Why are we entering a presidential race hearing arguments about the virtues of various forms of work? To hear a republican speak, it is the most honorable goal to become a venture capitalist, or a CEO of a multi-national corporation, or an oil company executive. It is not as good …
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Let's start with a differentiation between three words that have been all over the internet and on talk radio and television the past 24 hours. The first is "pandering", a word that the republican party and many republican supporters are bantering about indicating that the Presid …
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President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of “evolving” on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues …
Yesterday, we saw another stark example of why the majority often cannot be entrusted to protect the rights of those in the minority. With the passage of Amendment One in North Carolina, the people of that state have demonstrated that they have a basic misunderstanding of Am …
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To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there they go again. We had another one of those out of body republican experiences today that are increasingly frightening for many Americans. During a Mitt Romney town hall today, a questioner was called upon to ask Governor Romney a question. She c …
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The 2012 election cycle promises to recreate much of the same aggravation that political watchers of the past three years have whesuffered through. On one hand we are going to have a democratic party that is going to continue to express their policy positions and a republican par …
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This has been a strange week. The republican party has allowed themselves to get caught in the Evangelical war against gays in a major way. Between Brian Fischer and the American Family Association and Pastor Sean Harris at the Berean Baptist Church in Fayetteville, North Carolin …
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I was listening to talk radio this morning and wound up shaking my head at the thought that Richard Lugar, the highly conservative, republican senator from Indiana is getting a serious primary challenge this year. Now, understanding that Senator Lugar has a 96-98% conservative vo …
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We all are concerned about the upcoming presidential election contest between President Barack Obama and Challenger Willard Mitt Romney. We are already arguing issues. How are we going to approach the taxation issues, immigration, foreign policy, education, and rights issues.&nbs …
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Confusion, thy name is republicanism. How in the world can a political party take almost every position that they have held for the past twenty five years and oppose those same positions today because they happen to be introduced by democrats is an absurdity of the highest degree …
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