Herman Cain is in

Herman Cain announced yesterday that he is a candidate for President of the United States. I am not a perfect policy match with him, but then I’m not a perfect policy match with anyone but me, and I don’t want the job. I do know that I’m ready to have a president who knows where … Read more

Cleansing GOP fires, round 1

Well, I, for one, am well and truly shocked that Donald Trump has withdrawn from the 2012 presidential race.  It’s a real shame when a serious, grounded, person of principle like Trump, who is not at all an egomaniacal freak show, can’t receive the serious coverage he deserves from a mass media machine all too … Read more

“What Islamic leader today is preaching sweetness and light?”

If you’re not yet past the dangerous fantasy that the radical elements in Islam are rather like the radical elements of any other world religion, I invite you to read this morning’s piece by Michael Knox Beran.  The piece is different because rather than once again tiredly “proving” the obvious to a determinedly closed-minded sociocultural … Read more

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