A basic political re-alignment appears underway in the United States. A few days ago a pundit from the left criticized the large slate of Republican candidates for taking a more populist stance. This latest criticism is a remarkable change after years of charges Republicans were mainly tools of the rich...
Mario Cuomo once told me my perception of welfare was wrong. The late Governor of New York insisted most welfare recipients weren’t a troop of lazy men “guzzling beer” on a street corner (they sounded like fun guys). Instead he argued most recipients were children and found themselves hungry and in threadbare clothes through no fault of their own...
Is the world frying to a crisp or are we headed for a long period of cooling? At this stage of the climate change argument I don’t think any layman or woman can much trust anyone any longer. Dana Milbank, an Obama caressing columnist at Pravda-on-the-Potomac, commonly called the Washington Post, writes the “deniers” are running scared...