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.…

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…

The Super Committee is in control.

By now you know their names; if not, look them up—six Republicans and six Democrats—half of which represent the House and the other half, the Senate. They are lawmakers, members of the United States Congress. They have been tasked with pulling together what…

Big Time College Sport is a cesspool, and Big Time College Football is its bilge pump.

It is, among other tawdry depravations, legal child abuse, as “student athletes” earn millions for universities and state schools in exchange for a laughable modicum of “free education,” which a fair portion rarely absorb…