You may have noticed that I haven’t written anything on politics for about two weeks. The sequester has been the topic du jour  of the month, and continues to be and I haven’t addressed it. What for?  You’ve probably already read everything that you need to know about it...

First day and first Friday in March. Time for this week’s OpinionList. Rosa Parks Honored:  The courage of one woman whose peaceful defiance sparked the Civil Rights movement has been recognized for decades, but never more so than on Wednesday when her statue was unveiled at the...

This is the first OpinionList of 2013 covering the first week of the year.  Cool! And yes, I’m over my New Year’s Eve funk. GOP is devoid of a soul:  It’s not me saying this.  Former Presidential candidate Jon Huntsman does not like the GOP’s aversion to compromise...

Well, we didn’t go over the fiscal cliff.  Personally, I wasn’t too worried about going over it. From everything I’ve read, it seems that the cliff was, in fact, more like a molehill. What I wanted most of all from the negotiations was for President Obama to stick to his...

I don’t like New Year’s Eve.  I never have.   It’s not that we have to look cheerful regardless of how we truly feel, put up with drunks, blow horns and sing the depressing  Auld Lang Syne about forgotten acquaintances and lost love. If it were only that.  No, I think...

As you might know, for a long time, I’ve had a pet peeve with the Democratic party having a jackass for a mascot.  So much so, that I wrote The Donkey Chronicles, a 3-part series about this subject. In Part I: A Donkey? Really? I wondered whose bright idea was it to pick an animal...

As any true, blue-blood Democrat, I can’t stand Karl Rove. I think that he’s a slimy, evil weasel.   However, of the many insults that I have heaped on him, “stupid” has never been one of them. Let’s not forget that this is the guy who got George W. Bush elected...

In October 2010, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Minority Leader said,  ”my number one priority is making sure president Obama’s a one-term president,”  signaling a Republican scorched-earth, obstructionist strategy that has resulted in one of the least effective...