Even liberal Arianna Huffington objected to a recent Obama campaign ad suggesting that Mitt Romney might not have issued the order to send in the Navy SEALs to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. She called the ad “despicable.” Standing with 9/11 mayor Rudy Giuliani by his side at a New York firehouse that lost 11 men on Sept. 11, Mitt Romney, who has attacked Obama for allegedly politicizing the OBL...

With the vast majority of Americans disgusted with Washington and polls showing that Congressional approval rates are in the toilet, can we anticipate that the discourse might improve in the future? Can we expect that politicians will take citizens’ displeasure to heart with positive steps to improve the atmosphere in Washington, so that the important business of the nation can be accomplished? Unfortunately,...

WASHINGTON – Having begun my life as a performer, by way of decades of study and Broadway, it’s something that never leaves you. When the next half of your life is dedicated to the politics of sex and powerful girls, my preferred word for women regardless of age, and a breakout hit blasts into the entertainment stratosphere smashing the “Sex and the City” barrier, it’s going to...

From the John Edwards trial: GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — A former adviser to John Edwards recounted Wednesday how the former presidential candidate’s now-deceased wife indignantly confronted her husband, baring her chest in front of staff members the day after a tabloid reported that he was cheating on her. ……………… “‘You don’t see me anymore,’”...

Agree with him or not it is a bold move in a state not known for being gay friendly. And everyone should oppose the bill as an attack on free speech and intrusion of state government into local affairs

The New York Times today reported that a former associate of Mitt Romney at Bain Capital is writing a book that purports to show why greater income inequality is good for the economy, and also benefits the 99 percent-plus who haven’t been cunning or well connected enough to become super-rich. His argument, in brief, is this: most of the money garnered by these super rich worthies isn’t spent on...

WASHINGTON – Michael Hastings knows the meaning of being swift-boated, as does Buzzfeed boss Ben Smith. The Buzzfeed swift boat headline is a winner, even if the usage and examples are incorrect, with the most important element of this story a buried lede that has nothing to do with swift-boating and could be a blockbuster if Pres. Obama’s opponents pick it up. Of course, for that to happen...

I’m tired because of the gluten or is it the depression? Did the doughnut bring about this heavy head, or is it the sorrow, the perpetual sorrow of seeing so many refuse you? Or is it my refusal, my refusal to be at peace with who I am and who you are? It seems easy to blame this heavy hearted sorrow on the rebellions around me or the gluten within me, but maybe it’s more. What is the goal of...

UPDATE II: “The surprise trip was a closely guarded secret, kept by White House officials and members of the White House press corps — as is customary with presidential trips to war zones.” — for the security of the President (added by author) Read here how the rumors and news were handled by the media and the White House. UPDATE I: The New York Times now reports: On Surprise Visit to Kabul, Obama...

When I was in high school I had a curfew of 11:30pm on the weekends. I was grounded a day for every five minutes I was late. It’s sounds harsh, I mean, what’s 10 minutes, right? But what my Dad knew is that if he allowed me to get away with five minutes, the next time would be 10 or 15 minutes, and I would say, “Hey, I didn’t get in trouble before, and I was only five minutes more late.”...

CNN reports that Al Qaeda papers were found in a porn file. That’s weird: you’d think they would be hid in a file that wasn’t often looked at…

WASHINGTON – It was never going to be otherwise. When he took the backyard podium, Obama, 50, noted Clinton’s “remarkable” economic record in his two White House terms and referred frequently to the political powerhouse standing behind him, who stands to be a huge fundraising force in the final months of the presidential campaign. – Obama and Bill Clinton campaign together on economy The...

In what could be the cruelest of ironies, May 1 marks both the ninth anniversary of a mission not accomplished and the first anniversary of one accomplished and accomplished magnificently. The media is doing quite a good job of reporting on the latter — the killing of Osama Bin Laden — although it is being distorted, “sour-graped” and even discredited in some quarters. Our own Taylor Marsh gives...

Sometimes it’s the little stuff that drives one crazy.

Jobs aren’t coming back rapidly in most parts of the country. They are, however, coming back slowly in most places. One major exception is Wisconsin. The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that Wisconsin was the only state in the country to experience “statistically significant job losses” in the 12 months ended in March. And though most of these loses were in the public sector, it...

Mitt Romney and George Bush the Elder share at least one characteristic. As former governor Anne Richards used to say, each “was born with a silver foot in his mouth.” Last week, Romney advised the young to “take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.” It’s nice to be able to borrow money from your folks. After...

There are myths proclaimed by some right-wing partisans and Ayn Rand acolytes that “rugged individualists” working alone have been responsible for America’s great accomplishments and that government is the enemy of progress. In their quest to reduce taxes, particularly for the wealthy, and cut the size of government, this myth has been promulgated by ideologues to gain support from the middle-class, needed...

WASHINGTON – AN INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA in the Situation Room with Brian Williams on the bin Laden raid exploded this past weekend. That it happened just days before tomorrow’s disastrous “Mission Accomplished” anniversary worked like salt in a wound. Sen. John McCain had a hissy fit. Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro is either the dumbest political writer on planet earth or is...

This according to a new book about campaigns and fundraisers.

UPDATE: Related in more ways than one to the “brain drain,” especially as it affects our young people, is a “brain waste.” Paul Krugman addresses how some of our policies are contributing to “wasting the minds of a whole generation.” Please read it here == Original Post: The unemployment in Spain “just hit a depression-level 24.4 percent.” Portugal, and Greece are not faring much better. Meanwhile...