Get Your Irish On

Whether you are truly Irish---as I am---or Irish in spirit, we're all Irish today.

According to legend, Saint Patrick drove the snakes from his home country.

Sounds like my own job description exactly.

Happy St. Patrick's! May the luck o' the Irish be with you.

Ron Silver, Friend

I met the great actor Ron Silver years ago when I came to New York. From our first conversation, I knew I had found a friend for life. He was a man of extraordinary intelligence, a robust sense of humor, and unparalleled kindness, generosity, and a vibrance for life, even when that life began seeping away from him.

He was an incredible actor who won Emmy and Tony Awards for his work.

He was a dedicated patriot who served his country in so many ways, some seen, some unseen.

He was a devoted father who loved his children. They are wonderful people: his best testament.

He was a loyal friend to those lucky enough to be his.

I miss him.

I know I'm not the only one.

Slice of Pi

On Thursday, the people's house---the U.S. House of Representatives---set aside time from taking a wrecking ball to the economy to honor pi. No that's not a typo. They honored pi, as in the Greek letter symbolizing the powerful mathematical constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

Pi has been calculated to more than 1 trillion digits (1 trillion....where have we heard that before?).

It's usually rounded off to 3.14.

Apparently our elected officials are so dazzled by pi that they felt irresistibly compelled to honor that number. If they continue to feel such a compulsion, perhaps they might next honor the dwindling numbers of our bank accounts. Or 401k's. Or the exploding numbers of our national deficit and debt.

But first, they pass a piece of pi.

Beijing Hugs Ronald Reagan

Ah, the irony.

The Chinese Communist government is teaching us a thing or two about the free market.

Feeling the effects of the global economic slowdown, the Chinese put together a relatively modest stimulus package that reduces individual tax burdens and cuts wasteful spending.

It did something else as well.

The government cut taxes in half on small cars. The result? Car sales surging by 25 percent, the first gain in four months.

What do you know?

China cut taxes, and auto sales spiked.

China cut taxes, and a part of its economy started to boom.

Cutting taxes equals economic growth.

The Chinese Commies get it.

Billy Idol gets it.

Still waiting for the American Democrats to get it.

A Reminder From Our 16th President to Our 44th

Speaking to a crowd of 10,000 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a tall, skinny lawyer from Illinois spoke about America:

"We are eighty years old. We stand at once the wonder and admiration of the whole world, and we must enquire what it is that has given us so much prosperity." He paused. "The cause is that every man can make himself."

Abraham Lincoln, 1856

Every man can make himself. Unless the government impedes, blocks, and oppresses you.

Imus In The Morning

I'll be a guest with Imus on Tuesday morning at 8:30am ET. Please tune in or visit www.WABCRadio.com to hear it streamed live.

A Reminder from Our 4th President to Our 44th

Hey, 44! You aren't the first POTUS to have to deal with this.

"The present situation of the world is indeed without a parallel, and that of our own country full of difficulties. The pressure of these, too, is the more severely felt because they have fallen upon us at a moment when the national prosperity being at a height not before attained, the contrast resulting from the change has been rendered the more striking."

James Madison, 1813

A Reminder from Our 3rd President to Our 44th

"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."

Thomas Jefferson, 1801

The McLaughlin Group

Please join us for "The McLaughlin Group" this weekend. Check your local listings for time and channel, or visit www.McLaughlin.com for more information and podcasts.

Romney Speaks

By popular demand, I am posting the link to former Governor Mitt Romney's address to CPAC last weekend. 

It was the best speech by a Republican politician I have heard in a while.  Don't let the Left and the Lamestream media tell you we are bereft of ideas and leaders. 

Behold Mitt Romney.  Cheers

CLICK HERE TO WATCH