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“You Want an Olive Branch?”

January 24th, 2013   •   no comments   

During my January 22nd blogtalkradio.com show, I commented on a headline I had read earlier that day about some GOP leaders who were “disappointed” in President Obama’s second Inaugural Address. Why, you ask? Well, according to one of the many sources, the right-leaning Wall Street Journal, the President, in their view, didn’t offer them “an olive branch.” Really? Then today, with the story still spinning madly in the media, the incredibly disappointing and somewhat disjointed Senator McCain, who has exhibited a nearly unbroken stream of vitriol and disapproval at all things Obama and Democratic since he lost his own run [ Read More ]

“Lancing Lance”

January 18th, 2013   •   no comments   

There’s not a lot to say about Lance Armstrong and the mess in which he now finds himself that isn’t already being written and screamed about on every media channel. Pundits and talking heads have been having a field day with this since Lance first announced he was finally going to admit to doping while cycling, and with the TV interview with Oprah Winfrey airing tonight, the noise will continue to go on indefinitely. Thursday morning, another key, devastating blow fell when the IOC announced it was stripping Lance of the Olympic Medal he won in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. [ Read More ]

“Have We Become a Killing Machine?”

December 18th, 2012   •   no comments   

There is little to say that hasn’t already been expressed. Our hearts are, indeed, shattered, our minds stunned, our sensibilities wrenched by the latest event in the obscenely long litany of massacres that have occurred in our country in recent years. While the tragedy of Newtown was no more horrendous than Columbine or Oregon or any of the other shootings that have taken lives in unspeakable ways, this particular moment appears to have hit a chord long overdue in this country, perhaps because it involved the loss of so many innocent children. And maybe, it was also amplified further because [ Read More ]