Commentary

Texas governor and reported GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry is the nation’s greatest political con artist. His so called Texas Miracle has been totally debunked as a fraud. Yet, Perry with generous help from conservative business leaders, tea party acolytes, and…

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Moments after President Obama put his John Hancock on the debt ceiling deal, a Northern California tea party member claimed that when he proudly wore his tea party t-shirt to his local grocery store a half dozen persons immediately asked him how to join.

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He is presently a political analyst for Fox News, a regular panelist on Fox’s public-affairs program Fox News Sunday, and a columnist for both FoxNews.com and for The Hill. He has also hosted National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation and anchored Fox News Channel’s weekend news coverage.

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We’ll start with a dude so Islamophobic that he makes Rick Santorum look tolerant, Cain, who raised a couple of million dollars this election cycle isn’t bringing much heat in Republican Presidential Nomination polls, but he’s saying all the stuff that Tea Party-ers (and other ignorant folks) seem to want to hear.

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For the British public, it was one thing when Rupert Murdoch’s ghouls over at News Of The World (NOTW) were penetrating the private lives of the rich and famous—after all, privilege has it’s costs, too, and fame surrenders to the harsh, constant scrutiny of the public domain it was quite another…

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The right has been successful in painting progressivism and liberalism as dirty words, so much so that as early as 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis refused to identify himself as a “liberal” even though his record clearly indicated otherwise.

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“Awww, shucky ducky!” It’s kind of hard for me to take your seriously as a candidate for president, much less the president himself, when you begin a speech with a phrase made popular by a little known black comedian.

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I start this column off with hearty congratulations to New York’s gay and lesbian community. Why? Because on Saturday, at least in your home state, you have joined the community of people who can stand in front of an Elvis Impersonator and be joined in holy matrimony.

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Senate Democratic Appropriations Chairman Vincent Hughes (D-Philadelphia/Montgomery) today said he voted against the Republican budget contained in House Bill 1485 because it will hurt students, seniors, taxpayers and Pennsylvania’s most vulnerable.

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As Scott Pelley replaces Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News and Glenn Beck prepares to leave Fox News Channel, a question looms. Where is the diversity?

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