On Food, and What it May Constitute
Pizza, says Congress, is a vegetable. Pepper spray, says Fox News host Megyn Kelly, is a food product. The expanding definition of the word “food” never ceases to amaze me.[...]
Category: Monday Monday
The Word of the Week is “Scandal”
Over the last few months, a number of upstart movements and candidates have dominated polls and news coverage by being both radical and a bit less than controlled. Now, seemingly[...]
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In Playing Conventional Politics, Mitt Romney is Alone
There’s long been a chasm between both the behavior and politics of Mitt Romney and the Republican’s “flavor of the week,” to quote Herman Cain. But while past short-time front[...]
You Have Our Attention, Now Stop Pooping on Things
If you were to ask the protesters at the Occupy Wall Street movement, they represent 99 percent of Americans. But various reports and polls–not to mention their behavior–have said quite[...]
Herman Cain and the Electrocuted Alligators
A recent poll released by Rasmussen Reports shows that Americans would choose Herman Cain over Barack Obama by a 43 to 41 percent margin if a general election were held[...]
Columns · Monday Monday · Opinion
Christie Represents the Conservative Image of Bipartisanship
Obama added the word ‘bipartisan’ to Washington’s short list of favorite words in 2008 when he convinced America that more cooperation was the answer to our problems. Republicans promptly made[...]
Columns · Monday Monday · Opinion
The Candidates are Onstage, But the Crowd is in the Spotlight
Has anyone else noticed all the hypothetical bodies piling up next Ron Paul’s podium? What about the real ones in the Texas prison system? Well, the crowds at the endless[...]
Social Security is Headed for Reform, and it Could be a Good Thing
Social Security is about to undergo some major changes. Entitlement reform is one of the few things Republicans and Democrats can agree on, as evidenced by President Obama’s jobs bill,[...]
The Wrong Type of Job Creation
Get used to hearing the phrase “job creation” over the next 14 months. It’s something Republicans want you to believe they are better at than Democrats. And they are—in the[...]
The Joke's On Trump
I’m not going to pretend that the release of long-form birth certificate will end the birther controversy, but at least it seems to have silenced the movement’s adopted leader. Well…[...]