If Mitt Romney was ever worried about Newt Gingrich's momentary resurgence as a popular GOP presidential candidate, he shouldn't have been. As many polls now indicate, the sun will come out tomorrow for Romney in the Sunshine State, with a solid victory over Gingrich that will give him the permanent...

Even while many polls show Newt Gingrich ahead of the pack among GOP Presidential hopefuls, barring the revelation of a love child, it is very likely that Mitt Romney will ultimately win the nomination. The reason is simple. He is the most boring, and that makes him the safest and...

Like a loud and mighty rocket with insufficient power to break free of the earth's gravitational pull, Occupy Wall Street struggles to reach escape velocity, but keeps falling back to earth. The reason, ironically, is on the movement's own "unofficial" website, where it defines itself as a leaderless...

In the annals of American pop music, no human being is more passionately hated by critics and fans alike than Yoko Ono, wife of the late Beatles John Lennon. More than 40 years after the band's break-up, she continues to draw the kind of venomous and...

If you're a woman, the abrupt dismissal of all rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn has got to frighten you a little. The implications seem to be that it is illegal to rape an honest woman, but it's okay to rape a woman who has credibility issues.

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The Anthony Weiner sex scandal reveals why American politics is riddled with mediocrity. We live in a society so obsessed with uncovering the secret lives of public figures -- and holding them to absurdly unrealistic moral standards -- that only the naïvely optimistic, the mediocre, the hypocrite, the criminal or...

The tragic death in Libya of photographers Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, caught in the middle of a rocket attack by Moammar Gaddafi forces, is the latest in a series of dangerous encounters by American journalists plunging head-long into the chaos and perils of conflict in the Middle...

"For displaying a stunning disregard for the dangerous consequences of her words and actions in her blind pursuit of wealth and power; for taking pride in being the cause of any controversy she incites, even if it sets back by decades important social progress, plants the seeds of a bloody...

In recent weeks, radio DJ Howard Stern seems like a man holding back a smoldering fire. With his five-year contract with Sirius XM expiring at the end of the year, he finds it inconceivable that the company he almost single-handedly rescued from near extinction should now consider him expendable.

Symbols are the greatest driving force behind human behavior. Throughout history, entire cultures, nations and races of people have chosen to die rather than surrender their symbols, even when those symbols were embodied merely in a single word.

In the movement to legalize same-sex marriages in the United States,...

When the history of Apple is written, co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs will rightfully be credited as the driving force behind the company's spectacular success, but he may also prove to be the cause of the company's ultimate failure.

Few other technology brands are as closely associated with its creator...

Suppose you gave a revolution and nobody came? The raucous and rabble-rousing demonstrations of the Tea Party movement certainly make one wonder whether, out of the belly of a frustrated America, there has emerged a great new political force. Early on, it has proven capable of making stars out of...

Does anyone still have any doubts that Democrats' health care reform bill will pass? As the day of reckoning draws near, national headlines have shifted from, "Democrats Face Uphill Battle," to "House Dems on Track for Vote." At this point, it's clearer than ever before that passage of the bill...

The phenomenon that is Sarah Palin seems to be gathering momentum like a runaway train. Mortified Democrats hope she's a runaway train wreck. But Palin's fanatical supporters are convinced she is simply getting to the White House that much faster.

She has made enough mind-boggling public gaffes to sink twenty...

The tone of helplessness in America's anti-war movement of the Sixties, embodied in the young protesters' lament that they were "old enough to kill, but not to vote" -- has permanently been silenced by the social media revolution. In fact, the physical act of voting has become almost irrelevant in...

What magic spell has Sarah Palin cast over John McCain? Since bringing her on board as his vice presidential running mate on that fateful summer night in August 2008, he has been like a man possessed. He has repeatedly cast aside every last vestige of personal dignity and professional credibility...

Someday, in the not too distant future, the world will look back and laugh at the insanity that was the Sarah Palin saga. It will wonder what possessed American people and the media to take her seriously -- on a private, political or even religious level -- when she obviously...

For a man who almost single-handedly revolutionized the broadcasting industry and profoundly influenced modern American pop culture, radio personality Howard Stern continues to be spectacularly disrespected by his own colleagues and the media itself that he so radically transformed.

While personalities like Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen popularized radio...

It seems New York City's uneventful mayoral race is putting even Controller Bill Thompson to sleep. He's supposed to be Mike Bloomberg's Democratic challenger, but throughout the campaign, he has kept a relatively low profile and allowed Bloomberg do all the talking. As a result, most voters are still hard-pressed...

Barack Obama's stunning victory to become the first President of color in the United States often obscures the sobering reality of the staggering number of people who voted against him. It is important to remember that, while 69 million people supported his agenda, nearly 60 million others did not.