Chris Matthews takes a lot of heat from the left and right as either being to much of a parrot for the right wing, or a liberal tool. Some ways, I feel sorry for the guy. But no more so than this interview with Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who once called herself a "a fool for Christ...

Once there was a gifted young neurologist/psychiatrist named Viktor Frankl who practiced in Vienna in the years before World War II. When the war came, the US knew of his reputation as a brilliant scientist and humanitarian, and so this country offered him a visa to escape to freedom. But he felt he...

John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his VP candidate to help provide balance to the Republican ticket. She brings with her a more conservative background as well as youth. The amazing thing is that in Sarah Palin's and Barack Obama's relatively short political careers, the Republican VP candidate...

One would think in today's virulent and seething partisanship that a lefty like myself would actually prefer the hatred by the Rightwing of the Clinton's and anything liberal in the 1990's. In some way's the hatred against Clinton was less destructive and did not have the mantel of executive...

In my attempts to write the promised "hijacking the left" blog in the preceding days, I have come to a sadly predictable revelation. Since I last posted, I have tried several times to create reasoned arguments to how American Democrats have drifted from their fundamental principles. This clashes...

As I watch the routine trouncing of the conservative ideal currently taking place, I wonder what happened. When did the idea of limited government become so appalling? Who really wants the government to tell us how to live? Really, what's the appeal of diet socialism? And I answer myself: the right...

In an effort to know thine enemy: Do you think, that for ONE WEEK, you liberals out there could try wearing a conservative mantle, and you conservatives, do the same with liberalism? Jim, Amy, Colonel, and company -- would you consider this experiment: Immersing yourselves in so-called liberal news sources...

I'm extremely hesitant to use the phrase "Post-9/11." Not only is it overplayed and misconstrued, it's very ineffective to describe the events we are now experiencing. Additionally, all the effects of 9/11 had already been occurring. Americans' had yet to wake up to the consequences...

Don't tell me that there isn't a severe liberal bias in the media! In 1992 Dan Quayle was pummeled in the media for misspelling "potatoe", and his candidacy was finished. Media tells us that this candidate is too stupid to be president. In 2008 Obama says that he has visited 57 states...

Regardless of what you think of him, President George W Bush knew exactly what he was doing with at least one aspect of his job. He knew precisely how to make sure his spirit will remain in government for years , long after his term and the term of his successor have passed. This power to influence inner...