You know there’s a serious national problem, in addition to all the others we face, when a recent poll indicates a majority of responders say Fox News is their most reliable news source. It helps, though, to explain the level of ignorance that confounds our political discourse. But other media enclaves air views equally ill-conceived [...]

 
While the president’s agenda and progressive causes have taken some hits of late, more depressing is the fact that the Democratic base has thrown up its collective hands in despair and anger because its every wish has not been fulfilled post haste.
It isn’t true that there are no differences between the parties as some have [...]

It is well past time, for the president and Democrats to take control of the national debate about health care and the economy. They’ve spent too much time reacting to instead of directing the discussion. That task hasn’t been made any easier by Republicans whose obvious goal all along has been to undermine and defeat [...]

The phrase “getting away with murder” is common in much of our daily discourse – – figuratively for example when lenient parents spoil their kids by letting them ‘get away with murder’ or more literally by people who feel that O. J., who was exonerated by a jury, actually got away with murdering his ex-wife. [...]