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, [...]

BY GARY JOHNSON
Reprinted from Loose Change at TCBmag.com
I had lunch the other day with a very successful investor and entrepreneur. He came to the United States from Iran as a young teenager. The extreme dichotomy that is Iran is fascinating to say the least—a huge country of well-educated people who, when given [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
When I first started on Capitol Hill (23 years ago…man, I am getting old), I was not terribly sophisticated in the world of politics. For example, I couldn’t quite come to grips that one of the most powerful men in the House of Representatives had the same last name as a [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The Club for Growth fancies itself a savvy investor in a better, more pro-business Congress.
With a Board of Directors stacked with Wall Street millionaires, the organization was founded in 1999 by now-Wall Street Journal editorialist Stephen Moore. It quickly made a name for itself by running advertisements against Republican politicians who [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com and Townhall.com
When political professionals get together to discuss things like ads, campaign tactics, and debates they know the only thing that matters in the end is: “Did it move votes?”
That’s the question I was asking myself as I watched the five-man Fox debate last night from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
The Obama Presidency is a wonder to watch.  Barack Obama is making changes, which taken together—the sum of their parts—are transforming government and politics in disturbing ways it will take years and maybe decades to reverse.
His presidency is the triangulation of three distinct characteristics of politics and government.
First, the Obama Presidency is an [...]