Politics

While I was working on a graduate degree in comparative literature at Indiana University, Dick Lugar was Mayor of Indianapolis and though he was Nixon's favorite Republican mayor, Dick Lugar was not Richard Nixon.

Perhaps, Santorum, the Faith, Family and Freedom mogul, has a different edition of the Bible. Perhaps, his edition has been culled of proverbs related to negotiation. Then again, perhaps, he's merely wearing a mask of faith, family and freedom.

It's not really the makeup or the hair style or the book tours or the late night comedy show appearances that are irritating about Bachmann, but the fact that she's as narcissistic and as self-promoting as Palin with the exception that she has a constituency she ignores.

What's always puzzled me about Glenn Beck's "blackboard theatre" is that, well, Glenn Beck is anti-education.

Rand Paul has demonstrated an inability to articulate in any meaningful way how he can justify racial exclusion by private enterprise.

It is the year 2023. Spanish is now the second language in the US and in some parts of the country, reminiscent of Brussels, street signs are written in both English and Spanish.

As the infrastructure of the country decays, the military budget grows. From what is the American public being protected that we have to spend that much money on defense?

Eldridge Cleaver said, "You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem." Republicans, obstreperous to the point of obscenity, are part of the problem.

The simple fact is this: the United States is bankrupt and will never balance its budget. Never. No one in Congress has a clue as to how to deal with the problem of continuing deficits.

Political nonsense does not evolve into political sense. Rather it replenishes itself on the fiction of the past and reinvents itself as the fiction of the present only to be superseded by a fiction of the future.

It's absolutely unconscionable that the negative reaction to a sitting US President for receiving the Nobel Award would cause the Nobel Committee to defend its decision.

Bi-partisan. Can't listen to a political talk show these days, either from the "left" or the "right" without someone using the word once, twice, even multiple times.