In 2013 the women elected to office this week start their new terms. The year also will bring speculation on the fate of women and the Republican Party, as well as who might make a presidential run in 2016. Does the name Hillary Clinton sound familiar? In light of this, GJR is preparing an in-depth

Trying to eliminate the Internet noise during political season seems almost impossible. Myriad news stories from multiple news sources float around in cyberspace. Blathering political pundits on television and radio spew their opinions constantly, with what seems to be little regard for truth or objectivity. Fact-checkers desperately try to keep up with the claims and

Federal spending is out of control under the Obama administration. The health care individual mandate is socialist. President George W. Bush presided over the slowest job growth in half a century. None of these statements — by Republican presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, conservative pundits, and President Barack Obama respectively — stands up to scrutiny.

Every March the argument starts all over again. Media pundits, columnists, analysts, college basketball fans, coaches and just those people who fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets every year all pitch in their two cents over which teams did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament through at-large bids. While making these arguments, these people use

March 2011 has been a cruel month for America’s progressives and liberals. Two of their best known voices, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert, quit their columns on the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times. Readers will miss them. Right-wingers will praise them as worthy opponents and chuckle. Does their absence from our most prestigious newspaper