I never wanted to be a pundit. ~Robert MacNeil   Let's get this out of the way early. Almost all of us dislike punditry for various reasons....
For many months he had been endlessly scrawling Obama's plan for a Mao like Communist America across his blackboards but now he saw the great truth. Could it be possible that Obama, in conjunction with "elements of the State Department", is preparing America to join a worldwide Muslim caliphate?
Yesterday my husband and I attended a spring training game - the Oakland A's vs the Chicago Cubs - down in Phoenix near the...
Why is politics so mind bogglingly complicated? You often hear conversation  about the host of complex problems we face today and that these issues cannot...
As Politicalgates expands and expounds, certain topics that relate to Sarah Palin, and more importantly, society as a whole, have a way of circling around. Some questions or issues can persist, and are worthy of reevaluation given their ongoing pertinence. Recently, the always relevant, misguided concept of the "death panel" came up again in discussions on this site.

Facing Ignorance

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While reading an article posted on Crooks and Liars about the utter ignorance of the some our fellow citizens, especially those who get their...
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