I have been telling friends and colleagues I refuse to believe Hillary Clinton is not the eventual Democratic presidential nominee until I look at the ballot on Election Day in November and her name is not on it in her party’s number one slot.

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I notice the 3 cable news networks are handling the L.A. earthquake differently.

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One of the names being mentioned as a possible replacement for Tim Russert on “Meet the Press” is “Hardball” host Chris Matthews.  Matthews is one of the biggest horse’s patooties on television, if not the biggest, a man so enamored of his own grating voice that he can barely stop talking long enough to let a guest get a word in.

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Hillary Clinton today said, in so many words, that one of the reasons she’s staying in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination is in case Barack Obama is assassinated the way Robert Kennedy was.  Her campaign is denying that’s what she meant, but that’s clearly what she meant. 

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While writing this I came under sniper fire and had to dive to safety under my desk.  Whoops, I misspoke.

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In a presidential election season that has already been filled with surprises, something extraordinary is now happening.  We’re seeing Hillary Clinton win the Democratic nomination through sheer force of will.

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There are people turning 20 next year who have never known a time when there has not been a Bush or a Clinton as president of the United States.

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I’ve been trying to figure out who former North Carolina Senator John Edwards is trying to imitate in his presidential quest.  It finally hit me.  Bobby Kennedy.  But just as former Colorado Senator Gary Hart couldn’t be JFK in 1984, it ain’t going to work.

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I had to laugh when CNN featured a discussion about whether the political future of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is in peril after Newsom admitted having an affair with the wife of a friend and former campaign manager.  How could it be in peril?  This is San Francisco.

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Every Republican I have spoken with lately acknowledges the very real possibility that Hillary Clinton will be the next president of the United States. 

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At a time when the U.S. mainstream media contorts itself to portray Muslims as pussycats, and those of us who are wary of Islam as fanatic nut jobs, along comes the politically correct, leftwing Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to contribute its propaganda machine to the pro-Muslim cause.

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I’m an outraged American these days, outraged and sick at heart over the state of our reality as 2006 nears a close. I’m outraged that:

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       If today’s political campaigns were a book, it would be delivered to the customer in a plain, brown wrapper.  If they were a “sport,” it would be professional wrestling. 

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       There’s at least one Democrat laughing at Sen. John Kerry’s failed “joke” about the uneducated ending up stuck in Iraq — I believe he was actually referring to President Bush since the remark was preceded by other jabs at the president – and her name is Hillary Clinton.

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An Ohio car dealership has decided not to run a commercial proclaiming a “jihad” on the U.S. car market, following complaints from the Ohio chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The dealership offered an apology and said the radio ad, which had never aired, was a misguided attempt at humor.

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Five years after the U.S. was sucker-punched by sub-humans, my sorrow is still overwhelmed by anger.

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A lot of air travellers have been griping about the intensified hassles associated with flying in the wake of tightened restrictions after 9/11 and the recently uncovered plot involving planes departing from London’s Heathrow Airport.

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