BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
From Great Barrington, MA
Now that we’re deep into the general election campaign – about 72 hours into it – let’s review the rules.
No matter how many times you’ve hear it, it bears repeating that an election for President in the United States are not a national event. It is a collection [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
Rick Santorum called it a day yesterday afternoon.
In one of those weird campaign events, Santorum’s folks tried to keep what the event was to be under wraps until about 2pm Eastern. But, the staff got buffaloed into giving up the fact that Santorum would be “suspending” his campaign so, by the time [...]

BY GARY JOHNSON
Loose Change Reprinted from TwinCitiesMagazine.com
I’ve heard hundreds of wails from people who claim they work 60- to 70-hour weeks. Occasionally, I’ll even hear about someone working 100-plus-hour weeks, the most recent example coming from my own company. The individual just had a heart bypass at age 47. Ahem.
I mostly don’t believe the hours-worked [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
The Trayvon Martin incident is no trivial moment in American history.
Mr. Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman in a Sanford, Florida gated community.  Zimmerman says he was defending himself.  Civil rights leaders and the Martin family believe it was murder.
The Sanford Police Department doesn’t quite know what to believe, and [...]

BY B. JAY COOPER
Reprinted from apcoworldwide.com
One might say that the Etch-a-Sketch is the perfect metaphor for the Republican primary season. One day, Mitt Romney is featured on the screen; the next (shake-a, shake-a) Rick Santorum appears! Shake-a, shake-a, ba da bing – Mitt’s back!! Shake-a, shake-a…well, you get the idea.
Romney’s campaign guy, Eric Fernstrom, [...]

BY JOHN FEEHERY
Reprinted from TheFeeheryTheory.com
Does anyone else find it odd that the President’s campaign team is releasing its Hollywood biopic “The Road We’ve Traveled,” a full six months before the actual election and in the middle of a bloody and nasty Republican primary?
This is not some in-house production. Davis Guggenheim, who put together “Waiting for [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
This column may well generate about 40,000 “Unsubscribes” this morning, but there you are.
In the early 1960s a man named Nico Jacobellis was arrested after the showing of a French movie in his theater by the name of “The Lovers” on the grounds that the film was obscene.
This case would doubtless [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
Alabama and Mississippi. Southern States. States that help define the word “Southern” in the United States.
Rick Santorum, of Pennsylvania – western Pennsylvania, not southern – won them both.
Newt Gingrich made it clear after Nevada that he had a plan to turbocharge his campaign once the primary calendar moved into the South. [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
This will be a test. A civility test. I want to talk about this Rush Limbaugh v Bill Maher business of using really bad words to describe people they don’t agree with.
This is not a discussion about contraception or Obama-care or Women’s reproductive rights or free speech.
It will be a discussion [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
At 10:08 PM Rick Santorum was hanging on to a two percentage point lead in Ohio, but it was a very good night for Santorum no matter what happens as the rest of Ohio’s votes are counted.
The pre-game analysis – by me – was that Romney would probably win Ohio [...]