After recount shows thousands of fraudulent ballots in presidential election, Afghan President Karzai agrees to run-off. How surprised will you be when he runs off with the run-off?

While contemplating new strategy in Afghanistan and planning withdrawal from Iraq, Obama Administration declares new war-against Fox.

President says he's "not losing...

OCT. 18, 2009, NEWS UPDATE

Senate Finance Committee approves sweeping health care reform bill by vote of 14-9 -- including, gasp, a Republican. That makes it bi-partisan. Bi-partisan, just like President Obama said. It's like being a little bit pregnant.

Republican voting in favor was Sen. Olympia Snowe...

President Obama wins Nobel Peace SurPrize ... Shock and Awe! Shocking and Awful?

Supporters claim well deserved. Critics cry "premature adulation."

Obama says "I feel I don't deserve to be in the company of past winners." You are not alone in that sentiment, sir. Expression of humility accepted. But...

OCT. 12, 2009, NEWS UPDATE

President Obama wins Nobel Prize. Shock and Awe. Shocking and Awful?

Supporters claim well deserved. Critics cry "premature adulation."

Obama says "I feel I don't deserve to be in the company of past winners." You are not alone in that sentiment, sir. Expression...

President Obama and wife Michelle fly to Copenhagen to help Chicago come in last in bid for 2016 Olympic Games. Something rotten in the State of Denmark?

White House hopes he does better on health care reform while staying at home.

Critics complain about wasted trip. Supporters...

President Obama makes first address to UN General Assembly, amazingly does not make health care reform pitch.

Obama gets Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to shake hands. Whoopee! Peace is at least at handshake if not at hand. What's needed is not a shaking of hands...

Obamathon ! President Obama appears on five-count'em-five Sunday morning talk shows to pitch health care reform.

Wonder if he knows that time period is known in the TV World as the "Sunday Morning Ghetto"?

Five shows included Univision. When the President is interviewed on a Spanish-speaking...

President Obama pitches Health Care Reform in major speech to joint session of Congress. Coverage hijacked by Republican terrorist Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican, who shouted "You Lie," as Obama spoke.

Wilson easily wins "Congressional Jerk of the Century" award despite intense competition.

House Republican whip Eric Cantor seen tweeting...

SEPT. 7, 2009, NEWS UPDATE

President Obama resumes interrupted vacation at Camp David. Lot cheaper than Martha's Vineyard.

President gives speech on education. For all those children left behind.

Unemployment reaches 9.7%. The only good news is that it includes George W. Bush.

Fraud alleged in Afghan election. Who...

President Obama on vacation, Congress in Recess. Sen. Ted Kennedy Dies... Not a good week for humor...

Jack Kennedy... Charismatic. Bobby Kennedy, inspirational. Teddy Kennedy, effective.

Teddy dies (not passes away, dies). End of a Dynasty, End of an Era, End of Liberalism? "The Dream shall never die."

Obama interrupts...

President Obama goes on vacation on Martha's Vineyard. Did health care reform go with him? Why doesn't anybody know why it's called Martha's Vineyard?

White House floats trial balloon suggesting public option need not be included. The terrorists have won.

Another balloon indicates White House may proceed on health care...

President Obama on the hustings, pitching health care reform. Anybody catching?

Town hall meetings on health care reform....Debate or Debacle? Media make sure squeakiest wheels get the grease.

Meetings degenerate into melees. Do you have the right to shout "ire" in a crowded town hall?

"Nazis," "Death Panels, "Socialism"....Ah, the...

AUG. 10, 2009, NEWS UPDATE

Sonia Sotomayor confirmed as member of the Supremes. Story front-paged by the Post....the Washington Post, that is. Not the New York Post....maybe they don't know she's from New York.

Thirty-one Republican Senators vote against. Some of them actually wanted to vote in favor, but they've...

The News Story of the Week: Health care bill floundering...Rising toll of American deaths in Afghanistan...Accelerated withdrawal of American forces from Iraq...Recession receding...Republican sex scandal....? No, it was:

The Beer Bust at the White House, The Brew Brouhaha, the Summit of Suds, the Cold (One) War, where racial confrontation came...

President Obama pitches Health Care Plan at prime time news conference, catches flak over Henry Louis Gates affair.

Obama says Cambridge police acted "stupidly" in arresting Gates in own home.

In fact, "stupidly" abounded.

Obama acted stupidly by answering question unrelated to subject of news conference and by...

Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to Supreme Court. Actually, they were more like talkings. According to a blogger, Senators uttered twice as many words as she did. At the end, empathy trumped antipathy.

Wise Latina woman wise enough not to crack wise at silly questions.

Michael Jackson Memorial this week. Anything else happen in the world?

If you're so snide about it, why is it the first item?

Rites fit for the King of Pop. Or any king, for that matter.

Headlines: Phenomenon in Life. Phenomenon in Death. Talent Trumps Turmoil. Greatest talent ever? Maybe....

Alaska Gov. Palin resigns, suggesting the media won't have Sarah to kick around any more. That's what you think, Sarah. Meanwhile tweets she's gone fishing. At least she didn't go hiking in Appalachia. Internet blogger dubs her "Iquitarod."

Media frenzy over "real reason" for resignation. Affair with a Gaucho?

More...

Michael Joseph Jackson: From child star to iconic "King of Pop" to Wacko Jacko to Dead at 50. Such an extraordinary talent. Such extraordinary talent squandered.

Don't Cry for Mark, Argentina... South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford goes missing, turns out he went to Argentina to see his... his girlfriend... lover......

Barack Obama kills at DC dinner as Stand-Up-in-Chief, proposes overhaul of financial system as Reformer-in-Chief, exercises caution in talking about Iran as Commander-in-Chief and whacks fly as Exterminator-in-Chief.

Approval rating drops to 58%. Must be the work of the fly lobby. Or Stephen Colbert's in-depth reporting on the family of...