Here’s this week’s OpinionList. House Passes Ryan’s Budget: Ryan’s budget who aims to balance the federal budget in 10 years on the backs of the poor and elderly passed the House only to be rejected by the Senate.  The latter is indeed good news as it seems that...

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...

I don’t know about you, but I’m still flabbergasted about the Paul Ryan’s soup-kitchen-dishwashing-story, that surfaced two days ago.  Paul Ryan and his family  stopped for 15 minutes at the St. Vincent De Paul Society in Ohio and washed dishes on their way to the...

During the Vice-Presidential debate, Paul Ryan claimed that factors in addition to religion inspired his pro-life position on abortion.  He argued, “It’s not simply because of my Catholic faith. That’s a factor, of course. But it’s also because of reason and science.” Reason and...

As I did with the first presidential debate, I would like to share with you my initial thoughts on the Vice-Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan last night.  Without further delay, here they are: Martha Raddatz -  Margaret Thatcher once said, “In politics, if you want...

This is Sarah Palin’s latest contribution to the political discourse: With so much at stake in this election, both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan should ‘go rogue’ and not hold back from telling the American people the true state of our economy and national security.  America...

The only part of Paul Ryan’s RNC convention speech that I liked was when he spoke about his mom.  He spoke how at 50 years old, when his father died, she earned a degree, started a small business and made the family proud.  He finished by saying how his mom is his role model.  There...

The dictionary defines doublespeak as “deliberately euphemistic, ambiguous and obscure language.” Most politicians are adept and frequent “doublespeakers.”   So much so, that the dictionary further explains the word as:  the art of political doublespeak. But if...