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Marta H. Mossburg

Marta H. Mossburg writes frequently about national affairs and about Maryland, where she lives. Write her at marta@martamossburg.com. Follow her on Twitter at @mmossburg.

Most Recent Articles by Marta H. Mossburg:



Dennis Rodman and the dictator

The friendship former NBA player Dennis Rodman has with North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un is not as bizarre as commentators suggest.
- Thursday, January 16, 2014

The moral evolution of progressives

Boy, have progressives “evolved.” The party of saloon protesters, suffragettes and crusaders against smoking, prostitution and immigration are now the champions of government-regulated vice.
- Thursday, January 9, 2014

Messaging versus reality

I hope “messaging” dies in 2014. It is rotting the country from the inside out like an ambrosia beetle whose name is so sweet but ultimately kills the trees it invades.
- Thursday, January 2, 2014

Good-bye 2013, we won’t miss you

If 2013 were a beauty pageant, it would be the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest. If it were a movie, it would be “Titanic.” If it were a song, it would be “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus.
- Thursday, December 26, 2013

Happy Holidays from Kim Kardashian!

Satire Dear Family, Friends and Followers, I hope you are all having a festive and magical holiday season! As I sit here with a steaming cup of Starbuck’s Reserve Finca Nuevo from Mexico wrapped up in a cozy Restoration Hardware faux-fur arctic fox throw (and not much else!) on my Williams-Sonoma Beverly sofa with baby North, I am feeling so #blessed. And just to be clear, I did NOT wax her eyebrows, contrary to reports.
- Thursday, December 19, 2013

On selfies and Shackleton

Leadership can mean many things to many people. But it’s absence is obvious, as it was with President Barack Obama, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and British Prime Minister David Cameron snapping a “selfie” Tuesday like teenagers at a rock concert and not dignitaries celebrating the life of former South African president Nelson Mandela at his funeral. His funeral.
- Thursday, December 12, 2013


Common Core-uption

Arne Duncan finds it “fascinating” that opposition to new Common Core education standards throughout the U.S. is coming from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were.”
- Thursday, November 21, 2013

Some things you might have missed

The media is consumed as it should be by the massive failure that is HealthCare.gov and the hundreds of thousands of people throughout the United States losing health insurance as a result of ObamaCare. But there are a few other stories that shouldn’t be lost in the shuffle. Here are two:
- Thursday, October 31, 2013

‘Security theatre’ at the NFL

Until last weekend, I was unaware of the NFL’s new purse policy, which as of this season bans a bag larger than a hand except for slightly larger clear plastic bags or Ziploc-like pouches.
- Friday, September 27, 2013

Before and after Kermit Gosnell

Twenty years from now I’m betting historians will look back and classify the modern abortion debate into two time periods: before Kermit Gosnell and after.
- Thursday, June 20, 2013


The demise of evil

Evil should not surprise Americans. We’ve seen it so many times and in so many degrees and variations – in those who tolerated some people having to sit in the back of the bus, in children who torment animals, in bankers who knowingly sold junk financial products and helped to destroy the economy and in men who set bombs in front of innocent bystanders at a marathon. The list is almost endless for those who look.
- Wednesday, April 24, 2013


The ‘Jeopardy!’ Paradox

Those who watch “Jeopardy!” know the guests tend to be slightly odd by modern standards.
- Saturday, April 13, 2013


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