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I have friends who say they hate Rush Limbaugh with a passion, but often listen to him on the radio, nonetheless. More power to them. I can’t do that. Images of Limbaugh and that voice of his

With all the attention to the “social values” issues in the Republican presidential primaries and in backwater places like the newly-GOP controlled Virginia state legislature, one

We are seeing two sharply contrasting approaches to the stubbornly-persisting global economic crisis. One is being applied in Europe, beginning in Greece, and is rooted in a strategy of

The enormous, fabulously extreme, over-the-top disconnect between most Republicans, right-wingers and their Wall Street sponsors and matters of public health and the plight of the poor is swelling

Don’t you hate it when they keep reminding us during the Superbowl that this year’s was Number 46? For those of us who remember the first one, it is just one more reminder of the years

Mitt Romney was wrong in his victory speech after the Florida primary Tuesday night when he attributed to Tom Paine the quote, “Lead, follow or get out of the way.” Although widely

What a stark contrast. All those mud-slinging kids mangling each other with venomous attacks on bank accounts and personal lives on the one hand. The President of the United States on the

Now that unfettered big money, in the form of the so-called Super PACs, are spending twice as much in the upcoming GOP primary in South Carolina as the candidates themselves, more attention is

The Republican presidential primary season has produced, if nothing else, a sense that any given week can make a big difference, which of course has been a boon to the 24/7 news cycle media

Coming out of Tuesday’s GOP caucuses in Iowa, it never ceases to amaze how myopic the major media pundits are. There is nothing yet to establish that the latest GOP “flavor of the