May 19, 2013
6:20 p.m.
Most of us rabid political partisans, whether lefties or righties, take special pleasure in citing what we see as the excessive rhetoric of certain people on the other side of the spectrum.
And so it is with me when right-wingers like Republican State ...
May 19, 2013
6:20 p.m.
The RESULTS of a new CNN/ORC poll are mostly good news for President Obama.
The principal take-aways from this survey are these:
Fifty-three percent of Americans say they approve of the job the president is doing, with 45% saying they disapprove. The ...
May 19, 2013
6:20 p.m.
Stephanie Koontz, one of my favorite social historians, WARNS HERE about the potential pitfalls of nostalgia:
In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging u...
May 18, 2013
6:15 p.m.
Despite suggestions from such conservatives as Charles Krauthammer and Newt Gingrich to temper their rhetoric, more than a few Republicans these days are claiming that the so-called scandals that currently beset the Obama administration are the worst in...
May 18, 2013
12:21 p.m.
When U.S. Marines were shown providing umbrella coverage for President Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a Rose Garden news conference the other day (see top photo above), the right-wing noise machine went into high ...
May 18, 2013
12:21 p.m.
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, whose skillful way with words usually exceeds her grasp of the facts, waxed indignant the other day over four cases in which conservative activists were targeted for tax audits.
It’s a scandal, Noonan a...
May 17, 2013
6:16 p.m.
A Facebook friend of mine has dug up THIS WONDERFUL STORY from four years ago:
Bill Nye [above], the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentati...
May 17, 2013
6:16 p.m.
One morning back in 1977, I was having coffee with a certain prominent public official (an appointee, not a politician) whose judgment in most matters I usually respected.
Our conversation eventually turned to an upcoming local election, and this guy s...
May 17, 2013
6:16 p.m.
Most Americans are not following the controversies regarding the Internal Revenue Service and the Benghazi tragedy with especially intense interest, as we see HERE:
A majority of Americans are following both the controversy over the attack on the U.S. ...
May 17, 2013
6:16 p.m.
Ordinarily, I like to know what’s going on in the world. But I’m glad I didn’t know about THIS:
During 10 days in November 1983, the United States and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Newly declassified documents from th...