Ron Mwangaguhunga

Is Donald Trump actually a human being?

It has been widely joked in certain media circles that Donald Trump is in fact a short-fingered vulgarian. I would endeavor to attempt to argue in this essay that Donald Trump is, in fact, a long-fingered, mischievous form of macaque intent...

Ron Paul's PAC recently started pushing the results of a commissioned poll saying that their man is now in the lead in the Iowa. In the poll, Paul has 22 percent of support among Iowans while Romney is at 17 percent in the Hawkeye state. Earlier this month

Over the years I have argued, strenuously, against the prevailing wind that blogs, the act of blogging and bloggers have never "died" a media death. Ironically, it is The Observer itself, which earlier in the year championed the idea of the death of blogging, that has...

Obama is not a radical, he is -- and always has been -- a political moderate. It is not inconceivable that the way in which our presidential campaigns are presently structured makes it impossible for a "radical" -- at least a progressive radical -- to ever be elected to the...

For someone who is so astonishingly good at making viral media magic, Congressman Weiner profoundly misread the social media tea leaves. Congressman Anthony Weiner should probably resign right about now, for the sake of his party, which is facing an uphill battle in the House next year. He ...

Robert Novak was a sour man. He had a fixation on three-piece suits and capital gains tax cuts. Novak often spat when he talked. He must have been thoroughly unpleasant company if you did not agree with him philosophically. These factors made him ripe for satire. Robert Novak looked and...

Air America radio host and attorney Ron Kuby had some advice for Ponz scum Bernie Madoff on his upcoming and personal "moist Oz-like scenario." We, too, have advice: get into solitary confinement, schnell! And stay away from the Nigerian with the little hat! Kuby's office has...

82-year old television host John McLaughlin appeared particularly off his political game this week. He stumbled, mistaking The Economist for an FT magazine to a puzzled-looking FT editor and panelist Chrystia Freeland. And there were many other verbal missteps, gaffes and woozy stumbles on the half-hour

On February 17 Mika Brzezinski spoke on the radio show she shares with Joe Scarborough of the headline on her interview with Leslie Stahl at WowoWow "Mika Brzezinski Tells Lesley Stahl: My Departure From CBS Was Pretty Ugly." Of the headline, Brzezinski said during the radio show: "I love...

NBC News Political Director Chuck Todd, the so-called goateed guru of politics was on C-Span's Washington Journal Sunday morning ahead of the talking head shows. He was, as usual, informative (why did the NBC suits give the MTP slot to David Gregory?). He spoke about Howard Dean, whom...

We've come to expect a certain amount of raw "manliness" from our American Presidents, but George W. Bush may have been the straw that broke the proverbially camel's back on the importance of that particular skillset. What is a President if he -- and invariably it has always been a...

Did Uganda have a space program? As someone born in the country during the tyranny of Idi Amin, I cannot put anything beyond Idi Amin's Daffy Duck logic, but I cannot remember any "Space Program." The so-called "Last King of Scotland, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth...

Wouldn't you have liked to have been a fly on the wall during the conversation at the Beijing Olympics between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Bush? While the specifics of the conversation remains tightly held between the two world leaders, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave a...

CBS' Bob Schieffer, talking about the historic nature of this Democrat National Convention to African-Americans on the Imus in the Morning Show, relayed an interesting tidbit about Bill Richardson and his former boss, Bill Clinton. You will recall that the 42nd President -- via surrogate James Carville --...

Perhaps not enough has been made of race factor in this election by the poobah's in The Chattering Classes (although some might argue otherwise). The cable TV newsers in particular have apparently bought in to that whole Pat Buchanan narrative that it is fear of the different -- those...

This blogger, sickened by Rush Limbaugh's noxious "Operation: Chaos," which may or may not have influenced the Texas primary (and quite possibly Ohio and Indiana) in favor of Senator Clinton -- and thus lengthening the Democratic primary process -- is fed up. We're mad as hell and not...

Jim Ward is the founder and President of Americans with Disability Act Watch and the National Coalition for Disability Rights. On July 26th, which should have been a day of celebration as it marks the 18th anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act, Ward had to deal with the fallout...

Let's face it: Al Gore was right about a great many things. Specifically, the former Vice President of the United States criticized America's overheated media coverage of "celebutards" as a national distraction. The fact that this criticism was coming from a man who gave up the presidency and founded a...