I always first think of a headline that sums up the theme of my blog. But I could not decide on a good header for my analysis of the first state visit...
I was taken aback when a CNN commentator conjectured that New Orleans residents are now looking for their "Pound of flesh." Our diaspora is not Shakespeare's Shylock character.
Of the early contenders for the Republican nomination, five outright deny or question climate science, while the remaining three are opposed to all meaningful action.
In the vast wasteland that is the 2012 GOP presidential landscape, fresh-faced stars join seasoned statesman to creat...
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, ...
We need a broad coalition to immediately repeal the insurance industry's exemption from complying with Federal anti-trust laws.
CNN and MSNBC are spending much of today focused on the 60,000 abandoned homes, the levees only one third of the way into readiness for a 100-year flood and more than 100,000 former residents not in New Orleans.
When I was a teenager, I overcame my Hindu upbringing to become a Catholic. Jesus spoke to me and told me Vishnu doesn't vote.
All but three Republicans voted against the stimulus, yet they all are gladly taking the money. Seeing a trend here?
The position of many health reform opponents in Congress is that America has "the finest health care in the world now." I decided to look at just how well we are doing health care wise.
Fear, not surprisingly, has remained one of the key tenets of the Republican message during Obama's presidency.
We are either going to get no health care reform or watered-down health care legislation that acts as a bandage, helping some people but ignoring the larger problem creating the pain.
Clearly other options she is looking to explore/Maybe she'll join Bristol on her abstinence tour/Or take a class in geography/Then tell us what other places she can see.
Palin must assume the pitfalls of "movement" candidacies, running for the nation's highest office on the basis of lofty ideals and downplaying the importance of tried-and-true experience.
Government-run health care is only one thing we Americans can learn from Canada and its "left-leaning" political leaders.
The fight over the Republican primary in Florida is shaping up to be the main-ring event in the GOP's version of the intraparty struggle next year.
The vacuum left by former clown-in-chief George W. Bush, ably lead by sinister foil Dick Cheney, has spawned an entire army of wanna-be Bushes: the ni...
Sarah Palin has found herself painted into a shrinking political corner in which she finds herself at odds with just about every interest group in Alaska -- Democrats and Republicans alike.
Simply rebranding the Republican Party by somehow updating its image, with apologies to Sarah Palin, really is putting lipstick on a pig. Their problems go much deeper than that.
The GOP's leaders and their inactions have placed the party at the corner of Unpopular and Nowhere.
I'm reasonably certain that historians will peg the legacy of the president's first 100 days based partly upon this contrast between the crazy and the calm.
