Month: May 2015

I am not an amnesiac which is why I remember the time, a few years back, when Mark Halperin went on Morning Joe and got himself suspended from making appearances on MSNBC for saying that President Obama is a “kind of a...

I don’t really much care how many people self-identify as Christian or religious, but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the Republican Party’s embrace of a very conservative interpretation of Christianity...

George Zimmerman doesn’t have to go looking for trouble because trouble finds him. He must make Florida’s criminal defense attorneys happy, but I’m not sure about Florida’s car insurance claim adjusters....

I am a fan of sports teams from New York whose names do not end in “E-T-S.” I have little use for sports franchises from Boston. But I do have a soft spot for the Patriots because their head coach Bill Belichick led...

The pope is a little less nuanced than Dwight Eisenhower when talking about the undue influence of the Military-Industrial Complex: “Many powerful people don’t want peace because they live off war…This is...