Jayne Lyn Stahl

Some say shoes make the man. To me, it's about character.

Lately, there have been noises from Democrats and Republicans alike opposing the president's recent diatribes on Bain Capital, and that company's business practices when Romney was at the helm. I say, they're overdue. Notably, the New York Times was...

Team Romney, and Republicans in general, are making a lot of noise about President Obama's record on the economy. Romney harps on what he calls the president's "failed" economic leadership. Since Romney wants to make 2012 a referendum on the Obama record, it might be instructive to take a look...

Whenever you hear Mitt Romney say President Obama is a failure when it comes to the economy, remember that in the first six months after the 2010 midterm election alone nearly 2 million jobs were lost due to GOP-backed legislation that passed the House.

Yes, 200 days after Senate...

These days, McDonald's Big Macs and McMansions aren't enough to satisfy the ever growing American appetite for new products, as well as bigger and better ones, and they may soon become among our leading exports. Iran is said to be copying a drone it captured last year.

The baffling, omnipresent high profile wife of Mitt Romney now says we don't know her husband. One wonders how well she knows him given that he changes his positions on issues about as often as he changes his socks.

Yes, Mrs. Romney says her husband isn't a stuffed shirt, and...

As a spunky thirty year old, I went to visit my dad in Boca Raton one summer, and perhaps for the shock value confided to him that I was writing pornography. My father wasn't easily shocked. He looked at me, and said simply, "There's lots of money in pornography."

And,...

Here we are almost a year away from the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima that happened as a result of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami on March 11th of last year, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announces that it is approving licenses to begin construction on the first nuclear power plants...

One can fake many things in life, even an orgasm, but one cannot fake military experience. Mitt Romney has never been in the military.

It was also true that a senator from Chicago, Barack Obama, who became a candidate for president had no military experience, but not anymore. Obama...

During a late afternoon walk this weekend, I saw a young mother walking brusquely with her two children, one of whom was wearing a winter jacket and hood. Well, I thought, I'm glad I'm not the only one cold enough to wear a hood. They were not a particularly distinctive...

Newt Gingrich's attack on what he calls "the elite media" during the South Carolina debate on Jan. 20 reminds me of another high profile Republican's invective against the major media, Spiro T. Agnew.

Spiro T. Agnew, you'll recall, was Richard Nixon's vice president, and it was one of Agnew's...

Here's a thought, now that the Citizens United ruling affirms corporate personhood, and the leading Republican of the litter declares that "corporations are people, too," why hasn't some enterprising free marketeer come up with condoms for corporations?

Sounds like a joke, right? Look at this headline from the Associated Press,...

President? Bah! After his performance in Saturday night's debate, Mitt Romney should enter a beauty contest as "Miss Congeniality" instead of trying to obtain his party's nomination.

Not only is his smile imperious, it is downright impervious. Romney gives a whole new meaning to the term self-possessed. The man is...

After a late start, I decided to venture out into the wilds of pre-Christmas traffic. Admittedly, doing just about anything, including washing the kitchen floor, holds more allure for me at this time of the year than shopping, but as a fortune cookie once wisely proclaimed, "You gotta do what...

To be frank, I was going to wait until former speaker, and current leading contender for the Oval Office, Newt Gingrich, was nominated to start this column, but what the hell.

Herman Cain has had his turn in the spotlight as has Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, so why...

Donald Trump appeared on CNN Thursday night, and said he represents "millions of people" in this country. What irony that the CEO of The Trump Organization, a man who Forbes now estimates to have a net worth of $2.9 billion, should make that pronouncement from the building he...

It sure looks like Joe Biden finally got his mojo back. Whatever mojo he had in the first place, that is. Don't get me wrong. I like Joe Biden, and always have. He's a straight shooter which is why he's totally miscast in his current role of Defense Department surrogate.

President Obama faces increased scrutiny over a solar energy company, Solyndra, that received half a billion dollars from the administration, only to go belly up months later. As Democracy Now suggests, Solyndra might find itself "a household name" in the 2012 election cycle, as well as an excuse...

Savor the irony of the second Republican 2012 presidential debate not only because it takes place in the Ronald Reagan Library, but because Reagan's economic policies are the best argument against the Republican Party platform today.

What, for the past few decades, has been loosely lumped under the heading...

Cyrus Vance, the Manhattan district attorney, had little choice but to drop the criminal charges against Dominique Strauss Kahn.

While there is no question that whatever happened in the Hotel Sofitel room that day included sex, there is reasonable doubt that force was involved, which is the maid's assertion,...

Think about it, what would the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, need for a winning ticket in the 2012 presidential race? As John F. Kennedy recognized back in 1960, whether you're a Democrat or Republican, it is hard to win any presidential race without a Southern stronghold like Texas....