Month: March 2012

First of all I should like to preface this post with a disclaimer. I am not a troll nor am I an alarmist. I am however a realist. In any game or contest if you want to win you have to consider every possible option that your...

A new ABC News/Washington Post Poll finds that 69% of Americans disapprove of Super PACs. Even a majority of Republicans oppose them. This means that roughly seven in ten people don’t agree with Mitt Romney that...

From Alternet What If the “Broken Windows” Theory Were Applied to Wall Street? James Q. Wilson’s famous “broken windows” theory led to strict policing of working class behavior. What if his ideas...

In today’s column, Richard Cohen laments Sarah Palin’s proud ignorance, dishonesty, and general unfitness to hold high office — and speculates that her influence is going to migrate out of the Republican Party...

Arlen Specter has a new memoir out. It might be interesting to get his impressions of the first two years of the Obama administration but it’s hard for me to feel sorry for him when he complains that the president and...