BY BILL GREENER
Did you read about the wife of the conservative Republican governor who spoke before a traditional marriage group and said that only “cowards” had prevented the state legislature from passing a law to guarantee the preservation of traditional marriage?  Surely, you saw the editorial denouncing her for interfering in such a sensitive subject.  You remember [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
In the 1981 classic movie, Absence of Malice, lead character Michael Gallagher tells reporter Meghan Carter that everything she wrote about him was accurate, but none of it was true.
I thought of that line as I watched the State of the Union speech January 24.  Everything the President said that night was accurate, [...]

BY GARY JOHNSON
Reprinted from Loose Change at TCBMag.com

The SOPA and PIPA legislation was inevitable. I’ve been doing a broken-record whine on digital privacy for years and it’s finally coming to roost inside the Beltway. Although the current legislation attempts to block piracy, coming legislation will address today’s open market on [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The Long Run was one of the best albums ever produced, and I was thinking about the title song on Tuesday.
I have long believed that our federal government is far too focused on short-term thinking, and our policies are not built for the long run. And I think that most voters [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
One of the big things about the State of the Union address is talking about which Cabinet Secretary has been sent to an undisclosed location in case the Capitol Building goes up in a cloud of neutrons and there is no one left to run the government.
Last night that honor went [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
NBC’s Brian Williams Monday night focused almost half of the Florida presidential debate, not on substantive issues but on negative ads and who is saying what to whom and what they’re saying back. It was more than 32 minutes into the debate before he posed a question on a real issue–Iran.
The [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
If only these debates were important, or moved votes, or caused some changes in the race, I might not mind that they come about every 18 hours.
You know what happened in South Carolina: In five days, including two debates, the race turned upside down and what appeared to have been a [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
I was listening with half an ear to cable news Monday when I heard a correspondent reporting from the Penn State campus on the death of legendary coach Joe Paterno.  She said people didn’t think he died of cancer.  They think he died of a broken heart.
I can believe that. My [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
I was wrong.
I wrote a blog post a couple of years ago where I made the claim that Stephen Colbert is not funny.
My friend Gayle Osterberg said I was wrong and she was right.
Colbert is funny. But these days, he is not only funny. He is funny and his humor [...]

BY GARY JOHNSON
Reprinted from Loose Change at TCBMag.com
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9
When Groupon first burst on the scene, it was easy to get caught up in the excitement of what appeared to be the iTunes of couponing, [...]