For ninety interminably long minutes on 1/24/12, the president of the United States played his hand. All that anyone needs to know about the obligatory laundry list cum base rouser that usually fills a final first-term State of the Union address is that it’s going to be the Summer of…

“It is futile to fight against, when one doesn’t know what one is fighting for.”

-Ayn Rand

For all intents and purposes, the Republican Primary season is over. The unprecedented victories in both Iowa and New Hampshire by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney have taken the starch out of things.…

Iowa Caucuses Dilate Republican Ranks

Reince Priebus is not a drinker. Friends say he will occasionally sip white wine at corporate functions to appear erudite or nurse a beer at $1,000-a-plate fundraisers to better affect grassroots credibility. But these mere acts of social obligation are usually seen as a civilized…

READERS RESPONSES

One week to go before the Republican Primaries and the response for THE RON PAUL FACTOR – Issue: 12/21/11 challenges any this space has received in nearly 15 years. Here are the highlights:

The way the campaign carnivals have danced their way onto the media stage…

This will be the last column I pen this year, in the final days of this twelfth month of 2011, and I choose to write about the number 12.

In a few days we embark on 2012, and each year I try and end the previous one with a tag…

Iowa & the Soul of the Grand Old Party

Soon the nation will learn where the Republican Party stands.

In less than three weeks, the Iowa Caucus will begin the painstaking selection of a presidential candidate. This is when polls, punditry and prognostication become fact. So… who represents the party…

In Praise of A Riveting New Biography on Howard Cosell

“May you live in interesting times.”

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

“My disposition demands the immediacy of translation of effort into result.”

- Howard Cosell

I last sent words to press on the subject of Howard Cosell…

Bored, Drunk & Hiding In Mexico While The World Spins

Mid-afternoon in Salsita’s Café, a garishly authentic dive near the historic town square of San Jose, Mexico. The glorious quiet is accented with an aroma of fresh salsa fresca and bean spices wafting from its kitchen, inspiring a wave…

James,

You have it rather correct here. (AMERICAN YOUTH – MOVEMENT, FAD OR VOICE? – Issue: 10/26/11.) In fact, if this Occupy thing has no effect on motivating and activating kids then nothing will. Let’s face it, in the ‘80s everyone was wrapped up in getting theirs. We had…

Discovering the Truth in Lying with a Rare Folk Trio

I am riding shotgun in a rented van crawling up Fourth Avenue with Common Rotation, a road weary L.A. folk trio who has taken a one-day respite from supporting the Indigo Girls’ American tour to back their favorite…