Are they really bumblers? The opinion columns quiver with reproofs for maladroit handling of foreign policy by President Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Those who cherished foolish illusions that Obamas election presaged a substantive shift to the left in foreign policy fret about worrisome signs that this is not the case.

"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."

I am no pinnacle of humility, and I've learned my fair share of hard lessons from the camps of conceit. But I'm not sure the former Chicago politician occupying the White House ever has been by Chuck schooled with a primer on Norris the perils of pride. columnist I's one thing (though still distasteful) to be boastful in a sports or fighting ring; it's quite another in the Oval Office.

The headline read: "Survey: More Americans get news from internet than newspapers or radio." The fact that I read this story on CNN.com demonstrates its point exactly. The article goes on to state, "three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites."

Nothing more easily elicits roars of assent across a good slice of the political spectrum than the hoarse alarums that wave after wave of brown-skinned illegals continually flood across the border, plunging neighborhoods and whole cities into an inferno of crime, overwhelming cops and prosecutors, clogging the justice system, cramming the prisons.

Not surprisingly, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released last Friday revealed that 56 percent of Americans think the federal government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to their rights and freedoms.

I have been a runner for most of my life. As a child, it was due to playing other sports. I enthusiastically played soccer and baseball. Photos of an awkward looking kid playing tee-ball, and silly soccer team photos with players on one knee still occupy space in my mothers photo albums.

The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Dear Madam Secretary: I am writing in support of the International Rescue Committee report, Iraqi Refugees in the United States in Dire Straits. The government has a responsibility to serve refugees brought to our country for resettlement in a humane and fair way.

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009), in which Washington borrowed $862 billion on American taxpayers credit.

The American political system is nicely balanced so that certain foul deeds like throwing poor women off the welfare rolls, or cutting old peoples pensions are handed off to Democrats, who put on a better act, tears streaming down their faces as they protest that they must kill in order to be kind.

Four out of seven Forsyth County commissioners voted Monday to press forward with an appeal of a federal judges ruling that sectarian prayer at the opening of their meetings violates the First Amendment. Prior to the vote, commissioners heard from 10 citizens during a public hearing.

The proposed Land Development Ordinance is meant to streamline rezoning and modernize Greensboro with a measured increase in urban density, maintaining a tree canopy, giving public transit and pedestrians a nudge of support and better connecting streets.

We all wish former President Bill Clinton a quick recovery from the medical procedure in which two stents were inserted in by Chuck a single artery. Norris That, following columnist his 2004 quadruple bypass, when four arteries were 90 percent clogged.

Fifty years ago this month, history took a great leap forward. On Feb. 1, 1960, four black students from Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at a segregated lunch counter in Woolworths department store in Greensboro. The chairs were for whites.

I got in my truck for the ritual Sunday errands. The drive to the Laundromat seemed like any other at the end of the weekend, even with ice melting on the streets. I was thinking about writing this column on the joys of a recent snowboarding trip, or the whimsical eccentricities of morality as proffered by action movies.

Snow is falling as we drive into Park City. Could it be any more perfect? read the opening lines of my Sundance 2010 journal. Much to my chagrin, its the only line entered into the journal that was supposed to chronicle my eighth year working on what is widely considered Americas most prestigious film festival.

Justin Bieber is a 15-year-old teen idol and singing sensation. The pop star was one of the presenters at the 2010 Grammy Awards by Chuck and one of the 74 Norris music superstars columnist who remade the 25-year-old song We Are the World, and he just helped kick off the weekend events for the Super Bowl. MTV calls Justin one of the two biggest names in the pop-culture universe at the moment.

The Bibles had a rough time of it these past 40 years. In 1967 came Lynn White Jr.s famous essay The Historic Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, denouncing Gods okay to Adam on planetary pillage in Genesis: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion.

You can see how seriously Obama is taking the hot populist temper of the American people and their eagerness to strangle every banker with the entrails of every insurance executive.

A wave of nostalgia swept over my clouded mind and it meant (1) Ive grown too old. (2) Modern racing has grown too boring. What brought on the warm and fuzzy memories was a notice on the Indianapolis 500 website that five legendary names Emerson Fittipaldi, Tom Sneva, John Zink, Mark Donohue and Lindsey Hopkins were to be added to Auto Racing Hall of Fame.