Joseph Curl
Columns by Joseph Curl
CURL: ‘Re-elect Obama — more debt than all 43 presidents before him’
President Obama's policies are, it can also be said at long last, a dismal failure. He has been in office for 30 months, so his agenda, with the help of a sympathetic Senate, has been, for the most part, enacted. And things have gotten worse. Published August 7, 2011
CURL: The tea party IS the third party
The times they are a-changin'. There's a new power force in Washington, and it's running the show right now, deciding the very fate of the nation. Published July 31, 2011
CURL: Is Obama a pathological liar?
In the weird world that is Washington, men and women say things daily, hourly, even minutely, that they know deep down are simply not true. Inside the Beltway, we all call those utterances "rhetoric." But across the rest of the country, plain ol' folk call 'em lies. Published July 24, 2011
CURL: Who says tax cuts kill jobs? Our history sure doesn’t
A statement President Obama made halfway through his news conference last week was so unfathomable, so utterly incomprehensible, that befuddled White House stenographers simply gave up and tacked a "[sic]" next to it. Published July 17, 2011
CURL: Freedom of the press almost impossible to define
America's birthday. Today. 235 years old. This is a day when all Americans should ... Published July 3, 2011
CURL: Obama says everything — and nothing
What on earth is President Obama talking about? The short answer is everything — and nothing. Published June 26, 2011
CURL: Veep blunder in ‘08 might be right pick for Romney
In the summer of 2008, Republican Sen. John McCain was not doing so good. He had gone from front-runner status against presumed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton to badly trailing an obscure first-term senator from Illinois. Published June 19, 2011
CURL: Weiner was looking for love in all the wrong places
So there's this movie. In it is a guy (a white suit he has on). He's handsome, smart as a whip, debonnaire, a real class act. He's got all the right friends, hundreds, thousands even, and they adore his every move. Published June 12, 2011
CURL: Election 2012 by the numbers (take 1)
North Carolina. Colorado. Iowa, Indiana, Nevada, Virginia - and the old favorites Ohio and Florida. Published June 5, 2011
CURL: Porn Twittergate has Rep. Weiner hacked off
Every American should be absolutely outraged about WeinerGate. Outraged! Published May 29, 2011
CURL: It’s hard to win when your motto is ‘It’s my turn’
Once upon a time there was a president, wavering in popularity. He was deemed by some political pundits as "highly beatable." But then, the Republican Party did the unthinkable: It gave the nomination to a guy because it was essentially "his turn," and the candidate got shellacked by the incumbent Democratic president. Published May 22, 2011
CURL: Ron Paul will win 2012 GOP nomination *
* No, not Ron Paul, the 75-year-old congressman from Texas and grandfather of the tea party ... Ron Paul's ideas. Published May 15, 2011
CURL: So many Osama queries, so little doubt
Here are the three best "theories" circling the Internet about why President Obama chose not to release the death photo of Osama bin Laden: Published May 8, 2011
CURL: White House out of gas on remedies for pump price
President Obama hasn't a clue what to do about high gas prices. Not a clue. Published May 1, 2011
CURL: Consequences of debt crisis aren’t too dire for our leaders
Just how dire is the crisis over the $14,294,000,000,000 debt ceiling, which America will hit on about May 16? Published April 24, 2011
CURL: Trump shows lightweights how to pound Obama in 2012
Just how weak is the 2102 Republican presidential field? Published April 10, 2011
CURL: Press yawns at story much worse than Abu Ghraib
Paging Seymour Hersh. White courtesy telephone, please. A scandal of epic proportions is being completely ignored by the media -- including the AWOL Mr. Hersh, who, among others, broke the Abu Ghraib story. Published April 3, 2011
CURL: Who’s wearing pantsuit at White House?
In the end, the call didn't come at 3 a.m. But the Decider in Chief who answered the phone made sure that everyone in the White House knew who wore the pantsuit around there. Published March 27, 2011
CURL: Toil, trouble in Obama’s bubble
President Obama has got bubble trouble. Published March 20, 2011
