I have really been conflicted over my decision not to attend the McCain/Palin "rally" in Waukesha yesterday. I saw the clips from the event last night, and woke up this very early this morning wondering who was this guy, the angry black guy, that so moved Senator McCain with his personal attack...

It's too patently Rovian not to consider it. If anyone has heard any plausible explanation as to why Georgia decided to provoke the Russian bear during the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games, please let me know. I am sure that most Americans were too mesmerized by the Olympic events to pay any...

The language of intolerance is not without consequences. Unfortunately, the intolerant are too weak minded to understand the consequences of their own words. So-called "conservatives", taking their cue from the "You're with us, or with the terrorists" jargon of their President...

What's all this I hear about needing a bias ? I think there's plenty of bias around! Why, just watch the nightly news! Ohhh ... Never mind. (Hat tip to the late Rosanne Rosanadana ) But seriously, folks... On a scale of political bias, the media industry as a whole is no more or less biased than...

The endorsement by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Senator Barack Obama's proposed 16-month timeline for the withdrawal of the bulk of American troops has significance well beyond its positive effect on his campaign. Obviously, it demonstrates that Obama's instincts and advisers are more...

If Intelligent Design is so intelligent, why aren’t we? I’m pretty sure most people think they are, which begs the question. They think their brains operate in the logical and efficient manner of their “personal” computers. “Facts” are learned and stored away, waiting to be retrieved when needed. These...

It’s obvious that Republican candidate John McCain either does not have a good grasp of the facts from moment to moment, or he simply chooses to ignore them. Last week the Republican’s campaign theme was energy, and he was on the road trying to capitalize on Americans’ pain at the pump. (Meanwhile McCain...

FOX News WASHINGTON - Well, who can you trust to blindly, mindlessly, small mindedly support Our President and Our One Nation Under God if not the presumptive Republican Nominee for the President of the United States? Shockingly, Senator John McCain revealed yesterday that he personally has great difficulty...

While I am delighted that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee this fall, and genuinely awed by the historical significance of this fact, I am struggling to repress a sense of foreboding on this damp gray day. Bobby Kennedy was shot down forty years ago today, just as his drive to the Presidency...

As was predicted by Middle East experts prior to the Bush/Cheney invasion of Iraq, Iran has been the chief beneficiary of the thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars we have wasted there. For decades Sadaam Hussein, whose ambitions had nothing to do with religion, acted as a foil and a...