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 …
Category Archives: 2012 Campaign
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 …
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 …
State of the Union lost in spurious spin
Spurious spin, political prevarications, deliberate distortions, flagrant falsehoods, and plain ol’ outrageous whoppers. That aptly describes the state of our …
Truth telling from an unlikely source
The nation has been treated this week to a real-life illustration of Hans Christian Anderson’s tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” …
Logic disconnect yields dichotomies
Voting is a cherished right in America, and though many don’t exercise that right on a regular basis, it’s a …
It’s hard out here for a moderate
With the nation seemingly so divided between left-wing loons and right-wing whackos, it’s hard out here for a moderate. Moderates …
Ryan’s vision all wrong for America
This week, Congressman Paul Ryan decisively dashed Republican Party hopes with a firm “no” to a 2012 presidential race. America …
