Washington politics are beginning to look like a serial drama on TV. Every day brings a new conflict with power struggles and strategic ploys to rival any fictional episode of your favorite show....
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White Horses and Unicorns
Sometimes people can't separate their political ideologies from an objective analysis of what is happening. None of us is immune from the influence of our political leanings; so when I took a little heat a few weeks back...
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall…
It's been a little less than four years since the last presidential election. Who could forget the excitement and hyperbolic hysteria surrounding the election of our first black president? The sacrificial giving of so many who helped make it happen in...
Wisconsin, The War Before The War
The recall election occurring Tuesday in Wisconsin is being carefully observed because it is expected to be a microcosmic representation of what can be expected in the general election in November....
A House Divided
It's been an uneventful week on the national scene, so I'm pulling out my crystal ball to see if we can make some predictions about the future of the two parties' presidential campaigns....
Money For Nothing, Votes For Free
It's been said that "talk is cheap", but President Obama's simple statement regarding his endorsement of same sex marriage netted him over a million dollars in the 90 minutes that followed it, and probably an additional five million at the...
Flavors of Doomsday
Most futuristic science fiction tales predict a dismal and apocalyptic future that comes in two basic flavors. Either we can look toward a doomsday where corporate greed and/or military insanity has destroyed the environment and created a system of anarchy...
American Exceptionalism and the Seven Deadly Sins (Part Two)
In the precursor to this entry the concept of American exceptionalism was questioned. Some would say that it was never a valid belief to begin with, and others would hold that if our culture was ever exceptional in the world,...
American Exceptionalism and the Seven Deadly Sins (Part One)
A Pew research poll taken back in November revealed that when Americans were asked if they agreed with the statement "Our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others", only 49 percent agreed. In 2002 60...
From The School of Red Herrings
Thanks to Hilary Rosen we have discovered that this "War on Women" is even worse than we had first supposed. Her swipe at stay at home mom Ann Romney as 'never actually having worked a day in her life', has revealed...