“I know nothing except the fact of my own ignorance.” — Socrates At his next U.S. Senate debate, should Craig James pledge to Socrates’ humble oath, I’ll change my opinion of him. At the expectation that, should James read this and rush to his Bible, I’ve beaten him to it, and to 1…
Rick Santorum has laid down the challenge. It’s time someone took on that challenge. About godliness, that is. About who’s more godly. That would be Rick Santorum, he says, in contrast to Barack Obama, who has no coin in said fountain. Before discussing the most recent…
In sitcoms, it’s called “Jumping the Shark.” In politics, I’m introducing a term for a political party that loses contact with its essence and forgets its audience. It’s called "passing the ladle." Ladle — as in bearer of a beverage with arsenic sweetener. Suddenly, in the presidential nominating process, it appears…
Where have they been? Where will they be tomorrow? Let’s hope they are in the political discussion for the long haul, countering the incessant propaganda that has placed their health — mothers’ health — under the rolling pin of anti-abortion politics. Women who understand the stakes of reproductive…