Joseph Curl

CURL: Is everyone over at the White House high?

While marijuana's biggest booster — President Obama — says blowing a joint with your buddies is fine anytime, the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy says pot is "dangerous" and that sale of the drug is a "serious crime." (So, maybe just the occupant of the Oval Office is baked.) Published February 5, 2014

CURL: What has happened to the New York Times?

What has happened to The New York Times? The Gray Lady, America's Paper of Record, where readers turn to find "All the News That's Fit to Print," has gone off the deep end. Published February 2, 2014

CURL: State of the Union moot as Obama becomes irrelevant

CNN had a countdown clock, like Cape Canaveral launching a rocket to Mars. "2 hours 19 minutes 44 seconds" the clock said, ticking down to The Big Moment. Published January 29, 2014

CURL: White House panics as millennials wise up, bail on President Obama

President Obama is making a sudden push to win back millennial voters, who have grown disillusioned over his failed "Hope and Change" campaign that left them without jobs, living in their parents' basement. Published January 26, 2014

CURL: President Choom gives weed his seal of approval

President Obama says marijuana is no different from cigarettes and no "more dangerous than alcohol" — and he should know. Published January 22, 2014

CURL: The drip, drip, drip of Benghazi

Another day, another revelation on Benghazi. The "bipartisan" Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week put out a scathing report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Libya, citing "systematic failures" that led to the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Published January 19, 2014

CURL: For liars like Obama and Clinton, ends justify means on Benghazi

In the world of philosophy, there are two prime schools of thought about action and consequence. Published January 15, 2014

CURL: Chris Christie’s handling of ‘Bridgegate’ schools Obama on how to deal with a crisis

A note to all those crisis management PR firms lining K Street: The next time you have a client with a big problem, play 'em New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's "Bridgegate" press conference. Published January 12, 2014

CURL: Obama administration is in full meltdown

While President Obama hit the beaches and golf courses of sunny Oahu for a three-week vacation in December, palace intrigue was afoot in the White House and beyond. Published January 8, 2014

CURL: Irony alert: Global warmists get stuck in ice

A ship full of "global warmists" heads off on an expedition to Antarctica to prove that the ice shelf there is melting so fast that every beachfront house in the world will soon be swept away by a massive tsunami. But instead of finding a sad polar bear stuck on a tiny ice sheet, the adventurers found their ship stuck — in ice. Published January 5, 2014

CURL: At Christmastime, George W. Bush was Santa, Obama is Scrooge

Every year, in the week between Christmas and New Year's, I think about George W. Bush. Published December 30, 2013

CURL: Into Year 6, Obama admits he’s clueless

What a depressing presidency Barack Obama has wrought. Published December 22, 2013

CURL: Huckabee is all the buzz — especially to Huckabee

Suddenly, out of nowhere, everyone's talking about Mike Huckabee making a repeat run for the White House. Well, not everyone. Mostly, it's Mike Huckabee talking about Mike Huckabee. Published December 15, 2013

CURL: Christmas comes early to D.C.; New Year’s hangover to follow

With Santa Claus coming to town in just two weeks, the holiday spirit has swept over the nation's capital. Democrats and Republicans met under the mistletoe to strike a rare accord on a federal budget, the first bipartisan pact to come out of a divided Congress since 1986. The Obama administration concluded its bailout of General Motors, saving a private company from bankruptcy by buying a 60 percent stake. Published December 11, 2013

CURL: Obama tells a whopper on IRS scandal

Fact: The IRS targeted conservative and tea party groups requesting tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 presidential election. That's a fact. But President Obama, in an interview last week with sycophant Chris Matthews, now says the entire scandal was made up by the media. Published December 8, 2013

CURL: ‘Mission Accomplished’ for Obamacare

The Obama administration this week rolled out its revamped Obamacare website, and right away, traffic picked up — the site was able to handle a whopping 50,000 at the same time (about .00000000001 percent of what Amazon or Google can handle during this holiday season, but not bad for government work). Published December 4, 2013

CURL: Chris Christie rising, Barack Obama falling

With America's mainstream media taking the week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, the nation's lonely and underworked pollsters stepped up to feed the beast. Not surprisingly, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was a big winner, even if the 2016 election is three years away. Published December 1, 2013

CURL: Media ignores Democratic infighting, abandonment of Obama

One story the mainstream media just loves: Republicans at war. The party's splintered to shreds, torn beyond repair, rended in two, broken asunder. They write it week after week. The House speaker loses a vote, boom, the Republican Party is ruptured. But guess what story they never write? Published November 24, 2013

CURL: The beginning of the end for Barack Obama

Second-term presidents in the past 30 years have had some pretty embarrassing news conferences, full of frank admissions of failure, submissive spasms of shame and groveling, grieving apologies. Published November 17, 2013