A.J. DiCintio column
A.J. DiCintio is a Featured Writer for The New Media Journal. He first exercised his polemical skills arguing with friends on the street corners of the working class neighborhood where he grew up. Retired from teaching, he now applies those skills, somewhat honed and polished by experience, to social/political affairs.
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July 31, 2010
Pity the perverse loves.
Why?
Well, while most of us agree with our ancestors, who, for millennia, recognized them as roots of iniquity, liberals and . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 25, 2010
This is what passes for intellectuality at the NYT these days:
. . . the N.A.A.C.P. scratched an old wound this week when it called on the Tea Party to expel . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 17, 2010
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 14, 2010
Paul Krugman has had all the advantages.
For example, he's a Yale man — Thurston Howell III's opinion about Yalies notwithstanding because among its other . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 4, 2010
After a number of delegates to the Continental Congress signed the Declaration on July 2, 1776, John Adams wrote to his wife that the day of the nation's birth . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 26, 2010
Every president should expect to be awakened with news that a volcano has blown a bit of hell into the sky, whether it's a volcano whose rumblings and foul . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 19, 2010
Americans who consider themselves Tea Party "members" or who find themselves in agreement with the Tea Party message have involved themselves in public affairs . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 12, 2010
. . . Former Obama White House Communications Director Anita Dunn refers to dictatorial maniac and mass murderer Mao Zedong as one of her "favorite political . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 5, 2010
For a host of reasons that are fundamental to why humans have organized themselves within secure borders for millennia, a nation of "open borders" is not long . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 27, 2010
Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petard. . .
[Therefore] I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them [to] . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 15, 2010
There is no doubt that Barack Obama's policies are driven by Madly Spend/Insanely Borrow Nanny State Syndrome, the same malady that threatens the life of Europe . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 8, 2010
Although I'm among the many people who have previously applied George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" (1946) to contemporary culture, I'm at it . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 2, 2010
So it has come to this regarding problems that pertain to our southern border and immigration:
Anyone who disagrees with Democratic/Liberal "solutions" to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 29, 2010
Late as we were and wanting to avoid losing time in traffic, we headed for the Metro at a Maryland stop, where we noticed a casually dressed middle-aged couple, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 21, 2010
If there is one thing about politics essential for every American to know — young people, especially — it is this:
In a masterpiece of the perverse work he . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 13, 2010
After the Obama administration leaked news it is preparing to sell the Citigroup stock the federal government acquired in exchange for bailing out the bank, it . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 7, 2010
Last June, when Barack Obama proposed to complete a de facto federal takeover of the U.S. healthcare system in three mere megalomaniacal months, the public . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 30, 2010
Then let them use us well: else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
He knew all too well, Shakespeare did, that aristocrats (of both . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 23, 2010
In the most recent act of a corrupt, unbelievably ugly drama, Obama and his congressional minions succeeded in buying off enough votes to send the abomination . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 16, 2010
The two thousand pages of hocus-pocus that is Barack Obama's dangerously ironic healthcare "reform" plan do nothing to solve the crucial problem of bringing . . .
A.J. DiCintio
March 9, 2010
President Obama and other liberal elites can lie until the limousines come home that the near landslide majority of Americans who reject Obamacare have been . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 27, 2010
The financial scandal in Greece proves once again that governmental financial elites are as much a gang of Wizard of Oz frauds as so many of Wall Street's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 18, 2010
As a result of the Dow Jones' recent tumble, a good number of Americans are aware that the debt, deficit, and budget problems of the PIGS have roiled markets . . .
A.J. DiCintio
February 6, 2010
Among the poems Emily Dickinson wrote under the heading "Life" is one about hope, which the poet imagines as a "little bird" that sings to her even "in the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 28, 2010
No one ought to express surprise that the result of the Massachusetts Senate race has not in the least shaken the faith of the American left, despite the fact . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 23, 2010
Suppose that a gang of thieves who had a long record of physically harming their victims not just by robbing them of their money and precious keepsakes but . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 19, 2010
The majority of Massachusetts voters usually vote blue; but as they have shown with their red votes over the years, they won't be told how to cast their ballots . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 14, 2010
From the moment news broke that the radical Islamist and al Qaeda terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had failed in his attempt to murder hundreds on Christmas . . .
A.J. DiCintio
January 5, 2010
Even though Max Baucus is a VIP in the plot to stab America in the back with the dagger euphemistically named the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 24, 2009
For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the Babe wrapped in . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 19, 2009
Catherine Rampell's NY Times article about the value added tax ("Many See the VAT Option as a Cure for Deficits") evokes a number of reactions, one of the most . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 12, 2009
In harmony with Christmas and Hanukkah and an assurance that only leftists will accuse me of giving a bad gift, I'm offering this piece-of-advice present — Read . . .
A.J. DiCintio
December 5, 2009
Thomas Friedman (NY Times) recently concluded the following about the substance and irony of the "narrative" that motivated the act of terror committed by Nidal . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 24, 2009
We can thank the Drudge Report for directing us to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's brief but extremely important piece whose title "The $100 Million Health . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 20, 2009
Two viruses caused the murders, wounds, and suffering at Fort Hood.
The first arises from the fact that although a capacity for evil is inherent in human . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 13, 2009
How would Jonathan Swift react to the inanities that for decades have issued from the minds and mouths of far too many recipients of a certain international . . .
A.J. DiCintio
November 7, 2009
As Tuesday's vote revealed, individualism is alive and well in the nation, one happy aspect of which is that most of us insist upon drawing our own conclusions . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 31, 2009
If we can correctly guess anything about the nature of the leftist mind, it's that its neurons, in varying degrees, are rife with chemicals that give rise to . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 23, 2009
Last weekend, the White House fired some of its biggest guns at Fox News. But tempted as we are, we cannot allow ourselves to speak of a war because the attack . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 17, 2009
Given all the hullabaloo directed at Senator Max Baucus as he and his Democratic allies anticipated cost estimates of his healthcare bill with the nervous . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 14, 2009
There's no arguing that congressional Democrats are smart not to put their healthcare bills online — After all, more than anyone else, they know that if people . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 8, 2009
It's all the rage these days for liberals to put on their makeup, make up a long face, and star in mini, moldy morality plays that warn of extremism, an evil . . .
A.J. DiCintio
October 1, 2009
Things are not going so well in Afghanistan, the amorphous, quasi-nation a Dutch NATO commander describes as making him feel he is "walking through the Old . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 25, 2009
Let's begin by defining epistemology simply as the branch of philosophy that asks this essential question about knowledge: "How do you know that?"
That job . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 19, 2009
A still-shocked Speaker Pelosi is absolutely right that the U.S. House of Representatives is in dire need of a good moral scouring. But she shouldn't go French . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 16, 2009
As the three of us drove to the nation's capital Saturday, the suggestion that we should have made a sign saying "I'd Rather Drink Tea Than Kool-Aid" had two of . . .
A.J. DiCintio
September 5, 2009
It's safe to say political analyst Norman Ornstein doesn't agree that President Obama's K-12 educational happening is shameful in every sense of the term, which . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 29, 2009
Regarding the current healthcare debate, it is inarguable that to cover the entirety of The Bad and The Ugly alone, one needs to write more pages than those . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 15, 2009
Ever since the "great" Karl Marx and Company proclaimed their superiority over all other social/political/economic thinkers because they claimed to have . . .
A.J. DiCintio
August 1, 2009
This past week both Frank Rich (NY Times) and Howard Kurtz (Washington Post) wrote columns about Walter Cronkite's contribution to television journalism. As one . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 25, 2009
We must believe in luck; for how else can we explain the success of those we dislike.
Guy de Blonay certainly knows that those who "dislike" Goldman Sachs . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 18, 2009
Paul Krugman is all in a worried sweat that America is "on its way to becoming a boiled frog" — that is, the mythical boiled frog that he correctly identifies . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 11, 2009
When Mark Twain set out to tell "the truth, mainly" about aristocrats, he did it this way:
"How much do a king git?"
"Get?" I says; "why, they get a . . .
A.J. DiCintio
July 4, 2009
For some inexplicable reason, Governor Mark Sanford feels a compulsion to keep his media confessional sessions going as hot and heavy as his illicit affairs, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 27, 2009
Soon after brave Iranians began putting their lives on the line for freedom, justice, and a better life, Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the violence by Iran's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 20, 2009
Today before Congress and before the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us. — MoveOn.org
Pick the Target, Freeze it, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 13, 2009
Let me be upfront about something right from the jump: This piece is in no way critical of the behavior some Indian citizens are directing toward a remarkable . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 10, 2009
As soon as the "activists" of the Warren Court made it clear that in liberal jurisprudence a judge's personal beliefs and empathies can trump even explicit . . .
A.J. DiCintio
June 3, 2009
Whether the object of their dictatorial pedantry is based upon what "empathic" judges, politicians, and social activists weave according to rules laid down by a . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 28, 2009
With its focus on the perversion of language, Part One warned of the dangers of Obama's national security policies.
Part Two turns to the threat Obama's . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 19, 2009
The poor canary: Blessed with a beautiful song, he is cursed by an extreme sensitivity to carbon monoxide.
So it was that coal miners carried him to work, . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 12, 2009
There is only this to say about how small Colin Powell came up when he recently criticized the Republican Party before a group of security executives:
It . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 7, 2009
When the financial and auto industries joined the mortgage business in being sickened by a virus composed exclusively of DNA from piggishly porcine VIP's of the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
May 2, 2009
"Since feeling is first," wrote e.e. cummings, one who "pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you." As it turns out, modern science . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 27, 2009
Unhappy truth that it is, the self-anointed intellectual giants called liberals never quit adding chapters to the book of their arrogant hypocrisy. Here are the . . .
A.J. DiCintio
April 23, 2009
I thought it an entirely good thing for the nation to catch glimpses of President Obama pulling weeds in the White House Vegetable Garden — until I realized . . .
