Opinion Forum

What Could Herman Cain Have Done to Revive His Damaged Candidacy?

November 17th, 2011

By Dan Miller A postmortem I drafted this article about a week ago and have updated it to reflect current realities. Due to the recent declines in Mr. Cain’s standing, there may be little sense in publishing it now. Nevertheless, here goes. Many articles have claimed that Mr. Cain and his staff bungled their responses [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Cain, charges, cross examination, polygraph, response, sexual harassment
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Herman Cain Is Finished

November 3rd, 2011

By Tom Carter Herman Cain is finished as a serious contender for the Republican presidential nomination. The decline of his chances to win the nomination may be faster or slower, but it’s over. And it was inevitable. Sexual harassment charges from his days as head of the National Restaurant Association are getting more serious every [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Cain, campaign, charges, organization, Romney, sexual harassment, staff
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Lots of Lame Horses in This Race

October 3rd, 2011

By Tom Carter Like many other folks, I’ve watched most of the Republican primary debates and read and heard a lot of media reporting and commentary. Often — too often — political contests are explained in sports terminology, especially with terms drawn from horse racing. In that spirit, all I can say is that it [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Cain, Christie, debates, Huntsman, loser, Republican, Romney, winner
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I’m Terrified for My Daughters

September 28th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor I have two young daughters and, in some ways, I’m really excited that they are growing up in this generation. These are amazing times to be young and female with so many opportunities available to them. More women than men are graduating from college and earning graduate degrees. We see women [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: appearance, culture, discrimination, girls, glass ceiling, men, women
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Texas Toast: Rick Perry, Ted Kennedy, Roger Mudd and 1979 Redux

September 28th, 2011

By Richard D. Bailey “Why do you want to be President?” It was the question that killed a candidacy the national media had conceived, created and cajoled. Ted Kennedy’s famous flub of a simple question asked by Roger Mudd on a national broadcast in November 1979 accomplished two things. First, it paved the path for [...]

Articles written by Guest Author
Tags: Carter, Christie, debates, Kennedy, Perry, primaries, reporters, Texas Toast
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He Promised Change

September 17th, 2011

By Richard D. Bailey He promised “Change.” In 2008, with a brilliant strategy, Clinton/Bush fatigue, an aspirational biography and a natural grace and eloquence before adoring crowds that brought the media world and popular culture to wistful, teary longings for the time of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Barack Obama mastered the moment and [...]

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Tags: change, defeat, eloquence, failure, hope, Obama, promises, slogan
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Peace Beat

September 11th, 2011

By Jan Barry War drums began beating across America before the dust settled at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. It’s an all-American tradition to march to the beat for military action, the fountain of flag waving excitement that produces legions of war correspondents, bugle-blaring headlines and armchair commandos in newsrooms. It is rare [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, budget, Iraq, Keller, peace, Pentagon, war
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First Amendment Rights of Individuals Are Equal to those of Traditional Media

August 27th, 2011

By Dan Miller In Glik v. City of Boston, et al, a Mr. Glik had used his cellular phone to video and audio tape a police encounter with a man on the Boston Common. He was arrested for doing so but charges were thereafter dropped. He then filed suit in Federal District Court alleging violation [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: arrest, Boston, filming, First Amendment, Glik, police, press, video
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Life in America: Advertising

August 25th, 2011

By Tom Carter As some may have noted, a couple of months ago I relocated from Europe to Texas. I lived overseas for many years, most recently the past decade or so in Serbia. Even though I spent a couple of months each year in the U.S. for various reasons, I really wasn’t immersed in [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: advertising, America, commercials, Europe, gecko, internet, junkmail
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If You Had Sex with Rick Perry, Raise Your Hand

August 18th, 2011

By Tom Carter Well, we’re off to the races! According to Salon.com, a Ron Paul supporter is running an ad in an alternative newspaper in Austin raising the question we all want asked: “Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?” The ad calls for a response from strippers, escorts, and young hotties who may have [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: escorts, gay, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, sex, strippers
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Where Are the Children?

August 10th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor See the photo? A neighbor of mine, Larry Mansbach, emailed it to me because he thought it would make a good blog post. Well, he’s right. The photo was taken on a beautiful July Saturday afternoon at the fields and playground of an elementary school in Marin County (please hold the [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: activities, children, culture, parenting, sports, summer
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Toxic Trails

July 15th, 2011

By Jan Barry Residents of a once-isolated mountain community in Ringwood, NJ have a bone-chilling tale to tell the rest of America. And HBO is offering its cable television services to help convey this story via a new documentary called Mann v. Ford. Highlighting the community’s fight against a plague of illness and deaths they [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: cancer, children, deaths, EPA, Ford, lawsuit, New Jersey, superfund, toxic
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Casey Anthony and the Death Penalty

July 10th, 2011

By Tom Carter There’s all kinds of talk in the media and among people in general about the Casey Anthony case. Mostly, there’s anger about the fact that she was acquitted on the charges of first degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated manslaughter. The most outraged are the TV talking heads, many of them [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: Casey Anthony, death penalty, evidence, innocence, justice, mistakes
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Vietnam GI Challenged War Makers

June 1st, 2011

By Jan Barry One of the most outlandish protests of the war in Vietnam, in the eyes of minders of military tradition, was a small independent newspaper, “Vietnam GI,” published by Jeff Sharlet, a feisty veteran of the early secretive stage of the conflict. With a top secret clearance and training in translating Vietnamese, Sharlet [...]

Articles written by Jan Barry
Tags: anti-war, FBI, GI, Jeff Sharlet, newspaper, underground, Vietnam, VVAW
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Please Fire the Pundits!

May 23rd, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor I should be a pundit. According to a new study, I possess the two qualities most predictive of accurate prognostication. More on that shortly. You should be a pundit; you have as much chance of being correct in your predictions as most pundits. More on that a bit later too. Remember [...]

Articles written by Dr. Jim Taylor
Tags: accuracy, blogs, internet, Krugman, predictions, pundits, Sowell
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The Media Should Not Question Police Activity

May 21st, 2011

By Dan Miller The media should not question police activity – to do so is disgraceful! So says Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. There has been more media coverage of the Pima County, Arizona SWAT team raid that resulted in a twenty-six year old former Marine dead with sixty slugs in his corpse. The Tucson, [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: Dupnik, killing, Marine, medical, Pima County, police, satire, warrant
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Conservative Media Bias

May 13th, 2011

By Tom Carter “Nothing more important” than a government job…. That headline on the Drudge Report today caught my attention. It was boxed with and just below another item, “Obama Tells Companies to ‘Step Up’ and Hire Workers.” The obvious implication was that President Obama thinks there is no job more important than working for [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: agenda, bias, conservative, context, leadership, private, public, sector
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Rush Limbaugh on the Killing of Osama bin Laden

May 4th, 2011

By Tom Carter I listen to Rush Limbaugh now and then, just as I sample the likes of Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow. It’s interesting to hear what they have to say, given that they and talkers like them reflect — or guide — political thinking on the left and right. For that reason, I [...]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: bin Laden, Bush, credit, failure, Guantanamo, Limbaugh, Obama, success
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Trump Scores an Important Victory…Over the Media

April 10th, 2011

By Seth Forman Donald Trump is a shameless self-promoter. His prowess as a developer and businessman has been greatly exaggerated. He has crawled around in the muck and mire of what now passes for popular culture, and deserves at least some of the blame for tawdry’s victory over grace in that sphere. He is an [...]

Articles written by Seth Forman
Tags: birth certificate, citizenship, foreign policy, Muslim, Soetoro, Trump
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Microwave Mind Control? Federal Research Funds Needed

April 4th, 2011

By Dan Miller At least modest coverage has been given by the tabloid press to claims of secretive governmental efforts at mind control through the use of microwave technology. Recent incidents of incoherent blathering by television news personalities have been attributed to those efforts: [T]he presenters have started off speaking properly but have then descended [...]

Articles written by Dan Miller
Tags: confusion, conspiracy, microwave, mind control, nonsense, satire, speech
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