“The Real Housewives of D.C.” (RHODC) is the most political entry in the Housewives series to date, and not just because it’s set in the nation’s capital and features the ladies attending political fundraisers, constituent-legislator meetings with D.C. council members, and pow wows with ambassadors from Nigeria and Burkina-Faso. RHODC is the fifth entry in [...]
Tyranny, Subjectivity, and Collective Punishment on TV’s “Hell’s Kitchen”
I wanted to like the cooking show “Hell’s Kitchen,” but after watching the first two episodes of the current season, I find I must label it a grim, joyless spectacle blotting the landscape of reality TV. The program is currently in the middle of its eighth season, and while it obviously has a big following, [...]
Hot Post: “The Social Network”: Glorifying Litigation Over Innovation
Editor’s note: This is the Hot Post for this week’s Concession Stand, original post can be seen here Leftists hate movies about business because they don’t understand its function and believe wealth is generated by redistributing it from rich people who “appropriated” it from the masses. Leftists love movies about lawyers, because litigation is the [...]
More Gun Crimes, Less Sanity About Gun Control
Every time a gun crime happens in this country, the mainstream media give it sensationalistic coverage, and so-called liberals cover their mouths with their hands like little girls and then remove them and start howling about the necessity of even more gun control legislation than the historically high levels we have now. As the just [...]
“The Social Network”: Glorifying Litigation Over Innovation
Leftists hate movies about business, because they don’t understand its function and believe wealth is generated by redistributing it from rich people who “appropriated” it from the masses. Leftists love movies about lawyers, because litigation is the primary means by which they can take down prosperous corporations and “spread the wealth around.” No business venture [...]
Animated Limbaugh Addresses an Independent Voter on “Family Guy”
Last night “Family Guy” featured a gracious appearance by Rush Limbaugh as himself in an episode titled “Excellence in Broadcasting.” The animated Rush attends a book signing at the Quahog Mall, where ultra-liberal family member and talking canine Brian waits in line just to insult Rush, who gently suggests that Brian read one of his [...]
SNL Mocks Obama, Pelosi for Their Eloquent Grace Under Fire
“Saturday Night Live” (SNL) is held up by “television historians” as a paragon of insightful, ruthless satire of the political scene. Whatever merits SNL might have once had in that department, lately its level of political analysis has been about as deep as the shot glasses its writers undoubtedly empty before they pen each week’s [...]
Boehner’s Bone-Headed Remarks on Tax Cuts
On the first season of “The Apprentice,” there was a character who got fired because of a comment she made to Donald Trump in explaining her team’s failure to win that week’s challenge, a remark that implied her team had been “duped” by the other side. Everyone was mystified why she would make, as Trump [...]
Obama’s Playing the Claw Game With Our Economy
I’m sure you’ve seen those claw or crane games at arcades or amusement parks—huge glass boxes filled with prizes and a mechanical claw you remotely operate to grab at the goodies and try to haul something out before your time is up. The game can be frustrating: the claw is hard to maneuver, and it [...]




















