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Burt Prelutsky (Aug 14, 2009)
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.
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Burt Prelutsky (Aug 10, 2009)
I suspect that because George Bush and Condoleezza Rice were so respectful of Muslims, constantly telling us that theirs is a religion of peace, some otherwise sensible... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Aug 07, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Aug 03, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 31, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 31, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 27, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 24, 2009)
I have received a number of e-mails over the years from disgruntled parents griping about the left-wing indoctrination their kids are forced to undergo at colleges and... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 20, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 17, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 13, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 10, 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... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 06, 2009)
Being a conservative, I naturally spend an inordinate amount of time attempting to psychoanalyze left-wingers, trying to figure out what makes them tick. God knows I’m... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 03, 2009)
On more than one occasion, I have asked myself how it is that in a country where twice as many people call themselves conservatives, liberals are able to control the media,... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jul 03, 2009)
It used to be said of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers that he gave her class and she gave him sex appeal. These days, you have actors and liberal politicians teaming up. ... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 29, 2009)
Back in 2008, New York Times correspondent David S. Rohde, along with Afghan reporter Taki Luden, were abducted in Pakistan by the Taliban. Because they felt it might... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 26, 2009)
I often find myself thinking that if liberals didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Consider the uproar from the left when Don Imus opened... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 22, 2009)
A while back, I heard Obama bragging about his first few months in the White House. When he claimed he had done as much in that period as any president in history, my... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 19, 2009)
The question that’s been weighing on my mind is, who is best suited to study those strange beings known as liberals? It strikes me that they’d be fit subjects for... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 15, 2009)
There are times, I must confess, when I consider our current culture and conclude that the Muslims are right about us. We are, as they insist, hedonistic, and far too many of... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 12, 2009)
The other day I received an e-mail from a lady who let me know she was in the habit of forwarding my articles to her daughter who is away at college. Apparently she... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 08, 2009)
Whenever I have suggested that left-wingers aren’t normal human beings, and have wondered if perhaps they’re some weird interplanetary life form like the pods in "Invasion... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 05, 2009)
Whenever I write an attack piece about President Obama and his cronies on the Left, I invariably hear from a handful of barely literate dullards whose message is... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jun 01, 2009)
In recent days, my attention was grabbed by former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Yelena Bonner, the widow of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.
The one I applaud is... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 29, 2009)
Those on the Left who have trashed George W. Bush for this entire decade claim they weren’t being rude or unpatriotic, but were simply talking truth to power. That has a... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 25, 2009)
I have always found it odd that whenever the producers of TV, movies and records, are accused of setting a bad example for the kids, they always insist that their product is... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 22, 2009)
Feeling as I do about Barack Obama, it’s only natural that I would look for people to blame for putting him in the Oval Office. I mean, aside from the 63 million oafs who... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 18, 2009)
Certain conservative commentators have begun taking exception to those of us who have identified Barack Obama as a socialist, a communist or a left-wing ideologue. The... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 15, 2009)
I am one of those people who have loved baseball nearly my entire life. Even though I was born in Chicago and moved to L.A. when I was just a kid, I was never a fan of the... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 11, 2009)
I used to be what I thought was a liberal. If, at the time, anyone had asked me to explain myself, I would have said that I opposed Jim Crow laws, that I believed workers... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 08, 2009)
I’m not of the opinion that a person has to be perfect in order to point out the failings of others, but liberals take it to such an extreme that you have to wonder if they... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 04, 2009)
According to my wife, I have a tendency to state my opinion as fact. She suggests that I begin my sentences by saying “It’s only my opinion, but…” and go on from there. ... more
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Burt Prelutsky (May 01, 2009)
I was born in 1940, which means that during my lifetime 13 men have been president of the United States. For many of those years, I was a Democrat. As was the case with... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Apr 27, 2009)
Judging by my e-mail, a great many conservatives are counting down the days until they next get to vote in 2010. They hope and pray that Americans will come to their... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Apr 24, 2009)
In all of history, so far as I’m aware, there had only been two famous tea parties. At the first one, Samuel Adams and a few of his freedom-loving friends pitched several... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Apr 20, 2009)
Recently, I was called cranky in an article posted at the Huffington Post. The good news is that it’s one of the few times that anything approaching the truth has been... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Apr 17, 2009)
I have always contended that anybody who seeks the presidency is an egomaniac, every bit as certifiably crackers as those poor souls wandering around the grounds of the... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Apr 13, 2009)
During the presidential campaign, we were told that Barack Obama was another Lincoln. At the time, I recall thinking that he might very well be another Lincoln, but... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Apr 10, 2009)
Some people would have you believe I’m as stubborn as a Missouri mule. I prefer to think I’m principled, that I say what I mean and mean what I say. By the time I take a... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Apr 06, 2009)
I never imagined I’d say it, but I’m beginning to identify with Barack Obama. I’m certainly not referring to his politics or his narcissism, but it seems that both of us... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Apr 03, 2009)
Perhaps it’s because I was summoned for jury duty a few weeks ago that I have been hyper-aware of criminal matters lately. My attention was particularly grabbed by a couple... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 30, 2009)
Recently, I posted a piece at Townhall in which I suggested that Mrs. Obama is not, to put it mildly, my ideal. I stated that so long as the president and the first lady... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 27, 2009)
I have to hope for the sake of our country’s future that when people voted for Obama they really had no idea what a disaster he would be, even though I kept warning them that... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 22, 2009)
The way that liberal politicians and Hollywood celebrities carry on over the plight of poor people, you might easily get the idea that they actually know some. They don’t. ... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 20, 2009)
Several states are considering raising additional tax revenues by charging us a fee based on the number of miles we drive. In order to monitor our comings and goings, they... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 16, 2009)
When the Democrats took James Carville’s advice to attack Rush Limbaugh, it made perfect sense. Some people thought it was intended to distract us from the fact that Obama... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 13, 2009)
Although I would like to believe that every single article I write springs full-grown from my brain as Athena was alleged to have sprung from the head of Zeus, such is not... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 09, 2009)
Two news items caught my attention this past month, and although they occurred 3,000 miles apart, they are definitely connected.
In New York, Muzzammil Hassan, who... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 06, 2009)
If I hear one more person point out that Obama is the president and that it’s our duty to support him, I just might run amok. For one thing, I resent being reminded that... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Mar 02, 2009)
When I first thought about writing this piece, I was only going to list my all-time favorite movies, breaking them down by decade. I was going to explain that these weren’t... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Feb 27, 2009)
I believe it is long past time to end the War on Drugs. That’s not because I approve of drug use or have any desire to encourage it. But this particular war has already... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Feb 23, 2009)
Down through the years, there have been a great many movies in which school teachers have been portrayed as decent and hard-working, even heroic. Just a handful that come to... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Feb 20, 2009)
As I sit here, the Obama administration is less than a month old and, quite honestly, it’s really no worse than I imagined it would be. But please keep in mind that I... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Feb 16, 2009)
Members of the Mafia have to take a vow of silence, and if they break it, they face the very real possibility of winding up dead. Liberals have their own version of the... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Feb 13, 2009)
When I was very young, people were accustomed to saying that the only two certainties were death and taxes. Over the years, there’s a third item that could be added to the... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Feb 09, 2009)
Once upon a time there was a blacklist in Hollywood. Liberals still refer to it as McCarthyism, but they can’t even get that right. Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator and... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Feb 06, 2009)
Lately, it seems every time I turn around I hear about some politician or bureaucrat who is absolutely indispensable. As often as not, these people are talking about... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Feb 02, 2009)
This morning, my hometown newspaper, the L.A. Times, carried the headline “Fixes in Jessica’s Law Are Urged.” The sub-head read: “Tight residency curbs on sex offenders... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 30, 2009)
It wasn’t that long ago that my friend Bernard Goldberg told me he was never going to write another book. It was just a lot of hard work, he complained, and while he was... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 26, 2009)
Human beings like to believe they’re totally rational creatures. To take an extreme example, atheists are convinced they can prove that God doesn’t exist. This is a... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 23, 2009)
I have written with an air of despondency about the bleak future I see for conservatism in America. For one thing, Obama won the election by capturing the votes of virtually... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 19, 2009)
I’m sure that most of us have heard the inspiring story of the Boston Tea Party. At least when I was in school, they were still relating the tale of a handful of American... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 16, 2009)
Recently, I noticed a similarity between atheists and homosexuals that hadn’t occurred to me before. It has to do with the way they wage their wars. Basically, they erect... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 12, 2009)
Near the end of 2008, I appeared on a radio show when my friend Mark Isler substituted for the vacationing Hugh Hewitt. At one point, Mark asked the listening audience to... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 09, 2009)
Just for the record, I am a non-observant Jew. That means that my mother’s father, Max Lashevsky, who kept kosher and attended an orthodox synagogue every day of his life,... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 05, 2009)
In high school, pretty girls and even those who are only so-so in the looks department will sometimes surround themselves with unattractive acolytes because they wind up... more
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Burt Prelutsky (Jan 02, 2009)
This is the time of year when the studios send DVDs of their movies to the members of the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild and, in my case, the Writers Guild. It’s... more