Republicans have painted themselves into a corner 鈥� again.Republican legislative leaders, who鈥檇 thought they were playing a legislative gambit that would make the president and Democratic members of Congress take the heat for cutting off funding to the Department of Homeland Security, are ...
I don鈥檛 have anything against Alabama.I鈥檝e never gone there.Chances are, if I鈥檓 allowed to keep my free will, I never will.A hundred years after the Civil War ended, Alabama acted as if it hadn鈥檛.It was ground zero in the fight to keep segregation thriving.By the mid-1960s, it had ...
Hardly anything, it seems, escapes partisan politics.Let鈥檚 take measles.Back in 2000, America鈥檚 medical scientists had declared that measles had nearly been eradicated in this country.Unfortunately, though, two years earlier, a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, had published a study that ...
Well, it looks like more than a dozen Republicans are already lining up to stake a claim on the 2016 presidential nomination.Jeb Bush, Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, ...
We are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest country on earth.President Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2012Oh Rudy!鈥淎merica鈥檚 Mayor,鈥� Rudy Giuliani, thinks he knows President Obama better than Obama knows himself.Rudy鈥檚 wrong. Come to think of it, he鈥檚 really no longer 鈥淎merica鈥檚 ...
On Jan. 10, a Fox News guest 鈥� Nolan Peterson 鈥� proclaimed that France is awash in so-called 鈥淣o-Go zones,鈥� where Muslims have taken over, and not even French Gendarmes can patrol the streets.Peterson claimed 鈥淚鈥檝e been to Afghanistan, Iraq and Kashmir (in India) 鈥� and at times it ...