So What Did Lou Dobbs Accomplish For The Grief?
Before anyone starts getting out the bunting and blue ribbons for Lou Dobbs, I am not sure that anywhere in the (now largely complete) discussions of his departure from CNN that there is any clear evidence that he did anything to distinguish himself as worthy of all that discussion. Can't the chatter be in proportion to the impact, just this [...]
Grahn: Ask Honestly, Answer Honestly
The actions of Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood cannot be explained rationally or defended, in whole or part, by any decent person. He is a coward, and those who look for some mechanism by which to rationalize, compensate for, or create some shade of nuance in his actions disgrace themselves, although not as much as they disgrace the victims of the [...]
Grahn: Obama’s Fox News Miscalculation
While President Obama may not be losing any sleep over his administration's ongoing kerfuffle with Fox News, he might want to spend some waking hours reviewing just how it is he finds himself in the situation he now finds himself in. Whether he comes out smelling like a rose or not, the whole episode reeks of junior-varsity level tactical thought [...]
OPINION: The Laces Were Out, Rush
Rush Limbaugh has long bristled at the idea of being considered a radical or an extremist. For those who don't know much of Rush's rise to fame - and for those who got in late - you would be wise to look up Rush's first visit to CNN's old point-counterpoint show Crossfire, where he appeared on an episode called "Radio Radicals". What was most [...]
OPINION: This Land Is Their Land. Take Their Word For It.
Of all the low-rent tropes Conservatives can be counted on to trot out regularly, the resurgence of the "Take Our Country Back!" call betrays an empty hopper in the GOP Idea Department. In the most literal sense, someone like John Boehner getting up before the Values Voters gang and letting fly with the call at least makes practical sense - party [...]
OPINION: The Scarlet S – Or, How I Learned To Love Hearing The Right Cry ‘Socialism’
Rhetoric, and its relative heat, have been a big area of interest for me, and I am glad to see it grow in popularity in recent weeks. I am sad that the impetus for this focus is a series of high-profile rhetorical grenade lobs that unashamedly seek to generate far more heat than light. We seem unable to find a bottom that will hold in this race [...]
Opinion: Heavy Words Lightly Thrown
It is neither startling, nor particularly illuminating, that Jimmy Carter was the highest profile Dem to date to go hard for the race card. For the right, President Carter is a long-standing punchline, and for the left, there has long been an effort to focus more on his life after leaving office than anything he (may or may not have) accomplished [...]
OPINION: Yes, Pat. Thanks for noticing!
Pat Buchanan asks "Is America coming apart?" in his most recent column, and in the spirit of the date, I will gladly pick up the baton here and try to meet him halfway.First, the answer to his question is yes. While I think some of Pat's buildup is hopelessly biased, I am inclined to give Pat the benefit of the doubt. I may not often like [...]
