Speakers' Corner

This category is for more personal posts about the lives and interests of members at PlanetPOV

When the Democrats have to be told home truths by Pat Buchanan, you know something is not only rotten, it's shameful. Earlier this week, in one of his many appearances on MSNBC, where he's the Grandpa Munster of political analysts,...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, June 23, 2011. Sorry for the late post--computer pixies!!
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, June 22, 2011
  I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio. ~Rodney Dangerfield   I wanna talk a little nostalgia in this post. Specifically, the toys we loved as children. I'm sure almost all of us have...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, June 21 , 2011
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, June 20, 2011
    The kindergarten of spoiled, affluent children pretending to  dabble in politics, otherwise known as Netroots Nation, hit a new low when the White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, was subjected to one of the most immature and unprofessional...
Today is Father’s day and I wish to honor my father, Gene, who left this world 9 years ago at the age of 75. My father was not perfect, by no means, but I have come to realize, what an...
There is a great deal of consternation regarding the fact that a Senate Committee just passed the ‘Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act’. If signed into law (which is likely), COICA would allow the Department of Justice to file a...
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Albert Einstein How much do you know about how your brain works? How much does anyone know? How certain are...