When Money And Mouth Meet To Eat
Some right-wing extremists declared yesterday Chick-Fil-A Day to support anti-gay statements and financial contributions made by the fast-food chain's owner. It seems an odd thing to publicly celebrate, just as I was shocked when I lived in Virginia and...
Cheney vs. Cheney vs. Palin
Holy crap. I finally agree with Dick Cheney about something. Over the weekend, the former Vice President was asked by ABC's Jonathan Hart about Sarah Palin. His reply: I like Governor Palin. I’ve met her. I know her, but based on her background, she had only been...
Gun Too Far
I haven't had a chance to write anything about the Aurora theater attack last Friday, but have had several thoughts running around in my mind that I have to let out. Whenever the question of gun control comes up, opponents argue that there shouldn't be any...
Franken Remembers Davis
Al Franken took to the floor of the Senate to eulogize his old "SNL" writing partner Tom Davis, who died of cancer last week. I can only imagine how Senate staffers, bored with all the usual political nonsense they hear in speeches day in and day out, were happy to...
Next Time, Ask Bain For The Money
The Romney campaign has been using an Obama quote out of context to make it seem that the president doesn't believe that small business owners built their own companies. What Obama actually said was that no one does it alone:“If you were successful, somebody along the...
The Lies About Obamacare
Like Wall Street prognosticators who "know" what the stock market will do next week, or a football fan who predicts now who will win the next Super Bowl, politicians and pundits who make claims about the impact ObamaCare will have when it goes into force in two years...
Telling A Complex Story Takes Time
I love process stories, pieces that take us behind the scenes of an event to tell us what happened in real time from the people who were part of it. The best one I've read in a long time is Tom Goldstein's report on the media's coverage of the Supreme Court decision...
SCOTUS Secrecy
In an organization of 70 people, how did the Supreme Court keep any information about the ObamaCare decision from leaking until yesterday morning? Jim Bennett, former law clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy and now a prominent attorney in St. Louis, joined me this...