The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences broke with tradition and presented its honorary Oscars off-camera Saturday night, months ahead of the televised ceremony in March. ...more

November 16, 2009

CNN host Lou Dobbs says he is leaving CNN effective immediately. ...more

November 11, 2009

The fury of Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and other nativists in response to the news that the prime suspect wanted for the murder of Chandra Levy is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador could easily be dismissed as racism. But complicating matters is that most Americans probably agree with them. ...more

March 1, 2009

One beauty of the Internet is that you can research topics of interest. So, when Phoenix Sheriff Joe Arpaio was mentioned as a good role model for our sheriff position by Sheriff Benton's challenger and his supporters, I looked him up on the net. ...more

September 14, 2008

If you've been listening to Mike Huckabee or John Edwards on the presidential trail, you may have heard that the U.S. is becoming a nation of rising inequality and shrinking opportunity. We'd refer those campaigns to a new study of income mobility by the Treasury Department that exposes those claims as so much populist hokum. ...more

November 15, 2007

After reading the Nov 4 piece on "citizen Macklin" and his legislative objectives, I think it is past time to send him to law school where he may be disabused of some of his less than democratic viewpoints on American government and learn some American history. His six years as mayor of Avon Park has taught him little about the democratic process and his enthusiasm for Mexican bashing is his attempt to lever himself to higher offices for which he is manifestly unqualified. ...more

November 11, 2007