The big fail: Rubio disappoints, reverts to partisan talking points
Marco Rubio’s response to the President’s State of the Union speech was one big fail — and not because he …
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Junk news on demand, 24/7
Reblogged from Common Sense and Candor: I am a news junkie, I admit it. The problem with being a news …
Great Recession accelerates income inequality
You may have missed a report issued this week by the Federal Reserve. The report is issued every three years …
Machiavellian purpose to political silly season
We are now firmly ensconced in, as someone else aptly named it, the political silly season. In actuality, the adjective …
Distorted news = distorted thinking
Sharing a link to a piece on calbuzz.com, a sometimes tongue-in-cheek insider look at politics in the Golden State. If …
Romney, women, and the nonsense of one inartful comment
Oh for goodness sake, now we’re off on a ludicrous tangent about whether Ann Romney, wife of Mitt, has “worked …
Biases rule our public discourse
There are times I wonder if a significant chunk of Americans have pressed the off button on their critical thinking …
Lunacy, not loose lips, sinks ships
Just read Walter Shapiro’s piece, “Let Santorum be Santorum! Why honesty beats robotic-message discipline: Character Sketch” (http://tinyurl.com/Shapiro-Santorum) In it, Shapiro …
No news is not good news
It’s official. There are no 24-hour broadcast news channels anymore. They’ve all evolved, or devolved, into all-talk, all-the-time, with more …
Santorum wages war against women, religious freedom
It must seem almost quaint now, that 50 years ago then-presidential candidate John F. Kennedy Jr. delivered a major speech …
