I used to think that anyone pleading the 5th was automatically guilty. Why refuse to answer questions if you have nothing to hide? But my position has evolved, and in a matter of minutes. It happened when I read that Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS tax-exempt organizations division, is going...

An interesting week it has been with events that will have a lasting effect for months, even after this OpinionList is long forgotten, whether we want them or not. 1. A Storm In A Teacup: CS Monitor reports “The heads are starting to roll at the Internal Revenue Service, but it will...

I’ve been saying tweeting it, that Truth had to be about Emily telling Jack that she’s the real Amanda Clarke. That this was the only way to get the show back on track after a dismal second season. Well, told him she did and, as I also predicted,  she told him at the very end of...

As you probably know, the IRS is in hot water with the tea party after it admitted, on Friday, that it had targeted groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names, for a more thorough review of their tax-exempt status applications. According to the Huffington...

Dear Apple, I’m neither a developer nor a tech expert (although compared to my husband and friends, I’m a total techie). No, I’m just a huge fan and I became an avid consumer of your products since you always gave me what I wanted, even before I knew what that was. But...

On Saturday, during his speech at the NRA’s annual convention gun lovefest, Wayne LaPierre asked, “How many Bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago?” This has shocked many, but not me. After all, this is Wayne LaPierre we’re talking about, and while I’m...

I am writing this post bogged down in hesitation. You see, I’m going to criticize two of the most popular segments of President Obama’s speech at The White House Correspondent Dinner (WHCD). I know that most of you thought that it was awesome (it was), and that this was due to the...

In her latest post No Bully in the Pulpit  New York Time’s Op-Ed columnist  Maureen Dowd blames President Obama for the Senate’s recent failure to pass the expanded background check law. She claims that President Obama does not know how to govern, that he doesn’t know...

I had planned to write a post about the war on women. That’s now scrapped. It’s obvious that today’s post had to be on the Boston Marathon bombings. But I still hesitated.  What could I possibly write that hasn’t already been said?  The sadness and outrage that I...

Rep. Steve Stockman’s (R-Texas) statement that “If babies had guns they wouldn’t be aborted” sparked a bunch of mental images and thoughts that I, of course, had never before imagined. The first image was that of a mini gun traveling up the vaginal tract to the fetus....