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Burt Prelutsky has been a humor columnist for the L.A. Times, a movie critic for Los Angeles magazine and a freelance writer for TV Guide, Modern Maturity, the New York Times and Sports Illustrated. His latest book is entitled ""Barack Obama, You're Fired! (And Don't Bother Asking for a Recommendation)."
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Why Americans run for Congress

by Burt Prelutsky -- Recently, a reader wrote to ask me why anyone would spend a million dollars to become a member of Congress, a job that pays less than $200,000 a more…

Why oppose Obama? Let me count the ways

by Burt Prelutsky -- Apparently the Obama family holiday in the islands will run us taxpayers $4,113,038, and that's not counting snow cones, leis, surfboard rentals and assorted Hawaiian souvenirs. Still, it's more…

Reading political tea leaves

by Burt Prelutsky -- When I see all the infighting taking place in the ranks of the GOP, I find myself hoping that by the time we finally get through the primaries more…

Critiquing the Sioux City debate

by Burt Prelutsky -- In a way, it's rather admirable that Ron Paul sticks to his guns when everyone knows that his ostrich-like response to a nuclear Iran positively guarantees that he more…

The Christmas grinch revisited

by Burt Prelutsky -- Nothing I have ever written has provoked as huge a response as a piece I wrote some years ago called "The Jewish Grinch That Stole Christmas." In the more…

Don't look for Saint Burt bobbleheads!

by Burt Prelutsky -- Recently, in writing an article in which I was bemoaning all the tax dollars Obama blew on Solyndra, I typed $500 "billion" before I realized I had meant more…

Logic: Even rarer than shovel-ready jobs

by Burt Prelutsky -- The only thing in shorter supply in America than jobs, shovel-ready or otherwise, is logic. And with most liberal arts professors taking their lead from Saul Alinsky and more…

Corruption in America

by Burt Prelutsky -- By now I'm sure that even people who have less interest in college football than I, if such a thing is possible, are aware of the sex scandal more…

Quo vadis, Herman Cain?

by Burt Prelutsky -- With 1 percent of Americans paying most of the income taxes in America, while 47 percent pay nothing, it figures that Democrats would decide that the fair thing more…