Burt Prelutsky « Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy

Anything You Can Do, They Can Do Better

By Burt Prelutsky, on May 2nd, 2005

I’d like to be around some day when a football coach shows up at a CPA’s office and ridicules the way the guy figures out deductions.

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Moms Make Lousy Dads

By Burt Prelutsky, on April 26th, 2005

For all their professional advances, there are still a few things that women simply can’t do as well as men.

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Straight Talk About Talk Show Hosts

By Burt Prelutsky, on April 21st, 2005

Burt Prelutsky on Michael Medved, Al Rantel, Ronn Owens, Dennis Prager, and the whole gang of conservative talk show hosts.

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Social Insecurity

By Burt Prelutsky, on April 12th, 2005

I suspect that if the federal government stopped taxing people to death to finance the Social Security bureaucracy, people just might be able to take care of themselves, just like grown-ups.

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Happy Cesar Chavez Day

By Burt Prelutsky, on March 31st, 2005

State offices in California close today for the observance of Cesar Chavez Day.

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A Career With a Future

By Burt Prelutsky, on March 21st, 2005

Had I only known way back then what I know now, I’d have become a dictator.

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In This Corner, Wearing Brass Knuckles, Susan Estrich

By Burt Prelutsky, on March 15th, 2005

Susan Estrich recently declared a jihad against the Times because she decided that they don’t publish nearly enough female columnists.

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Diversity, Schmiversity

By Burt Prelutsky, on March 9th, 2005

In spite of the fact that we were all Caucasians, all of us in our fifties, and all of us TV writers, we were as different as a random group of five adult Americans is likely to be.

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Thank You, Andrew Carnegie

By Burt Prelutsky, on March 4th, 2005

A part of Andrew Carnegie’s generous legacy was the endowment of nearly 3,000 libraries across the United States.

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Close the Border, Mr. President

By Burt Prelutsky, on February 22nd, 2005

With something like twelve million illegal aliens already in the United States, how is it we don’t already have sufficient numbers to change our sheets, bus our tables and pick our lettuce?

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The Flag and I

By Burt Prelutsky, on January 14th, 2005

In the days and weeks following 9/11, friends and neighbors saw the American flag flying by my front door and assumed it was in remembrance of the people murdered by Islamic terrorists.

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