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Articles Written by: BURT PRELUTSKY
Editors' Note: This is Burt Prelutsky's final piece for Townhall.com. You can read his archive here and check out his Big Hollywood archive here.
If I had to explain Americans to a Martian, I would be hard-pressed. It would be especially difficult when ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
14 Aug 2009
My wife and friends often find it bizarre that I answer every e-mail I receive from my readers, including those who merely write to insult me. On occasion, even I, not being a masochist, have asked myself why I do it. There are a couple of reasons. ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
7 Aug 2009
When people used to conjure up an example of a man frazzled to within an inch of his life, they would refer to a one-armed paperhanger. On film, we had Mickey Mouse, cast as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in “Fantasia,” bedeviled by a battalion of marching ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
3 Aug 2009
Two days ago, I returned from a weekend in San Francisco to learn that my father had died. Sam Prelutsky was born in Russia, in 1901 or 1902. He never knew for
certain. It didn’t seem to bother him.
As a young man in America, he settled in a part of ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
3 Aug 2009
By this time, I’m sure we’ve all heard more than we care to about Professor Henry Gates. Still, I can’t let it go without tossing in my two cents. Admitting he didn’t know the facts of the case didn’t prevent President Obama, allegedly our first ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
31 Jul 2009
During last year’s presidential campaign, Joe Wurzelbacher raised a lot of hackles in liberal circles when he got Barack Obama to admit he was in favor of the federal government redistributing America’s wealth.
It was a landmark moment. For one thing, ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
27 Jul 2009
Nobody has to tell me things are going from bad to worse in America. The question that preys on my mind is when it was that we began our descent. Some would say it started when Jimmy Carter turned his back on the Shah of Iran, thus providing an impetus ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
20 Jul 2009
Frankly, I’m beginning to feel a lot like Howard Beale, the character portrayed by Peter Finch in the 1976 release, “Network.” He insisted that people get up right now and go to the window, open it, stick their heads out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
17 Jul 2009
In case you were off on a different planet and hadn’t heard the news, Michael Jackson died. It was a tragedy. Not that this piece of human rubbish had died, but that the media, including Fox News, carried on as if it was a major loss to mankind.
This ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
13 Jul 2009
Conservative pundits keep lecturing us about treating Barack Obama with respect instead of following the example of those nasty liberals who, not satisfied with trashing George W. Bush for eight long years, are still at it. As if we were a bunch of ...
From BURT PRELUTSKY,
Town Hall,
10 Jul 2009
