A.J. DiCintio column
A.J. DiCintio posts regularly at RenewAmerica and YourNews.com. He first exercised his polemical skills arguing with friends on the street corners of the working class neighborhood where he grew up. Retired from teaching, he now applies those skills, somewhat honed and polished by experience, to social/political affairs.
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February 16, 2014
For young people, especially.
Want to get real about political reality?
If "yes," understand that none of us ever will unless we overcome the urges which . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 23, 2013
Barbara Walters, if not the inventor of the pop interview, certainly the cotton candy genre's most well-known practitioner, recently said this about Barack . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 8, 2013
Millennials may have missed it because for the umpteenth time they were re-writing the resume that really isn't the reason they haven't established themselves . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 25, 2013
Regarding humanity's earthly existence, the wise Ben Franklin warned, "He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Barack Obama, however, has never put much . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 17, 2013
Yes, Mr. President, the title alludes to Sir Walter Scott's "Oh, what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive."
And, yes, the web you've . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 10, 2013
Every person can offer anecdotes attesting to the reality that language creates an enormous amount of confusion in a child's mind, owing to its limitations . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 27, 2013
A current internet search for "Obama glitch" returns 49 million hits, a reality that, combined with the president's use of "kinks" to describe the cause of the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 6, 2013
Prior to his recent drop in the polls, President Obama received, on average, just under a 50% job approval rating, with perhaps half of those supporters . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 22, 2013
No matter how profound the issues or scandals, the current administration's MO has been to avoid substance in favor of the corrupt politics of spin and ignore, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 8, 2013
In a recent CNN op-ed, Newt Gingrich criticized the president's idea of launching "a few missiles at Syria" as a "meaningless public relations use of military . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 12, 2013
Search the net for "Chris Christie hot" and you'll be bombarded with so many hits that to read them all you'd have to live longer than Methuselah, spending . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 3, 2013
Regarding the nominee for next Chair of the Federal Reserve, it appears that Larry Summers' stock is rising for all the excruciatingly wrong reasons, a reality . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 27, 2013
Emma Lazarus' sonnet "The New Colossus" contains the following comments about the iconic statue designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and given to the United . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 21, 2013
Every person who cares about defending the Bill of Rights will acknowledge the profound relationship that exists between Washington's warning regarding "that . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 14, 2013
When life presents open-minded, innovative folks with lemons, they make a satisfying lemonade, a reality that explains why we are so often confronted by the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 1, 2013
Putting the crucial third leg on the imaginary support that the failed, pathetic salesman Willy Loman believed would allow him to ride successfully through life . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 23, 2013
Accepting the Nobel Prize in December, 1950, William Faulkner urged aspiring authors of serious fiction to reject a fearful obsession with the question "when . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 2, 2013
Speaking on CNN about the IRS scandal, Newt Gingrich urged Republicans to grasp it as "a major educational opportunity" to awaken the nation to the reality . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 26, 2013
The White House has spoken, making it undeniably true that President Obama considers "irrelevant" the multitude of facts sought by an ever increasing number of . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 18, 2013
On September 12, 2012, the American public awakened to news about the attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, which included the Obama administration's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 12, 2013
In a NYT article about the latest cinema version of The Great Gatsby, Charles McGrath fills us in regarding a particularly vexing problem faced by every writer . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 6, 2013
"Fuss" fits the bill, and so does "commotion." But to take advantage of an opportunity to use a fantastic Yiddish term, I'll say it this way:
Betraying their . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 27, 2013
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men
Gang aft agley [often go awry],
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain
For promised joy! – Robert Burns
. . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 21, 2013
In the last few years, a number of news items have reported that upon hearing a speaker (in one case, Bill Clinton) cite statistics suggesting that by 2040, the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 14, 2013
Historically, the Republican Party Establishment has behaved at its worst when it has licked the boots of crony capitalists who love nothing more than using the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 7, 2013
During the campaign, a deeply earnest Barack Obama took advantage of every possible opportunity to tell voters he absolutely, positively can't abide the idea . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 24, 2013
Like far too many ostensibly tough-minded journalists of the past hundred years, I.F. Stone could not or would not admit the truth about Stalinist communism, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 17, 2013
Last week I opined that in his reaction to the "sequester" which he repeatedly blames on Republicans but, as Bob Woodward has reported, he proposed for the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 10, 2013
In July of 2008, Barack Obama, the staggeringly inexperienced candidate who hadn't yet received the Democratic presidential nomination, traveled to Berlin, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 24, 2013
After the remarkably talented and accomplished Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast, the WSJ . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 17, 2013
When considering how to satirize England's policies that for centuries condemned most of Ireland's people to abject poverty, Jonathan Swift could think of no . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 9, 2013
It's a sad reality, but something has caused the mind of Colin Powell to deteriorate to the extent that the man who spent an admirable life in the ancient, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 3, 2013
In reacting to "Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm" (dailybeast.com/newsweek), a number of liberal commentators have assaulted not just the essay but author David . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 26, 2013
Responding to the dogmatic commitment to collectivism which permeated Barack Obama's inaugural address, David Brooks (NYT) makes two insightful points that will . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 19, 2013
You aren't likely to hear it from the elite media, but one of the most important observations to be made about the current gun debate is that tens of millions . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 13, 2013
Just as it takes two to tango, it takes two for a con to succeed, an ancient truth whose famous nineteenth century American iteration Herman Melville . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 5, 2013
Disgusted with the "fiscal cliff" compromise, Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX), according to the AP, said this: "I'm embarrassed for this generation. Future . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 22, 2012
As greetings of "Merry Christmas" resound throughout the land, we would do well to read (or read again) the reflections on the season of The Great Gatsby's Nick . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 9, 2012
Before Warren Buffett's recent op-ed "A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy" (NYT), it was reasonable to regard the political "Oracle of Omaha" as nothing more than a . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 6, 2012
How would you govern if you were president?
Would you insist that an $800 billion stimulus bill be spent innovatively on a major national job producing . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 5, 2012
How would you govern if you were president?
Would you insist that an $800 billion stimulus bill innovatively be spent on a major national job producing . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 3, 2012
Experts who study voter turnout estimate that in 2008 tens of millions of traditionalist Americans failed to vote, including a whopping 17 million Evangelicals, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 27, 2012
She may get to the polling place herself. She may be taken there. Or she may apply for an absentee ballot. But however she does it, Granma is unwaveringly . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 21, 2012
Displaying the same urgency of last time around, Barack Obama is asking Ohio's voters for their support so that he can continue to move "forward" regarding his . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 13, 2012
In August, a Rasmussen poll found that a landslide majority of likely voters (59%) believed media bias on behalf of Barack Obama's reelection efforts would . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 7, 2012
Instead of maintaining a hard eye and sharp focus on reforms necessary to get the private sector growing and producing good jobs, Barack Obama has spent his . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 1, 2012
With the imprimatur, "I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this ad," the television spot running fast and loose in swing states features a very serious Bill Clinton . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 22, 2012
If you're like me, you may well have reacted to last week's murderous attacks by shouting something like the following, intoning the word "this" and the names . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 16, 2012
With the election season in full swing, voters should do some serious thinking about the lyric "I been down so long it seem like up to me" uttered by the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 9, 2012
The NYT's Roger Cohen isn't a conservative; but to his credit, the insightful commentator separated himself from the media's groveling liberal cheerleaders when . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 2, 2012
Four years ago Barack Obama promised us a program of hope and change to reverse the economic decline that is ravaging the dreams we have not just for ourselves . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 26, 2012
As the past three and a half years have revealed, devotees of the Chicago Machine are meticulously trained to pervert language with insidious vagueness aimed at . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 20, 2012
One of history's most important lessons teaches that when cries of "hard times" resound through a nation, politicians afflicted by the dictatorial impulse . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 12, 2012
As you most likely have seen or heard, Barack Obama recently flew to Connecticut to raise big bucks at the lavish Connecticut waterfront home of Hollywood big . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 3, 2012
In another instance of his honest, insightful "Thoughts from the Frontline," John Mauldin (mauldineconomics.com) opened his post last week by quoting the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 22, 2012
Biff: He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.
Charley: He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine... A salesman's got to dream, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 15, 2012
In 1946, George Orwell wrote "Politics and the English Language" to argue for clear, precise, honest Plain English as an antidote for "ugly, inaccurate" . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 8, 2012
It's no wonder that in 2008 the American public handed Barack Obama a 53%-46% win over John Cain.
After all, in addition to their anger and worry over the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 2, 2012
Like every great writer, Herman Melville wrote with unremitting honesty about the verities surrounding human nature and human experience, his insights . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 24, 2012
After Bernard Goldberg enlightened the nation with sordid details regarding the slobbering love affair the elite media conducted with Barack Obama during the 20 . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 17, 2012
As events in Wisconsin have greatly helped the country understand, retirement promises made to public employees are so lacking in actuarial soundness that . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 10, 2012
You won't hear it from the Republican or Democratic Establishments, but the nation's health continues to be threatened by a banking problem that began in 1999 . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 2, 2012
When, this week, President Obama committed the gaffe of referring to "a Polish death camp" instead of a "Nazi death camp," some in the elite media reported that . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 27, 2012
In a recent column, David Brooks (NYT) condemns President Obama for his attacks on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital, pointing out the crucially important role . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 20, 2012
This essay examines a few pernicious sixties lies and reveals how, especially for young people, ideas expressed and examples set by America's 19th century . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 13, 2012
With its emphasis upon individualism, idealism, communing with nature, and experimentation in the arts, all of which are particularly attractive to youth, the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 6, 2012
As shocked Americans of varied political opinions scoured their vocabularies to find the word best expressing their reaction to Barack Obama's obscene . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 29, 2012
As critically important as it is to the nation's well-being, the judiciary will not join the economy, jobs, Obamacare, and Medicare to rank among the general . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 22, 2012
Despite the propaganda issued by the president and his liberal minions, the stubborn things called facts show that the economic policies advanced by Captain . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 16, 2012
As the campaign heats up, Barack Obama is ramping up his usual tactic of speaking in vacuous generalities, especially when he asserts that the notion of big . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 8, 2012
When I was a teenager, I often fulfilled my obligation to get to church on Good Friday by walking a few blocks to the Polish Catholic Church, thereby solving . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 31, 2012
With oral arguments completed, the Supreme Court is set to issue a decision on the constitutionality of "Obamacare," whose political and fiscal realities, by . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 25, 2012
The truth about electric cars is this: Every child who has mastered simple addition and spent a minute gathering information from an energy website is capable . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 18, 2012
If there's one thing to say about European style "social democracy" it's that in its early stages it looks so beautiful and easy that politicians who peddle . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 10, 2012
Who can forget the last time around, when a perfect political storm allowed candidate Barack Obama to get away with it.
The "it" is, of course, the most . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 4, 2012
In a recent issue of frontlinethoughts.com, John Mauldin's readers distinguished themselves so well with their comments about tax reform that their example . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 26, 2012
Last week I wrote about how the record shows that Barack Obama and the rest of the Democratic Party's power structure are incorrigibly devoted to the liberal . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 19, 2012
A specter is haunting the United States. . . the specter of devastating debt. All the powers of the old liberal order have entered into an unholy alliance to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 11, 2012
Our rash faults make trivial price of serious things we have/Not knowing them until we know their grave. . . Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well.
How true . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 4, 2012
From his speeches, statements, and recent State of the Union address, it's clear that regarding his record and bid for reelection, Barack Obama plans to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 29, 2012
"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame". . . . Oscar Wilde
A friend once told me he couldn't watch a sporting event without being . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 22, 2012
. . . Ex-candidate Rick Perry shoots his campaign in both feet with a stunning gaffe regarding the critically important issue of cutting fat, waste, and power . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 15, 2012
As they do with respect to their entire ideology, leftist elites who have created unsustainable "social democracies" in Western Europe and the U.S. regularly . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 8, 2012
A recent news item reporting that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is prowling about the nation looking for a company to sue over the apparently . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 31, 2011
In a recent blog, investment strategist Ed Yardeni (yardeni.com) referred to Gallup Poll results showing that landslide numbers of the U.S. public (64%) regard . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 17, 2011
With the Republican presidential primary currently a contest between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, many conservatives are voicing concerns about both . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 11, 2011
In addition to documents that set forth the structure and commented upon the nature of a republic that has made the United States the freest, most prosperous . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 4, 2011
When Oregon's Governor John Kitzhaber recently granted a twice-convicted murderer a "temporary reprieve" from the death penalty (i.e. for the duration of the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 19, 2011
Mitt Romney likes to say, "Washington is broken," and investment strategist Shah Gilani of moneymorning.com, "The markets are broken."
Both statements, of . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 12, 2011
Whatever disagreements people may have with Pat Buchanan, this observation about the man cannot be denied: He's the most prominent national political figure . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 30, 2011
Liberals lecture us ad nauseam about the admirable sophistication of the European public.
But the opposite is true, a reality exemplified best by the fact . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 22, 2011
Ever since the madly arrogant Karl Marx and the psychopaths who implemented the ideas of his Manifesto dinned humanity's ears with harangues about the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 15, 2011
Although putting together a complete picture of any individual requires horrendous amounts of work, the task is hugely more daunting with respect to Barack . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 9, 2011
The first thing to say about the topic of politics and today's economy is that instead of educating the public about the nation's fundamental economic problems, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 1, 2011
Precisely because the Tea Party represents the most credible threat to the nation's corrupt status quo, we ought not be surprised it is constantly attacked with . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 24, 2011
Ideologues on the left are fond of attributing Obama's political free fall to his behaving like an "overintellectualized professor" who, having failed to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 17, 2011
It must have been when Bohr, Planck, Heisenberg, Pauli, et al. made his quest to explain everything about the physical universe infinitely more maddening that . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 10, 2011
Recently, Bill O'Reilly closed a Factor segment by repeating his support for the TARP program, which, he asserted, was a necessary action that not only saved . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 3, 2011
Despisers of judicial activism — whether it is practiced by conservatives or liberals — have plenty of cases to choose from when they wish to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 14, 2011
Common sense folks wouldn't have been so foolish to predict exactly when it would happen, but they have long known Reality would one day begin exploding the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 6, 2011
After the debt ceiling deal was done, Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Doyle (a Democrat and thus a supposed exemplar of perfectly reasonable thinking and . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 31, 2011
People who believe the best of all possible worlds is characterized by an elitist-directed, enormously powerful central government inevitably make a religion of . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 23, 2011
The more I see what's going on in Washington these days, the more I agree with Charles Krauthammer and Mike Huckabee, both of whom argue that in exchange for . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 16, 2011
Forget a free lunch or two — they think they are entitled to live cradle to the grave from the sweat of other people's brows. In fact, their sense of . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 9, 2011
When he wrote about a "slobbering love affair" regarding candidate Barack Obama, Bernard Goldberg limited himself to the torrid drooling exhibited by members of . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 2, 2011
Like the other Founders, Ben Franklin was no Pollyanna when it came to acknowledging the realities of human nature and conforming his ideas to them.
That's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 26, 2011
The great number of presidential elections are decided by the state of the economy, a reality of American political life illustrated by these winners, Johnson ' . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 19, 2011
Busy living their lives, most people don't have time to memorize every last name of every last product hawked by the modern financial industry.
Therefore, I . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 11, 2011
Recently, I came upon John J. Miller on C-SPAN, author of "The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football," discussing the attempt by arrogant, dictatorial . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 4, 2011
From the moment he announced his candidacy for the presidency, Barack Obama has continually expended an enormous amount of high sounding but childishly vacuous . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 28, 2011
Barack Obama has made it clear that with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, he has rejected the traditional role of the American president as discreet . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 21, 2011
Although the political news these days is fixated on the coming presidential election, folks who understand the realities of our system of government are . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 14, 2011
The Labor Department's April jobs report contains figures showing that applications for unemployment benefits jumped to an eight month high while the private . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 7, 2011
Polling has made it inarguable that millions who bought candidate Barack Obama's new age makeover cream now realize they were snookered by a Chicago Machine . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 30, 2011
The controversy over the president's birthplace may finally be settled. But that news doesn't in the least diminish the importance of Benjamin Shapiro's "About . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 16, 2011
A recent AP article examines charges of inappropriate conduct by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who works part-time hearing federal appeals . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 9, 2011
John Stossel (Fox Business) recently directed some much needed sunlight on a wildly irrational aspect of human behavior when he pointed out that the death of a . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 2, 2011
Except for the 20% who self-identify as liberals, an increasingly angry, frustrated public perceived nothing but politics at its rotten worst when Senator . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 27, 2011
Barack Obama dithered indifferently while deciding whether or not to join the UN-approved, European-led attacks on Libyan government forces. More importantly, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 19, 2011
Whether it's name calling by contemptible true-believers or silence by expedient cowards, the Democratic reaction to Congressman Peter King for holding hearings . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 12, 2011
Solving the nation's energy problem requires extraordinary courage, vision, and common sense, a reality that explains why politicians (including presidents from . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 5, 2011
Yes, the title contains a double superlative, a horror according to current usage.
But sometimes a cut (as one was long ago) is so shockingly outrageous it's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 2, 2011
As a prelude to his commentary about the administration's response to the uprisings in the Arab world, Christopher Hitchens (Slate) asks, "Is Barack Obama . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 26, 2011
Coming on the heels of how the "stimulus" and healthcare "reform" bills were written and passed into law, last year's election revealed that huge numbers of . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 19, 2011
If there's anything we know about liberals it's this: They can't discuss anything without exalting themselves as moral and intellectual paragons while sliming . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 12, 2011
News coverage of the demonstrations in Egypt has put the liberal vision of "multiculturalism" on full display — thanks to the drivel spewed by dogmatic . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 18, 2010
Mitt Romney is fond of saying Washington is "broken," a concept with which the great majority of Americans agree heartily, even though they may prefer to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 11, 2010
It's amazing how so many political reporters and commentators write and talk a blue streak about a 2012 primary challenge to Barack Obama without offering a . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 4, 2010
This past October, researchers from UC San Diego and Harvard announced the discovery of a "liberal gene."
Specifically, the scientists found that persons who . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 27, 2010
How perceptive and prescient was Allan Bloom's 1987 Closing of the American Mind, a book that pulled back the curtain on liberal "intellects" whose minds are so . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 20, 2010
There is something rotten in the state of America:
. . . Accounting for inflation, wages earned by ordinary American families have been stagnant for the last . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 13, 2010
Although "the economy" was the overriding issue during this year's election, the controversy regarding fair trade vs. free trade surprisingly wasn't a big deal. . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 6, 2010
It may seem foolishly repetitive to point out that in reacting to Tuesday's election, liberals once again put the lie to their self-professed intellectuality.
. . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 31, 2010
After he was elected in 2000, closet neo-con George Bush and his inkless veto pen sat in the Oval Office for eight years, presiding over a national debt that . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 24, 2010
Leftists, whose number includes American liberals, are notorious for boasting they base their every act upon sweet reason.
But more and more, I'm given to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 16, 2010
During one of those sadly recurring times when the moon reflects a particularly intense form of its lunacy-inducing light, Newsweek editor Evan Thomas bent his . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 9, 2010
In a recent column (NYT)Thomas Friedman asserts that the U.S. is "in a state of incremental decline" as a result of the degeneration of its politics and federal . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 2, 2010
It has begun a few years before many of us expected, but the truth is that America has joined Western Europe in entering an era characterized by problems whose . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 25, 2010
You have to be a meticulously dedicated hermit not to know that invective-spewing Democratic leaders and other liberals find Tea Party attitudes about fiscal . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 18, 2010
For all their talk about being scientific and basing their thinking upon empirical facts, liberals most often respond to problems by invoking metaphysical . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 11, 2010
Within days after Barack Obama appointed him chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, a summa cum laude Chicago Machine grad, displayed his leftist bona fides for all the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 5, 2010
Ever since Karl Marx lied that he based his ideas upon science — for example, his "scientific socialism" — a defining characteristic of leftists has been an . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 20, 2010
The most important aspect of the irrefutable truth popularized by "Forrest Gump" is that it gives rise to countless corollaries. For example, without fearing an . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 14, 2010
For the election season that will kick off in earnest after Labor Day, the state of the economy is certain to be the most important factor affecting how voters . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 31, 2010
Pity the perverse loves.
Why?
Well, while most of us agree with our ancestors, who, for millennia, recognized them as roots of iniquity, liberals and . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 25, 2010
This is what passes for intellectuality at the NYT these days:
. . . the N.A.A.C.P. scratched an old wound this week when it called on the Tea Party to expel . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 17, 2010
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 14, 2010
Paul Krugman has had all the advantages.
For example, he's a Yale man — Thurston Howell III's opinion about Yalies notwithstanding because among its other . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 4, 2010
After a number of delegates to the Continental Congress signed the Declaration on July 2, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife that the day of the nation's birth . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 26, 2010
Every president should expect to be awakened with news that a volcano has blown a bit of hell into the sky, whether it's a volcano whose rumblings and foul . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 19, 2010
Americans who consider themselves Tea Party "members" or who find themselves in agreement with the Tea Party message have involved themselves in public affairs . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 12, 2010
. . . Former Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn refers to dictatorial maniac and mass murderer Mao Zedong as one of her "favorite political . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 5, 2010
For a host of reasons that are fundamental to why humans have organized themselves within secure borders for millennia, a nation of "open borders" is not long . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 27, 2010
Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petard. . .
[Therefore] I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them [to] . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 15, 2010
There is no doubt that Barack Obama's policies are driven by Madly Spend/Insanely Borrow Nanny State Syndrome, the same malady that threatens the life of Europe . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 8, 2010
Although I'm among the many people who have previously applied George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" (1946) to contemporary culture, I'm at it . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 2, 2010
So it has come to this regarding problems that pertain to our southern border and immigration:
Anyone who disagrees with Democratic/Liberal "solutions" to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 29, 2010
Late as we were and wanting to avoid losing time in traffic, we headed for the Metro at a Maryland stop, where we noticed a casually dressed middle-aged couple, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 21, 2010
If there is one thing about politics essential for every American to know — young people, especially — it is this:
In a masterpiece of the perverse work . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 13, 2010
After the Obama administration leaked news it is preparing to sell the Citigroup stock the federal government acquired in exchange for bailing out the bank, it . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 7, 2010
Last June, when Barack Obama proposed to complete a de facto federal takeover of the U.S. healthcare system in three mere megalomaniacal months, the public . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 30, 2010
Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
He knew all too well, Shakespeare did, that aristocrats (of both . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 23, 2010
In the most recent act of a corrupt, unbelievably ugly drama, Obama and his congressional minions succeeded in buying off enough votes to send the abomination . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 16, 2010
The two thousand pages of hocus-pocus that is Barack Obama's dangerously ironic healthcare "reform" plan do nothing to solve the crucial problem of bringing . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 9, 2010
President Obama and other liberal elites can lie until the limousines come home that the near landslide majority of Americans who reject Obamacare have been . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 27, 2010
The financial scandal in Greece proves once again that governmental financial elites are as much a gang of Wizard of Oz frauds as so many of Wall Street's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 18, 2010
As a result of the Dow Jones' recent tumble, a good number of Americans are aware that the debt, deficit, and budget problems of the PIGS have roiled markets . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 6, 2010
Among the poems Emily Dickinson wrote under the heading "Life" is one about hope, which the poet imagines as a "little bird" that sings to her even "in the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 28, 2010
No one ought to express surprise that the result of the Massachusetts Senate race has not in the least shaken the faith of the American left, despite the fact . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 23, 2010
Suppose that a gang of thieves who had a long record of physically harming their victims not just by robbing them of their money and precious keepsakes but . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 19, 2010
The majority of Massachusetts voters usually vote blue; but as they have shown with their red votes over the years, they won't be told how to cast their ballots . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 14, 2010
From the moment news broke that the radical Islamist and al Qaeda terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had failed in his attempt to murder hundreds on Christmas . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 5, 2010
Even though Max Baucus is a VIP in the plot to stab America in the back with the dagger euphemistically named the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 24, 2009
For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the Babe wrapped in . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 19, 2009
Catherine Rampell's NY Times article about the value added tax ("Many See the VAT Option as a Cure for Deficits") evokes a number of reactions, one of the most . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 12, 2009
In harmony with Christmas and Hanukkah and an assurance that only leftists will accuse me of giving a bad gift, I'm offering this piece-of-advice present — . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 5, 2009
Thomas Friedman (NY Times) recently concluded the following about the substance and irony of the "narrative" that motivated the act of terror committed by Nidal . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 24, 2009
We can thank the Drudge Report for directing us to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's brief but extremely important piece whose title "The $100 Million Health . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 20, 2009
Two viruses caused the murders, wounds, and suffering at Fort Hood.
The first arises from the fact that although a capacity for evil is inherent in human . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 13, 2009
How would Jonathan Swift react to the inanities that for decades have issued from the minds and mouths of far too many recipients of a certain international . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 7, 2009
As Tuesday's vote revealed, individualism is alive and well in the nation, one happy aspect of which is that most of us insist upon drawing our own conclusions . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 31, 2009
If we can correctly guess anything about the nature of the leftist mind, it's that its neurons, in varying degrees, are rife with chemicals that give rise to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 23, 2009
Last weekend, the White House fired some of its biggest guns at Fox News. But tempted as we are, we cannot allow ourselves to speak of a war because the attack . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 17, 2009
Given all the hullabaloo directed at Senator Max Baucus as he and his Democratic allies anticipated cost estimates of his healthcare bill with the nervous . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 14, 2009
There's no arguing that congressional Democrats are smart not to put their healthcare bills online — After all, more than anyone else, they know that if . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 8, 2009
It's all the rage these days for liberals to put on their makeup, make up a long face, and star in mini, moldy morality plays that warn of extremism, an evil . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 1, 2009
Things are not going so well in Afghanistan, the amorphous, quasi-nation a Dutch NATO commander describes as making him feel he is "walking through the Old . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 25, 2009
Let's begin by defining epistemology simply as the branch of philosophy that asks this essential question about knowledge: "How do you know that?"
That job . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 19, 2009
A still-shocked Speaker Pelosi is absolutely right that the U.S. House of Representatives is in dire need of a good moral scouring. But she shouldn't go French . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 16, 2009
As the three of us drove to the nation's capital Saturday, the suggestion that we should have made a sign saying "I'd Rather Drink Tea Than Kool-Aid" had two of . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 5, 2009
It's safe to say political analyst Norman Ornstein doesn't agree that President Obama's K-12 educational happening is shameful in every sense of the term, which . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 29, 2009
Regarding the current healthcare debate, it is inarguable that to cover the entirety of The Bad and The Ugly alone, one needs to write more pages than those . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 15, 2009
Ever since the "great" Karl Marx and Company proclaimed their superiority over all other social/political/economic thinkers because they claimed to have . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 1, 2009
This past week both Frank Rich (NY Times) and Howard Kurtz (Washington Post) wrote columns about Walter Cronkite's contribution to television journalism. As one . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 25, 2009
We must believe in luck; for how else can we explain the success of those we dislike.
Guy de Blonay certainly knows that those who "dislike" Goldman Sachs . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 18, 2009
Paul Krugman is all in a worried sweat that America is "on its way to becoming a boiled frog" — that is, the mythical boiled frog that he correctly identifies . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 11, 2009
When Mark Twain set out to tell "the truth, mainly" about aristocrats, he did it this way:
"How much do a king git?"
"Get?" I says; "why, they get a . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 4, 2009
For some inexplicable reason, Governor Mark Sanford feels a compulsion to keep his media confessional sessions going as hot and heavy as his illicit affairs, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 27, 2009
Soon after brave Iranians began putting their lives on the line for freedom, justice, and a better life, Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the violence by Iran's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 20, 2009
Today before Congress and before the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us. — MoveOn.org
Pick the Target, Freeze it, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 13, 2009
Let me be upfront about something right from the jump: This piece is in no way critical of the behavior some Indian citizens are directing toward a remarkable . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 10, 2009
As soon as the "activists" of the Warren Court made it clear that in liberal jurisprudence a judge's personal beliefs and empathies can trump even explicit . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 3, 2009
Whether the object of their dictatorial pedantry is based upon what "empathic" judges, politicians, and social activists weave according to rules laid down by a . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 28, 2009
With its focus on the perversion of language, Part One warned of the dangers of Obama's national security policies.
Part Two turns to the threat Obama's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 19, 2009
The poor canary: Blessed with a beautiful song, he is cursed by an extreme sensitivity to carbon monoxide.
So it was that coal miners carried him to work, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 12, 2009
There is only this to say about how small Colin Powell came up when he recently criticized the Republican Party before a group of security executives:
It . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 7, 2009
When the financial and auto industries joined the mortgage business in being sickened by a virus composed exclusively of DNA from piggishly porcine VIP's of the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 2, 2009
"Since feeling is first," wrote e.e. cummings, one who "pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you." As it turns out, modern science . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 27, 2009
Unhappy truth that it is, the self-anointed intellectual giants called liberals never quit adding chapters to the book of their arrogant hypocrisy. Here are the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 23, 2009
I thought it an entirely good thing for the nation to catch glimpses of President Obama pulling weeds in the White House Vegetable Garden — until I realized . . .
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