Author: Steve M.

If an atheist Occupy Wall Street backer were the new Cinderella star of the National Football League, do you think Fox News would be giving us stories about the guy that said, in effect, “Yeah, I can see why people admire...

From today’s David Brooks column I learned the following: * Great presidents “tend to be emotionally secure” — except for, say, Lincoln, who was clinically depressed. * A great president is likely to have...

If I seem skeptical every time it’s suggested that a Monty Burns-esque remark from Mitt Romney is going to hurt him in the Republican primaries, it’s because, as Gallup noted last month, Americans’ concerns...

This is getting a lot of attention, but I don’t think it’s going to do much harm to Mitt Romney, even though I wish it would: Mitt Romney recounted some advice from his father, former presidential candiate George...

Tom Hilton recently stirred up some trouble with a couple of posts about Ron Paul and Glenn Greenwald at my main blog, No More Mister Nice Blog. Now Tom will be on Sam Seder’s Ring of Fire radio show (at some point this...