The other day on a sports radio talk show there was a terrific idea for handling people who don’t understand their subject and, in addition, have their facts all wrong. After engaging in a brief conversation with a caller, the show’s moderators declared him disqualified from further consideration because his remarks about a baseball trade [...]

Progressives need to develop better talking-point techniques. They are way behind conservatives in that category, and have lost the battle to control the debate, any debate. Democrats seem not to embrace the concept of party unity which shows to some extent they are a big-tent party that at times uses logic to advance programs and [...]

 
If you aren’t paying close attention to the facts but want to discuss reforming health care, creating jobs or winning the war in Afghanistan you can avail yourself of the right-wing talk radio option, or listen to Republican floor speeches in Congress. It is obvious that participants on call-in shows, angst in full cry, are [...]

How are we to deal with people in our political vortex who claim devotion to God and country but operate at the margins of truth and honor? Is putting one’s hand over one’s heart and reciting the pledge or quoting the Bible cover enough for those who would lead us into the temptation of thinking [...]