When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy, and a search for mental defect. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything that it can to shout "TERRORISM" without really saying it.

Sadly, in...

George W. Bush was a pro-media president. You wouldn't think so, from the way that he head-locked the press, cherry-picked crowds for public events, and limited his press conferences to near-zero for years.

He was a figure though, that media wags could sink their teeth into, sometimes literally. The...

We all hailed the election of Barack Obama as a massive victory for Democracy. He rode in on the coattails of small givers, with very few, loosely associated big special interests. He did not take money from their lobbyists.

The problem now, for President Obama, is that none of...

Let us finally put to rest one myth: Ted Williams was not frozen by his evil son, John Henry Williams.

That is a bit of lore cooked up by the sports media that was marching behind Sport Illustrated's Tom Verducci back in the day with their pitchforks and torches.

Opinion: Commissioner Allan Huber (Bud) Selig should resign. This isn't the first time anyone has said that, but, in the wake of a drug-suspension-shaving scandal that we uncovered at MLN Sports over the last 2-1/2 months, I am hoping that it will be the last.

As we reported in our...

Are we seeing the dividends of John McCain's 11th hour attempt to use white fear and anger to launch himself into the Oval Office?

The "Taxpayer March" that is expected to draw between 2,000 and 200,000 people to the streets of Washington, D.C. represents a hodge-podge of interests from...

Last night, we saw the definition of true centrist leadership. President Obama used the power of his office, and the perfect forum of the halls of legislative power, both to make his case to the American people, and to prove to voters that the adults were still in charge of...

Just when you thought that Fox News could not try harder to divorce themselves from any shred of credibility as a news organization, comes the latest amplification of hate speech against President Obama. Apparently the President of the United States of America is not fit to speak to our kids...

Obama is a fascist, socialist, commie pervert who will spread Nazistic Communist Socialism throughout America by way of his black helicopters on loan from the UN and he is not really the president, being a foreigner and all, now is he?

Health care is the first major test of...

I stood outside of a town hall meeting the other day to interview people who had participated and recorded this really amazing interview with one of the more influential speakers on health care reform.

Me: "Hello, may I stop you for a... yes, please. I'm doing a follow-up to the...

In the last part of Congress on Sale! we look at those representatives who take little or no special interest money from groups and high-dollar individuals in the health care reform debate. Ron Paul ($3,000) or Rep. Dennis Kucinich ($1,250) will be more independent voices.

While they land on either...

Unlike those Congresspeople in Part IV, these Representatives take modest $10,000 to $25,000 from health-care-related special interests. This and the final group are really as interesting as the ones who take millions, because they will weigh into the debate on the health care reform bill largely with the input...

In this chapter, we meet politicians who take is between $25,000 and $50,000 of special interest money per official from a source with a health care focus. It includes some familiar names, and the many of the more well-heeled Blue Dog Democrats in the House.

In Part III you...

Wrangling Cash Cows

In the final days before a vote on health care reform it is important to know who all of the players are in the debate.

As I pointed out in Part I more than $80 million dollars which individuals, industries and PACs with a health...

The majority of the United States Congress takes money from one or more special interests weighing in heavily on the health care reform bill. In Part One, I showed you the multi-million dollar players down to the mid six figures. In Part II, we look at the mid-six figure...

If money talks, it is positively screaming in the health care debate. $80,831,142.00 in political contributions from individuals, industries, and political action committees from the insurance, big pharma, hospitals and health professionals on one side to retirees on the other, have contributed heavily in this election cycle to make sure...

Is there a First Amendment right to cover sports news?

American sports do not seem like the place for a show-down on the freedom of the press, but that is exactly why the unraveling of the First Amendment began there. Media purists from the "real" news side did not see...

As the debate about putting a safety net national health plan rages on, and the focus is on the tennis match between the Obama Administration and the millions that the insurance industry is lavishing on the Congress to buy votes, er, persuade effectively, why can we not do something much...

I really do not want to hear ANYONE from the cushy private boxes to the bleachers complain about steroid use in the professional game of baseball anymore.

Minor league fans have just affirmed what the owners of baseball know: You run your mouths about steroids, but the minute...

They were in the streets of Tehran shouting "Death to the coup d'état! Death to the dictator!"

It was the angry backlash of the young, the optimistic, the moderate religious and secular political believers in something better for Iran.

The government clearly and publicly humiliated them last week, with the...