News Flash: Americans Aren’t Anti-Worker

When Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker decided to use a battle over his state’s budget deficit to go after public-sector workers, a lot of folks in the mainstream media thought this was a smart move. People are tired of “overpaid” government workers and...

Islamophobia is Un-American

Earlier this year, hundreds of people turned out in Yorba Linda, California to protest the appearance of two highly controversial Muslim speakers at a dinner held to benefit local charitable projects. The scene outside the social hall quickly turned ugly, even...

NPR’s Stupid Situation

National Public Radio is having a tough time. It’s being beaten up and knocked down, its good name dragged through the mud. It hurts to watch stumble after bumble by executives of this smart radio network. (It’s still smart if you listen to it, but behind...

Delivering for America, Six Days a Week

You may not realize how much small towns and rural areas depend on the mail until someone puts it like this: “Folks who die after midnight on a Friday could be buried before their relatives read about the death in my Monday edition.” That’s what the...

Detroit’s Ruins

Poor Detroit. The bad news never stops. The once-proud miracle of capitalism is the urban equivalent of a homeless family living under a bridge, digging in dumpsters for scraps. Having already gone through its “Crime Capital” phase, it has become the...

Sarah Palin and the Dozen Dwarfs

There are those–I won’t name them, they know who they are–who have taken to calling the slate of Republican presidential hopefuls “Sarah Palin and the Seven Dwarfs.” That’s unfair. There are way more than seven GOP politicians ready...