The Silliness of the Gas Tax Holiday

Funny. When Thomas Friedman isn’t talking about Iraq, he sounds kinda reasonable. The gas tax holiday has become the new luke warm topic of the presidential campaign. John McCain got the ball rolling when he proposed a summer long tax break on gasoline, and Hillary Clinton, eager to prove her down...

Anatomy of “100 Years”

In a fit of pure irony, the Republican party has been up in arms over something they have turned into fine art. I suppose, what’s good for the goose is not good for the gander. The uproar, of course, stems from a recent DNC ad that I myself wasn’t particularly thrilled with. Of course, my...

How Republican Ideology is Killing America: Example 1 Heparin

Nearly three years ago my grandfather, a veteran of World War II, a man in his early 80′s, and a man whom at the time was apparently as healthy as an ox, suddenly found himself in suburban Detroit’s Beaumont hospital on the verge of death. What happened to him is not unlike what happens to many...

The Rules: Coda

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JicZeBkg67A Well, we all knew this was coming the moment Rev. Wright dropped the state terrorism bomb and dared to say something positive about Farrakhan [insert sputtering, self-righteous indignation here]. Ben Smith: In Winston-Salem, Obama sharply attacks Reverend Jeremiah...

What are they thinking?

In the heat of the battle for the Democratic nomination, and the tuning up for the general election fight to come, it’s easy to overlook the essential question of why anyone in their right mind would even want to be President. What would motivate someone to seek the office? Granted, there’s a...