June 2, 2009
In editorials and excerpts of senatorial speeches, I’ve read that Republicans have a special obligation to tread lightly with the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court due to her ethnicity and gender.

May 19, 2009
Prior to 2006, Rick Santorum was one of the most widely hated Republicans in the nation.

May 5, 2009
In 1950, President Harry Truman received a scurrilous letter from someone claiming to have damaging information about the honor of Truman’s political rival, Republican Sen. Robert Taft. Truman mailed this letter to Taft, along with a letter of his own letting his opponent know that he continued to h

April 21, 2009
Somalia may be the best example of what the world was like before governments.

April 7, 2009
One of the saddest realities about the human condition is that people are constantly being tortured, oppressed and brutalized by other people.

March 10, 2009
My favorite social commentator/cartoonist would have to be the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, Scott Adams.

February 24, 2009
In the wake of the conclusion of an unpopular Republican presidency, one reporter declared that the Republican party was on the verge of destruction and that it “must have a broadened base and reinforcements, or it is gone, and the Democratic party will come into power for a generation.” The unpopular presidency was that of Ulysses S.

February 10, 2009
The last truly bipartisan presidential election in American history was in 1824.

January 27, 2009
There was once a politician who became president by focusing on a cleavage social issue that divided the American people.

January 13, 2009
In 1856, Sen.

November 25, 2008
Few issues of cultural importance in America long escape the gaze of a Simpsons’ episode.

November 4, 2008
On Feb.

October 21, 2008
On the issue of education, I believe my hero Stephen Colbert put it best when in an interview with Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, he asked point blank, “Why can’t we leave children behind?” There is something wrong with America when even conservatives like George Bush believe every American child should have a college degree regardless of their ability, needs or interests.

October 7, 2008
A few days ago I received an e-mail from a friend seeking my counsel.

September 24, 2008
With the rise in gas prices these past few months, there can be no doubt that the issue of energy is pertinent with the American people this election year.