Pen-pricks
• Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh vehemently denied a woman’s claim he groped her at a party in high school, saying he wasn’t even there. The media smells blood. CNN reported Sunday that in the sixth grade, Kavanaugh once went swimming 25 minutes after eating.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was offered back his old starring role in this week’s hit movie “Predator.” He was the star of the original movie of the same name 30 years ago. Arnold turned down the movie because he was scared off by the movie’s title: “Predator—The Maid’s Story.”
• The Emmy awards were aired live on NBC from the Microsoft Theater on Hollywood Boulevard. They thought about allowing me to emcee but they didn’t like my opening line. And the Emmy for acting like anybody still watches network TV goes to everyone sitting in the Microsoft Theater.
• The National Geographic Channel reported recent archaeological discoveries from the Roman Empire era. These treasures teach us so much. They said this week, a container of priceless ancient gold coins was discovered beneath a theater in Italy, proving that snacks have always been overpriced.
Argus Hamilton is the host comedian at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and a speaker. His email address is argus@argushamilton.com.
This is the American flag and our national anthem for which it stands under God and our freedom! I mean for Christ’s sakes, please forgive me for my language but we raise holy hell over this issue. People complain and whine about our country not doing enough for our people. Our soldiers who served their country and lived to tell the stories about the wars they fought deserve the highest respect.
The soldiers who are enlisted in the U.S. armed forces and serving our beloved country to this day deserve the same respect. They work very hard to get medals and promotions to protect and serve this country.
Each soldier has a family who is left home raising a family while the other is keeping our country safe.
Those who never put on that uniform and stood there waiting to be deployed and the probability of not returning to their families don’t have a clue about what it takes to be a soldier who cares about their country and keep us safe.
The flag is meant to respect those who lived and died for our freedom. We stand proud for the national anthem and the flag because it took the blood, sweat and tears that were shed to keep you safe. We pay our respects to the fallen not because it’s
With the upcoming midterm elections quickly approaching, a renewed theme of socialist ideology has emerged among certain primary candidates across the country.
The supposed merits of socialism have been touted as a cure-all for the perceived evils of capitalism. They would have you believe that capitalism is destroying our nation.
To be sure, folks with bad intentions, crony capitalists, have hijacked certain segments of our free market to exploit their fellow countrymen. There will always be evil among us.
Capitalism has produced some of the greatest innovations of our time. One only needs to study the failures of the socialist paradise in Venezuela to recognize the pitfalls of a system praised by Hollywood leftists only a few short years ago. When the family pet ends up on the dinner table as the main course due to rampant food shortages, it might be time to rethink your agenda.
History is littered with the abject failures and resulting consequences of socialism. It’s not that it hasn’t been done correctly, it’s the fact that it was ever implemented at all.
“If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.” – Friedrich August von Hayek.