of Iran over the president of the United States and his Secretary of State.

Speaking of deals, here's mine. The current sanctions against Iran will remain in place but intensify each month until Iran's nuclear weapons program is completely destroyed, uh, I mean dismantled and verified. That was easy.

— NAACP leader compares Republican Senator Tim Scott to a dummy for the Tea Party ventriloquist. Doesn't NAACP stand for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? And isn't Sen. Scott black? And hasn't Tim Scott advanced pretty far in life? So why in the world would the Reverend William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP make such vitriolic and inflammatory remarks against a successful black man? Maybe it's because today's NAACP only truly represents black people that are Democrats.

— In an interview with The New Yorker, President Obama, referring to pot, claims, "I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol." Was that comment from the president or Cheech and Chong? President Obama has admitted that he smoked a lot of weed during his young adult life, and to his credit, he also said "smoking marijuana is a bad idea, a waste of time, not very healthy." If that's the case, then why did he and Nancy Pelosi smoke so much of it while writing the Affordable Care Act? That last line might have been a tad bit tacky, but how else can you explain the disaster called Obamacare?

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