Tarzana Joe

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Jun 15, 2012

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Trust Me on This As the Obama Speech was not well received even by the mainstream media, s trangely, the White House has reached out t...
May 5, 2012

Soldier Statesman

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If you’ve listened to the witnesses At trial for John Edwards And concluded trust, integrity And honor all were dead words If you thi...
Apr 13, 2012

Turning Apple Trees to Kindling

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I’ve made minute inquiries And a score of detailed queries But never put much credence In conspiratorial theories Rather I’ve determin...
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Mar 23, 2012

UN Conventional Wisdom

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As Richard Nixon said one night You win the party on the right And then he said, with no dissenter You win the nation at the center So...
Mar 16, 2012

We will Not Comply

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I’ve railed at least a dozen times And written more than several rhymes Assailing them as frauds and fools Those bureaucrats and all thei...
Mar 9, 2012

Getting there from Here

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I think they lay awake at nights Working on inventing rights And after all the work is done They’ve come up with another one They have ...
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Mar 3, 2012

Prayers for Chardon

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I’ve walked the streets of Chardon And bought maple sugar candy From a girl behind the counter Who went to that High School Like her sis...
Mar 2, 2012

Andrew

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Well, he was no summer soldier Where he fought was hard and cold His manner? …less than gentle His words were always bold Andrew was a ...
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Feb 17, 2012

Randon Rhymes

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When ere I write my poetry I try to have a theme But with this one I think I’ll row My conscious down the stream There’s so much to pr...
Jan 27, 2012

State of the U nion

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Because it’s wise to scrutinize The nation’s apparatus Once a year the president Reports the union’s status He stands before the congre...
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Jan 13, 2012

Fired Up

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The outlook is improving And I hear Home Depot’s hiring However, there are people We must still consider firing There’s several I can ...
Dec 29, 2011

Happy New Year

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New Year 2012 I think you folks will all concur The year gone by has been a blur It seems October pumpkins still Are resting on my wind...
Dec 9, 2011

Is this any way to pick a candidate?

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Some folks think that we’re heading down A freeway to disaster Under the direction of Some evil puppetmaster A hidden hand that seeks t...
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Nov 18, 2011

A Psalm for the Psuper Committee

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When I was young I had this thing I thought that compromise was king And I would go That extra mile To, meet, retreat or reconcile I...
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Nov 10, 2011

Veteran’s Day 2011

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When you stand to pledge allegiance When you hit your knees to pray For our past and for the future Thank a veteran today With a feeli...
Nov 4, 2011

A Poem of Scandals

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As sure as rain’s in Spain And there’s some wind in them thar willows I know we’re going to learn Each politician’s peccadilloes The p...
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Oct 28, 2011

Tarzana Rant

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They say,” To the victor belongs the spoils” But I say, to the spoiled belongs the victory!" They put stuff in our cigarettes to mak...
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Sep 28, 2011

Regulations

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Despite the constant chorus of Small business protestations Everyone in Washington Is making regulations On everything from lightbulbs ...

A Religious Test

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I stand upon a perfect sphere And gaze at the horizon With nothing there to mar my view Not building, bridge, or bison I know there mus...
Sep 9, 2011

Poems from the 9/11 Broadcast

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The following poem about people who serve in the armed forces during Peacetime was a collaboration among the listeners to Hugh Hewitt's ...
Jun 26, 2011

Spoonerism Poem

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Allow me to tell you a foly hable The story of brothers, Ain and Cable Now Cable lived life serene and mellow But Ain was an angry and fealo...
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Jun 17, 2011

A Ban on Bans

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Our overreaching nannies Are sitting on their fannies Hatching clever plans And plotting lots more bans It sets their hearts a’flutter To ba...
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Jun 4, 2011

I Wish I was a Congressman in D.C.

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I want to be a Congressman I want to oh so bad I hear it is the best job Any person ever had I will be so focused I’ll start right now, toda...
May 27, 2011

Memorial Saturday on Wilshire Blvd

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The scouts arrive at 7 A simple ceremony Shorter than you expect it to be The flags are given out And each scout finds his line of stones P...
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May 6, 2011

Unarmed

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Those with sensitivity Have been a bit alarmed And feel restraint’s required If someone is unarmed Perhaps the legendary DUKE Depicted it th...
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