Until we meet again: A columnist says goodbye
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011
Some things, it seems, are better done in one big leap than in increments. So here’s my leap: With this note to you, and with the close of the calendar year, I’ll be ending my regular column-writing duties and devoting my energies to getting a new business up to highway speed.
Here’s to the old year!
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011
We're finding too many reasons to drink toasts to 2011
Barking up the wrong fruit
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011
MILWAUKEE -- Shouldn't some Lemon Law protect Wisconsin voters from a governor like Scott Walker?
‘Reprehensible,’ says Newt
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011
Turns out Newt’s non-aggression pact was a nonstarter. Turns out Newt’s baggage—political, personal, psychological—was just too inviting a target, especially once he started pulling away from the rest of the GOP pack.
More seasoned greetings: It's another ho-ho-Horowitz Christmas
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011
Tough times? Try tunes! We've got political carols! Financial carols! Scandal carols! Carols from the world of sports!
Positively Newt
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011
We pause for a moment to contemplate what Newt Gingrich might say if he ever decided to go negative. But he’d never do that, would he? This is the New Newt! The Grandfatherly Newt! Forget who he used to be all those years ago—Knife-Fight Newt, Nuclear Newt. New Newt has sworn off taking the low road. Hasn’t he?
Meet the suppress: The GOP ‘confidence’ game
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011
The more people they can keep from registering, the more people they can keep from voting, the more they like it.
They’re trying to protect the “integrity” of the voting process, you see.
Trump says ‘jump!’ (They say ‘How high?’)
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011
He probably couldn’t run (again) for the GOP presidential nomination—but why shouldn’t he decide who’d win it?
Introducing the Donald Trump Debate!
You can take these promises to the campaign bank
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011
A president of the United States should never say we’ve done something wrong—that’s what separates America from other countries.
Bargainer in chief? Don’t hold your breath
By RICK HOROWITZ - Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011
So Barack Obama stayed away, and the supercommittee squabbled and quarreled and came up with nothing. Whereas if Barack Obama had joined the conversation, the supercommittee would have—squabbled and quarreled and come up with nothing.
Damage Control: Anyone can play!
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011
Herman Cain has given us a new contender in the Do-It-Yourself-Reframing category: the “Powerful Pause.” As excuses go, it’s nicely upbeat, which is exactly what you want when you’re trying to scrape the gum off your shoe.
Consternation in Bachmann Nation?
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011
Deep inside Bachmann Central Command, the congresswoman and her troops are embroiled in turmoil over why she isn't on TV as much as Rick Perry and Herman Cain.
‘Oops’?! He said ‘oops’?!
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011
Maybe this whole running-for-president thing wasn’t really Rick Perry's idea anyway. Maybe he was perfectly happy where he was, doing what he was doing. What better way to stick a fork in other people’s higher aspirations for him than to stumble over the very issue that’s nearest and dearest to his heart?
“There’s nothing to see here…”
By RICK HOROWITZ - Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011
They want you to revile “those people.” To ignore “those people.” To dismiss “those people.” “Those people” they’re yelling those things about: the Occupy Wall Street protesters, in New York and everywhere else.
Gunslinger? More like mudslinger!
By RICK HOROWITZ - Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011
If Rick Perry likes to have a little fun and poke at President Obama, columnist Rick Horowitz shows how two can play that game.
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