Published February 7, 2010, 12:01 AM EST
by GIL SMART, Smart Remarks
So there's a riot goin' on, a big old Tea Party convention that ends today in Nashville. People have gathered to express their OUTRAGE over Obama and his socialist communist fascist government agenda and demand that we take back America by electing Sarah Palin president or some godawfu......
Published February 5, 2010, 11:38 AM EST
by GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER
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Published January 31, 2010, 12:01 AM EST
by GIL SMART, Smart Remarks
When I first started writing a newspaper column, I quickly discovered that the third rail of commentary — at that time — was WGAL. Criticizing WGAL, as I did in one of my first columns (following a huge 1996 snowstorm that I thought could have been reported better) brought a deluge of......
Published January 28, 2010, 5:26 PM EST
by GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER
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Published January 24, 2010, 12:01 AM EST
by GIL SMART, Smart Remarks
I'm in the doctor's office just after 8 a.m., plowing through the morning newspaper when a woman bursts in and announces she's there because of an "emergency." Emergency? The half-dozen people in the waiting room glanced up at her: Nothing appeared to be wrong. But s......
Published January 21, 2010, 1:20 PM EST
by GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER
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Published January 17, 2010, 12:01 AM EST
by GIL SMART, Smart Remarks
The gradual purpling of this space has been the subject of numerous e-mails in recent weeks, as avowed conservatives who insist they never read anything I write somehow managed to catch my published doubts about Obama. And they wished to cheer my revelation that all things blue are not wonderful.......
Published January 15, 2010, 1:02 PM EST
by GIL SMART and CASEY KREIDER
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Published January 10, 2010, 12:01 AM EST
by GIL SMART, Smart Remarks
I know, that headline's a real doozy coming from someone like me, who's spent the past decade-plus lambasting the right in all its outraged glory. For a long time the concerns of this country have seemed to fit — and how conveniently! — into the classic left-right paradig......
Published January 3, 2010, 12:01 AM EST
by GIL SMART, Smart Remarks
As I watched "It's a Wonderful Life" on Christmas Eve, it dawned on me that Mr. Potter just didn't get it. If you've seen the movie, you know the aging, embittered banker derides Jimmy Stewart's George Bailey for making loans to the "riffraff" — the ......
