Joseph Curl
Columns by Joseph Curl
Congress acting downright childish about government shutdown
This bad: When senators from both parties gathered over the weekend to privately discuss how to end the government shutdown, they were forced to resort to using a "talking stick." Hold the talking stick, only you can talk. Everyone else has to put on their listening hats. Published January 23, 2018
S—-hole? Bill Clinton made us explain far worse to our children
"It's pretty embarrassing when you have to take your children out of the room to report the news," Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, whined Monday. Published January 16, 2018
Politics keeps getting weirder: Media endorses Oprah for 2020
Oprah in 2020? Bring her on, says the Trump White House. Published January 9, 2018
Feminists mum on Iranian protest; Obama aides urge Trump to ‘be quiet’
As the biggest protest since the 2009 Green Revolution rages on in Iran, American feminists have been AWOL. And one-time aides to former President Barack Obama say President Trump shouldn't say a word, either. Published January 2, 2018
Tax cut bill little help to middle class
Congress passed a $1.5 trillion tax-cut bill Tuesday, but you won't be seeing too much of that cash. The bill cuts rates for corporations and gives new tax breaks to private businesses, but you ... yeah, not so much. Published December 19, 2017
Donald Trump is right: Fake news is everywhere
There need be no doubt any more: America's mainstream media hypes fake news — and that's a fact. Published December 12, 2017
Robert Mueller’s credibility plunging as Donald Trump probe implodes
Sometimes, you can tell the big story of the day by what CNN is NOT covering — or by how the heavily biased network covers what they think is the big story. Published December 5, 2017
Nancy Pelosi excuses sexual harassment — for Democrats, anyway
The top Democrat in the House seems to be in a perpetual state of confusion, loses her train of thought in mid-sentence often, and just seems out of it most of the time. And when she is able to string together a coherent thought, it's just weird. Published November 28, 2017
Al Franken should do the right thing and resign
Sen. Al Franken last week was revealed to be a skeevy perv. Published November 21, 2017
Donald Trump triumphs in Asia — media talks handshakes, goldfish
President Trump just completed a 12-day trip to Asia, his first as the most powerful man in the world. By all accounts, the trip was a resounding triumph. Strike that. By all accounts OVER THERE, the trip was a resounding success. Published November 14, 2017
George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush bash Donald Trump
In surprisingly undiplomatic terms for elder statesmen, George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush, bash President Trump in a soon-to-be released book. While both of the former presidents vowed when they left office not to speak ill of their successors -- a pledge they've kept for the most part -- there's just something about Donald J. Trump that they can't stand. Published November 7, 2017
Nathan Larson, thanks to Terry McAuliffe, now felon running for office
Once upon a time, a governor elected by the people for the people decided that anyone who had ever committed a felony -- like murder and rape and, maybe, threatening to kill the president of the United States -- should be treated just like a law-abiding citizen. With the stroke of a pen, he restored voting rights to thousands and thousands of ex-felons. Published October 31, 2017
Trump bashing by media unfair, Jimmy Carter says
Jimmy Carter, born in 1924, is finally cutting loose. He's been pounding nails for the last 40 years with Habitat for Humanity (OK, and working toward world peace and winning the Nobel Prize), but he's finally comfortable telling it just like it is. Published October 24, 2017
New York Times editor admits paper is very, very (very) biased
The muckity mucks in the liberal media pshaw the claim like you've said the sun rises in the west. Big wigs across the massive media conglomerates repeat the denial until they're blue in the face: There is no liberal bias in the media, they say. Published October 17, 2017
Donald Trump golf score of 73 drives haters crazy
Kim Jong-il, the late supreme leader of North Korea, was one heckuva golfer. He only played once, in 1994, and he reportedly shot a 38-under-par round on the country's only golf course, including 11 holes-in-one (although some reports say he only had five). That's right: Par was 72; he shot a 34. His worst score all round long was a birdie. Published October 10, 2017
Democrats scramble to paint Puerto Rico as Trump’s Katrina
Even before the storm hit the U.S. territory, home to some 3.5 million people, President Trump declared a federal emergency for the island, putting into action a massive rescue-and-relief plan and freeing up millions in aid. The federal government dispatched the military and throngs of first responders to the Caribbean island, along with tons of water and food. Published October 3, 2017
Obama hauls in millions from Wall Street, media don’t say a word
It's the height of hypocrisy. Former President Barack Obama is hauling in millions from Wall Street banks -- the very institutions he harangued throughout both of his presidential campaigns. Published September 26, 2017
Hillary Clinton talks her love of vodka — and ‘sort of, facts’ — on start of book tour
The stage: A couple of comfy green leather chairs, a bookcase between and behind them — filled with copies of one book. The hall, Warner Theater in Washington, D.C., which was sold out Monday night for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's first of 15 tour stops to sell her new book and to tell us all "What Happened." Published September 19, 2017
Even the Miss America pageant is political now
In this day and age, when every single Hollywood award ceremony and every daytime talk show and even TV commercials are now political, of course it makes sense that beauty pageants should be, too. Published September 12, 2017
Hurricane Harvey brought out the leadership of Donald Trump
President Donald Trump changed a lot of minds last week. Published September 5, 2017