Before the final results for the Iowa caucus were fully tabulated, Rick Santorum delivered what I felt was an effective speech, a speech that plays very well with middle class Americans.

A Rick Santorum candidacy would be a family values candidacy. The family unit is extremely important to...

As the police have been dismantling some Occupy encampments around the country and our nation's consciousness of the movement wanes as we move into the holiday season it may seem a little odd to contemplate whether or not the Occupy movement has made gains or perhaps even to...

Governor Perry has been extremely busy trying to regain traction for his campaign that his own ineptness has derailed. His recent flurry of activity does indeed bolster his assertion that he is not nearly as smart as our current president. Point scored, governor.

After Rep. Steny Hoyer criticized Perry's plan...

In poll results from CBS News released earlier this month 57% of Americans feel that we should not be fighting the war in Afghanistan. When asked, "How much longer would you be willing to have large numbers of U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan?" 38% of those polled responded...

It has become a popular refrain among the religious right that all of our nation's problems exist because there is not enough Christianity in our government and in our schools. If we were only to mandate prayer in schools and arm our teachers with Bibles then certainly all that ails...

While we wait with bated breath for Sarah Palin to inform us of her plans for 2012, we can only speculate about her intentions. Actually, we can speculate or we can hang out on Facebook all day and wait for the former Governor of Alaska to post a...

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is Lewis Carroll's sequel to Alice in Wonderland. In the past people commonly referred to a mirror as a looking glass. Carroll used several methods to make the sequel to the classic a mirror image of Wonderland.

Today when we use the...

Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich enjoys a 36 percent approval rating. The only other governor with a lower approval rating is Republican Rick Scott of Florida.

Although I do not live in Ohio, I live close enough that my news is Ohio's news. I get to see a great deal,...

We need jobs. That actually is an understatement. We desperately need jobs would be more accurate.

In Democratic circles, one part of the remedy to what ails us is investment in our infrastructure. We have crumbling roads, questionable bridges, outdated airports, aging schools, and really, really slow trains.

Yes, the unemployment numbers are bleak and yes the overseas markets are in a state of turmoil. Both of these facts have surely had a negative effect on the New York Stock Exchange.

I fear this is not the only factor. The brutal ugliness of the entire debt ceiling negotiations...

By now it is apparent to everyone that Speaker John Boehner has little control over both his tears and his caucus in the House.

Instead of passing his debt ceiling bill Thursday night, Congress instead undertook the task of naming Post Offices. This fact is much...

Mitch McConnell's plan B approach for "allowing" President Obama to raise the debt ceiling and do the one thing that must be done to avert financial calamity is an indication that the Republican Party has painted themselves in a corner.

If you will allow me to reference another cliché, the...

The state shutdown in Minnesota brought upon by the lack of a budget agreement between Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and Republican legislators only slightly illustrates some of the adverse effects that United States citizens would suffer if the federal government shuts down.

What is the point of contention? The Democratic...

For certain elements of society the word liberal has become interchangeable with such words as communist, socialist and fascist.

While liberals such as myself choose to associate themselves with such historic figures as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, those same elements of society would...

... and it is a war we have grown very weary of. A war that I suspect has little more import in most people's lives than Monday night's reality show. This reality show too often ends, not in delivery of a rose or a contestant being sent home amidst a...