Joseph Curl
Columns by Joseph Curl
CURL: Letter to Barack: Here’s what you missed on your vacation (LOL!)
Dear Barry — Boy, what a summer you've missed here in the nation's capital! Then again, you got outta town just in time! So much going on since you left for Camp Vineyard, so lemme' try to catch you up so when you get back to the office, you'll have a clue what's been going on (bosses blow, don't they?). Published August 24, 2014
CURL: Obama wants Ferguson to explode
If you had predicted six years ago that America's first half-black, half-white president would actually make race relations in the U.S. worse, they would have laughed you out of the room. Published August 20, 2014
CURL: Obama, Democrats target GOP foes with phony scandals
Who are President Obama and the Democrats most afraid of? That's easy to see: Just find the Republicans they target with phony scandals. Published August 17, 2014
CURL: Obama’s one achievement — outgolfing Tiger Woods
As Barack "Eldrick" Obama approaches his 200th round of golf since his election as president, here's a fact to put that into perspective: Since January 2009, Tiger Woods has played 269 rounds of golf. Published August 13, 2014
CURL: John Kerry fail: Secretary blows Mideast peace talks, rides girl’s bike
Could the milquetoasty, bloviating windsurfer and failed White House wannabe from Massachusetts be having a worse time of it? Published August 10, 2014
CURL: This time around, it’s the Democrats who are stuck with lousy candidates
It seems Republicans have finally figured out that with the world imploding, the U.S. economy flagging and the current Democratic majority looking to grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens, perhaps there are better things to discuss than abortion and rape. Published August 6, 2014
CURL: Obama making fools of the media
The Obama administration, the most politically calculating team in U.S. history, had once again succeeded, simply by falling silent. When disastrous news emerges, Team Obama does two things: refuses comment and charges its foes with playing politics. Published August 3, 2014
CURL: Come election time, Obama suddenly talks jobs — and God
You can always tell when it's election time: President Obama suddenly starts talking about the economy, and, weirdly, God. Published July 30, 2014
CURL: Obama, staffers not even pretending any more
President Obama and his sycophantic minions don't even bother any more to come up with plausible answers to queries from the suddenly awakened media. Instead, they just repeat past talking points — aware that they've been repeatedly proven false, but not caring a bit. Published July 27, 2014
CURL: The politics of death and dying
Everyone I've met during my two-plus months in Florida has been touched by dementia. Not a few people, or nearly everyone, but — Every. Single. Person. Published July 20, 2014
CURL: Obama administration cries racism to cover for unpopular policies
Have you heard the one about the black attorney general who sits down with a black reporter from ABC News to talk about America's first black president? "Sure is a lot of racism," says the AG. Rim shot. Published July 16, 2014
CURL: The hypocrisy of Obama’s 15-day Vineyard vacation
On April 1, the U.S. economy dropped a whopping 2.9 percent for the first three months of the year (no fooling). The American workforce participation rate fell to a 40-year low. One-third of people aged 18-29 have moved back in with their parents. Millions of Americans this summer will enjoy yet another "staycation": They just can't afford to go to the beach or the mountains, even for a week — again. Published July 13, 2014
CURL: Obama turning millennials into Republicans
When summer ends, millions of adorable toddlers will head off to school for the first time. Each one will be as unique as his or her little fingerprints, but every kindergartner across the country will have one thing in common: They've never known an America that didn't have a black president. Published July 9, 2014
CURL: In Obama White House, echoes of Nixon
There's a scene in the movie "All the President's Men" — a terrifying scene — that could easily have been written about the Obama White House today. Published July 6, 2014
CURL: Obama is the worst president ever
It's official: Barack Obama is the worst president ever. Worse than Richard Nixon, who resigned from office to avoid impeachment. Worse than Jimmy Carter, who blamed Americans for their "malaise." Worse than President Clinton, who had sex in the Oval Office with an intern half his age and actually was impeached. Published July 2, 2014
CURL: This is an actual quote from President Obama — really
"By every economic measure, we are better off now than we were when I took office. You wouldn't know it, but we are," the president said Friday. Published June 29, 2014
CURL: Obama now in all-out free fall
President Obama is now reaching terminal velocity, like a skydiver plunging toward earth. Except he doesn't have a parachute. There's a mighty splat coming soon. Published June 25, 2014
CURL: 1%: Hillary is 2016’s Mitt Romney in White House race
Hillary Clinton is, without question, a smart lady. She has been a senator and secretary of state, after all. So no dummy, she. Published June 22, 2014
CURL: Is the term ‘Redskins’ really offensive?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is literally wrong about everything, vowed this week to boycott Washington Redskins games until team owner Daniel Snyder changes the name. That's right, the man who lives in the Ritz-Carlton is going to tough it out and give up his Sundays in a luxurious skybox at FedEx Field. How brave. Published June 18, 2014
CURL: IRS scandal gets Nixonian: The 18½-minute (or 26-month) gap
On Sept. 29, 1973, President Nixon's secretary, Rose Mary Woods, made "a terrible mistake." She was reviewing a tape recording from the previous year when she took a break to take a phone call. She meant to hit the pause button, she said, but hit the record button by accident — and poof, an 18½-minute gap. Published June 15, 2014
