Like swimming against the current wherein Obama tries to save jobs at the same time trying to create more. In an economy going no where, there is the danger of managing mere busy work. For instance, to save 30,000 Circuit City workers a new chain of no return would have to start up in face of the drastic reduction in purchasing power—and what’s more brutally realistic is to form a chain gang of retailers doing clean up work. The key, of course, is to begin to rebuild a via...

Number 44 is no longer exclusively yours! 44b jerseys will now be in fashion.

With tonight's home run Hillary should be in the Hall of Fame. She blew away any doubt that she is a real team player. Of course, Fox News called the hit a foul. 

    The polls that show there’s still a sizable share of voters who think Obama is Muslim is just another creative excuse not to vote for a black President. Racism has many ploys and subterfuges.

  Hillary for VP   Those who wish unhesitatingly for Hillary as VP should reconsider. Beyond her being simply [to no avail] a nagging gadfly to Obama, she would preëmpt Michelle as First Lady, and worse, be lamed if Obama lost. Moreover, had Carter chosen Ted, Massachusetts would have lost a powerful legislative voice in the Senate as New York would lose Hillary’s.

Obama’s becoming a resident of Chicago impelled him to join the ranks of the Black community and its streets if he were to ever become a public figure. His joining the most popular church also became inevitable if he were to draw on black connections. After all, he was born into white culture and because of his mother’s travels in a sense he became a world citizen, if not a nomad . He cannot be faulted for wanting to belong, particularly having married a black woman. Being highly int...

One thing you must give credit to Clinton’s campaign is that she has toughened Obama to look beyond the “fairy tale” of change and to admit to the full range of many cultures of the Democratic Party. Far from being a drain on the strength of the party she has actually highlighted the undercurrent forces of Democrats who are not liberal elitists and also need a voice. As a young man voting for Adlai Stevenson twice I learned the hard way that glowing oratory and intellectual arr...

  Biofuels: A Hoax   I’m guilty of thinking alternative fuels as a panacea until I realized that many of them require disproportionately more energy to produce. In the case of biofuel it not only consumes more energy but frighteningly jeopardizes food abundance, ending in price gouging. Plus the increased use of fertilizers draining off into the Gulf creating health hazards and depleting fish life. By ignoring soil preservation farmers are wrecking the planet by relea...

    With the current controversy over loudmouths from the pulpit  like Reverends Hagee and Wright spewing hatred for government and fellow man, is there any wonder that the Founding Fathers erected the separation wall between church and state? For the Fathers knew the power of pulpit over lording ignorant flock to do God’s bidding in consonance with the passion of preachers bereft of reason and that the few intelligent among members would shrug it off without public in...

  Pundits again are applauding Obama; this time over his speech on race. In so doing, however, they are inserting another bias by qualifying that Obama’s thoughtful oratory may only reach understanding with the suburban educated class already claimed to belong to Obama and that the blue collar, uneducated “knuckleheads” of Hillary supporters will not be capable of absorbing its “nuances.” However, these nuances clearly were meant to safeguard his virtuall...

Do you think Hillary will throw in the towel if [apparently when] she loses Texas and Ohio? Or if she wins one of them will she hang on by her fingernails till Pennsylavania?

Thank the gods, there's only one more Democratic debate; the past half dozen have been boring, hearing the same tunes from each one. There's really no debate when everyone agrees but for such minor differences. Of course this "historic" primary contributed to the candidates having to walk on eggs, fearing the race or misogyny card. 

  Defending Secularism Lisa Miller’s “defense of secularism” is a courageous piece. There has been too much of made pf religion, particularly in Newsweek that’s beginning to look like an encyclopedia of the world’s religions. Miller, in zeroing in on the word secularism, sums up the idiocy of undue emphasis on faiths incessantly conjuring another form of class warfare—separatists vs. modern churchgoers. In my heyday a secularist was one who bel...

  Is it so strange that Ted Kennedy et äl have come out of the closet for Obama, or is there some truth to the grapevine that the JFK speech writer Ted Sorensen is behind Obama’s “oratory”? Then again, maybe Gov. Deval Patrick is the ghost writer--whatever. And btw, did JFK’s speeches make the invisible difference in barely beating Nixon?  However, after tonight's Wisconsin primary, it is evident that Obama is the general election candidate and we hav...

It should be no contest but it appears the latest polls suggest that nearly 50% are going to stay the course regardless of the multi-faceted incompetence of the President: ●             Though a majority wishes the war in Iraq never happened, it still, defying all logic, heralds Bush as a strong leader and commander in chief. ●             American...