A.M. Siriano column
A. M. Siriano is a blogger, poet, humorist and webmaster, and writes daily for amsiriano.com.
A.M. Siriano
December 29, 2008
My new year's resolutions are generally doable, but there have been exceptions: In the third grade, I resolved to write numbers until I reached a million. . . .
A.M. Siriano
November 14, 2008
In the aftermath of another political smackdown, Republicans can still be very positive about the future of conservatism. We have an opportunity before us to . . .
A.M. Siriano
November 6, 2008
On election day it occurred to me that one good thing about the prospect of Barack Obama in the White House was its answer to my curiosity. Fearing what . . .
A.M. Siriano
February 22, 2006
I have been unwavering in my support of President Bush, even siding to some degree with him on his much hated immigration policies. Consequently, a number of . . .
A.M. Siriano
February 15, 2006
Legendary radio commentator and writer, Barry Farber, in a recent editorial called "12th Century Thinking," asks an important question:
"We had proven white . . .
A.M. Siriano
January 2, 2006
"Now is the time for us to respond with a force equal to that of Hurricane Katrina."
So said Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md), a prominent member of the . . .
A.M. Siriano
December 13, 2005
I frequently meet conservatives who tell me they were former liberals who discovered, often unwittingly, that they had become something better. To some, coming . . .
A.M. Siriano
December 7, 2005
It's true. I'm not being facetious. Often I find myself fighting the urge to become a Democrat — and I'm not talking about becoming the next Joe Lieberman, . . .
A.M. Siriano
November 27, 2005
In a very telling letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Howard of "Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions," begs for clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, . . .
A.M. Siriano
November 21, 2005
Her motives are clear: to get the truth out, to make sure people never forget, to hold a sexual predator and his accomplices accountable for their crimes, to . . .
A.M. Siriano
October 24, 2005
It wasn't very long after Robert Bork was demonized by the Dems and summarily sent to the farthest reaches of outer political darkness (in their eyes), that his . . .
A.M. Siriano
October 16, 2005
It came as no surprise to me that columnist Dick Morris, in a recent editorial,* urged President Bush to go with the "coming green revolution," but also no big . . .
A.M. Siriano
September 29, 2005
After reading that Simon Wiesenthal had died, I decided to ask my teenage daughters if they had heard of him. I knew, of course, what the answer would be: no. . . .
A.M. Siriano
September 26, 2005
On Thursday, September 22, Katharine DeBrecht's children's book, Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!, available only two days before from World Ahead . . .
A.M. Siriano
September 10, 2005
The smoke at Ground Zero had not yet dissipated into the New York sky when the world, including most of the liberals in our own land, started their shrill . . .
A.M. Siriano
June 13, 2005
Every historical period must have an appellation, a title that quickly recalls the nature of the times, that defines the era. Ours is no exception.
Many have . . .
A.M. Siriano
June 2, 2005
So now we have it: the mystery solved, the real "Deep Throat," one W. Mark Felt — stoolie, turncoat, perhaps outright traitor, and, as Ben Stein has . . .
A.M. Siriano
May 27, 2005
William Saletan of Slate, in a recent article called "For the Benefit of Others," sees a contradiction in President Bush's promise to veto embryonic stem-cell . . .
A.M. Siriano
May 7, 2005
Many right-wingers I know can't stomach Jon Stewart, and I don't blame them for that, but I am more than happy to proclaim that I think this guy is extremely . . .
A.M. Siriano
April 3, 2005
As I watched the sudden shift in the news from the death of Terri Schindler to the death of Pope John Paul II, I had to wonder if the significance of the latter . . .
A.M. Siriano
March 3, 2005
Who is the chief concern of the American justice system, the criminal or the victim? To answer that, take the case of Christopher Simmons, a 17-year-old stoner . . .
A.M. Siriano
February 2, 2005
Liberals continue to hang on to the fantasy that the UN can solve all the problems of the world — if only that demon-spawn G.W. Bush would stop being so . . .
A.M. Siriano
January 30, 2005
The liberation of Iraq — a long, heroic quest that cannot be squelched by liberal losers and nadiric naysayers, is becoming a bona fide reality today, and I . . .
A.M. Siriano
January 27, 2005
As I drove home from Washington D.C. to Ohio on January 20, the words of George Walker Bush were fresh in my mind and remained so throughout the seven-hour trek . . .
A.M. Siriano
January 25, 2005
I really don't like Philip Pullman, author of the popular His Dark Materials trilogy, but not because I don't think he is a good writer. Pullman is the anti-C . . .
A.M. Siriano
December 27, 2004
If Kwanzaa is simply a celebration of African culture by people of African descent, I have no trouble with it. After all, the Greeks have their celebrations, . . .
A.M. Siriano
November 10, 2004
Reasons abound as to how President Bush pulled off his latest political triumph, this time earning him a mandate by winning both the electoral and popular vote, . . .
A.M. Siriano
October 21, 2004
It should not have shocked me to once again find myself countering a "Bush lied" polemic, but this time my opponent was a fellow conservative, albeit a rather . . .
A.M. Siriano
October 17, 2004
I used to be seriously worried that the Philosopher had gone the way of the Poet, sent to the hinterland, with his great works consigned to slush piles of human . . .
A.M. Siriano
October 1, 2004
Minutes after the first presidential debate in Coral Gables, Florida, Matt Drudge went live with this headline: "Let the spin begin!" The RNC went right to . . .
A.M. Siriano
September 28, 2004
I don't know why I wasn't called in by the 9/11 Commission, for I could have told them straight up why we were attacked. I need only have quoted my father, who . . .
A.M. Siriano
September 14, 2004
Ralph Nader is rarely allowed by the media to outline his political agenda, mostly because he has time only to answer the charge, "Isn't voting for you a . . .
A.M. Siriano
September 11, 2004
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was working in a Columbus, Ohio, office, struggling with some minor issue, when I received a call from my daughter, who . . .
A.M. Siriano
September 2, 2004
To conservatives, there is only one mystery more perplexing than Bill Clinton's annoying popularity: It is the left's fervent hatred for President Bush. The . . .
A.M. Siriano
August 16, 2004
Try as they might — and they have — Democrats are having a hard time pinning the Swift Boat Vets for Truth controversy on George Bush and the GOP. The GOP . . .
A.M. Siriano
August 11, 2004
Not long ago, the "strident" Ann Coulter squared off with Bill O'Reilly, a man who takes Fox's slogan, "fair and balanced," to heart. O'Reilly chided Coulter . . .
