Zombie Politics

The United States is enjoying a renaissance of natural gas exploration with the increased use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract...

Seriously, what planet do these people live on?

I think the results last night in Iowa speak volumes. The GOP is split into three distinct groups. First, you have the business wing/old gua...

Krugman's recent piece on debt is a true gem and, more or less, torpedoes much of the doom and gloom we hear from conservatives and libe...

It's caucus day today in Iowa and, even though Mitt Romney has pulled ahead in some polls. I'm still saying the Ron Paul wins it. It...

As we look ahead to this election year, one of the first questions that arises is will the president win re-election?  More importantly, do ...

What a great year for music, film and television. There were so many great entries in each category that it was very hard for me to choose t...

Among the columnists I usually read, Charles Krauthammer is the one who most reliably galls me. But the other day he wrote a thoughtful colu...

A sign posted outside a row of temples tells women they cannot walk on the sidewalk outside their doors. An eight-year-old girl who dared w...

Next month buying airline tickets should become less misleading : Beginning Jan. 24, the Transportation Department will enforce a rule req...

Recently I had this link sent to me  (from one of Kevin Baker's followers) which contained the following quote. I know that Obummer is...

We are now eight days away from the Iowa caucuses and I predict that Ron Paul is going to win that election with Mitt Romney coming in secon...

"Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin sang "Cherry Ripe," and another uncle sang ...

"One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking...

Making folks on the right blow a bowel is a pretty easy thing these days. But, boy oh boy, did a big one explode after this came out. Ti...

Like many first-tier airlines, Delta has clubs at airports where members can find a quiet place to plug in their laptops and get free wi-fi...

Well, it looks like the new saviors of the Republic in the US House of Representatives didn't get the memo on how to govern.  Republic...

If Mitt Romney is the nominee, it's going to be very difficult for me to go after him because I like him so much personally. Granted, I ...