3/10/2010 10:00:00 PM Column: Call from Clinton the last thing Tiger needs
Argus Hamilton
HOLLYWOOD - God bless America, and how's everybody?
Golf World said Bill Clinton gave Tiger Woods a phone call of encouragement on Friday. The former president certainly has some experience in this to share with him. The best guess is that 42 days of rehab were just undone by one phone call.
The House Commerce Committee called for Toyota to come clean over its problems with its fuel injection and sticky accelerators. It's not a problem everywhere. In California, the Toyotas go so fast they are starting to cut into Porsche's market share.
Harrah's Casino estimated Friday that Americans will bet sixty billion dollars on the NCAA tournament. It includes legal bets in sports books and illegal office betting pools nationwide. The idea to teach children there is more to life than poker.
Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin agreed to appear on "The Secret Life of an American Teenager" on the ABC Family Network this year. She's going to talk about the cost of being a single mother. It cost her her senior year in high school, it cost John McCain the election and now it's going to cost the nation our free-market system.
General Motors announced last week they are closing the Hummer division. There is a mad scramble for Hummer's customer list. The male enhancement product company that gets that mailing list will rule the market for the next 20 years.
U.S. Rep. Eric Massa said Democrats ran him out of Congress because he is opposed to health care reform. He wanted to stay. He was accused of making sexual advances on a male staffer but it just wasn't enough to save his career in the Democratic Party.
The Treasury Department will give Ben Franklin a new look on the one-hundred dollar bill. He gets a facelift every two years to thwart counterfeiters. One more facelift and people are going to wonder why Bruce Jenner's on the hundred dollar bill.
The Academy Awards shocked critics with its conservative theme on Sunday. Best Picture Oscar went to a pro Iraq War movie, Best Actor was about a country singer and Best Actress about a Southern white family who adopts a black kid. The biggest shock of the night was when they gave the Lifetime Achievement Award to George W. Bush.
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