(Originally published in City Link Magazine. You can read the full story here, which includes my list of 10 honorable mentions.)

As usual with my year-end Top 10s, I immediately threw out live albums and reissues. It's a weird rule, but I think that any album worthy of...

What the past several months have revealed, far more than the power of lobbyists (which we already knew) or the ability of senators to toss their ideology out the window for fun and profit (ditto), is the complete and total inability of the government to govern. Whatever your opinion of...

(The weekly Danation column is first published in City Link Magazine.)

Sometimes, focus on a particular ongoing news story comes and goes in waves. I first read of the plight of African albinos about a year ago, but the Associated Press did a story on them just...

So the Republican National Committee has a Facebook site. It's right here. That link leads you to the RNC Facebook home page, which features Republican heroes such as Jackie Robinson, the inclusion of whom made the entire "Republican heroes" bit a laughing stock when it was...

I tore my hair and beat my breast when I first heard the news. The people who delivered it to me fared little better. "The damage is done," lamented Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe.

"No," I gasped as I sat upright in bed, turning the volume up on...

I have a deep, dark secret to admit. I am a hopemonger. During the presidential primary one of the first things to sway me toward Obama (and I was on the Obama bus earlier than most, pretty much from the day the man announced his campaign) was the idea, espoused...

Per the American Heritage:
Terrorism: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence to intimidate or coerce societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

The news this morning that the Obama administration is finally considering seriously the process of budget reconciliation to...

Word just came down the wire that Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida, who had already announced that he wouldn't run for re-election, is stepping down early. My first reaction to this news was, WTF? It makes no sense. None at all. The senator offered the usual explanation for such...

Remember the Bush years? Yeah, yeah. I know -- you'd rather forget. But stay with me here, ace, because this is important. Throughout that post-9/11 Age of Darkness and Despair, a whole segment of the left wing slipped off the deep end and believed that the Bush administration caused 9/11....

Following yesterday's final confirmation of Al Franken as the new senator from Minnesota, thus ushering in the Al Franken Decade 20 years too late, all the talk on last night's political shows was of the magic number 60. Of course, multiple guests on all the cable talk channels were quick...

We've heard all the reasons, listed ad infinitum on Fox News and, particularly, at length on MSNBC's Morning Joe. Health care reform will cost too much. It will bankrupt the country. It will force government bureaucrats between patients and doctors -- as though this was somehow worse than our current...

My weekly newspaper columns are usually about local issues, but as this week's column had a national bent, I figured I'd post it here for all of you Huffers to enjoy.

We're nearing the July 4 holiday, so it's that time of year when decent, God-fearing, tax-paying...

Over on his Fix blog at the Washington Post, uber-political journalist Chris Cillizza has written that Obama's pick of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court reflects Obama's "supreme confidence that even a united GOP can't beat the White House." Cillizza is, all too often, right about just about everything,...

I have to say, I'm a bit shocked this hasn't received more play. But yesterday, Rep. Barbara Lee filed House Res. 383 -- The Lee Wexler Conyers Bill Establishing a Committee to Investigate Bush Admin Conduct. The full text of the resolution can be read at Rep. Robert Wexler's Web...

So, you've got a blue state represented by a Republican. Said Republican is old, and not as popular as he once was. Additionally, he faces a primary challenge that some polls say he will not survive, which would leave Democrats running against a far-right yahoo. So, what do...

Maybe it's because it just happened yesterday -- or maybe it's because all the national news networks are currently obsessed with SARS or Avian Flu or Mad Cow Disease or whatever the current potential pandemic that, like all the others, will surely result in the end of civilization as we...

It's a bit late to the party, I know, but what the heck. I figured that my column in this week's paper was worth posting, despite the HuffPo's horde of tea party reporters. Enjoy!

The Fort Lauderdale brand of the nationwide tea parties took place in front of...

In his latest move to become the Savior of the Republican Party (expect him to come riding into D.C. on a white horse sometime in the summer of 2011), Newt Gingrich has announced that the GOP needs to get its act together, or true conservatives may go third party...

When Barack Obama was first elected, he immediately began his straight-to-the-people, end-run-around-the-press style of Q&A by encouraging people to ask questions at Change.gov. One's fellow citizens could then vote throughout Nov. and the first part of Dec. 2008 on their favorite questions, and Obama's people would answer the most popular....

Currently, the lead story on Huffington Post's main page is entitled "Boss Battle." It links to an interesting, pot-stirring story by the HuffPo's own Arthur Delaney about Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele saying that he is the de facto leader of the Republican Party, not "entertainer" Rush Limbaugh....