The New York Times, America’s paper of record, doesn’t shout its social commentary from the proverbial rooftops. On Sunday, June 12, one of the paper’s seminal insights about what’s happening in America did make it to page 1, although disguised as a lifestyle tale about our country’s super-rich. The story, “For the Executive With Everything, a…
It used to take a news cycle – or at least the evening news or the morning newspaper – to be the first to report political gaffes by politicians, former politicians, presidential wannabes and former vice-presidential candidates. No more. Tweeting, twittering and blogging of Sarah Palin’s rewriting of Paul Revere’s midnight ride took less time…
Front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination Mitt Romney increasingly is being put under the media microscope. That’s proper and the way it should be for any viable presidential nominee. However, the media should not give credence to those bashing Romney’s Morman religion, including voices such as those of Warren Cole Smith, Charles Chaput an research…
Violent tornadoes ripped through much of the Midwest and Southern Plains during the last few days. People died, not just in Joplin but throughout the region. More people might have died during the storms if it weren
