growls from Manhattan
The question was; “Are you better off now than when Obama took office?” 44% said no while 34% said yes. This seems like a reasonable total considering the current situation but it’s the wrong question or at least it’s only the question
You’re probably sick of hearing about this. So am I but it’s really very important so I am writing about it once again. It seems the President is in a steel cage match with various grunts from the Republican party, all of
With the killing of Osama Bin Laden we have to take a long look at what the real situation in the Middle East has become and what we should be doing about it. Putting aside all the hysteria, all the finger pointing
So we’re almost three years into the Obama Presidency and the question must be asked. Is he the right guy for the job; maybe, maybe not. In order to answer that question intelligently we have to go back to 2007 and the
For comedians across the country, Sara Palin is the gift that just keeps giving. Her recent tour of places where other candidates were announcing their candidacy led her to New Hampshire where she was kind enough to tell the world that Paul
Michael Grynbaum, in a recent article on Traffic Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, completely missed the point. The people of the city don’t care if Sadik-Khan is nasty, abrasive or hard to work with. Most of them don’t ever, thank God, have to see
Everybody talks about solving the deficit as if that’s the most important problem on the horizon. I guess it is if you have a job but there are plenty of people in this country who don’t have jobs and their lack of
Why is it that the Right Wing can’t seem to decide whether they want to keep the country safe from totalitarian government or whether they want totalitarian government to be the law of the land? Let’s start with the gun nuts. As
Seems like everybody with a mouth is having something to say about raising the limit on the debt. Most of it is amazingly uninformed but that in itself is not unusual. Watched Mitch McConnell do a number on how he will demand
Okay, we’ve spoken about what kind of country we have and what kind of country some people want. The reality is recognizing what we have and trying to make what we have the best there is. The United States of America will