I love it when politicians state that we should penalize companies for moving jobs overseas. It's a great talking point, and it gets us all fired up. We should make it illegal or tax the heck out of them for selfishly ruining our economy. What the politicians and the fired up folks never ask themselves is why did that company move over there in the first place. With the highest corporate tax rate in the world, we're making it fiscally irresponsible for some companies to stay here. If an Apple computers stayed in Cupertino, California, they would face a backlash from shareholders who complained about Apple's profit margin, and Cupertino would not be in a better position for their city council would just have more money to waste.

For those of us who have followed politics, the line "most important election of our lifetime" rings hollow. We've heard it far too many times. Is this the most important election in our lifetimes? Probably. We're looking at a president that is as far left as any we've ever seen, Wilson and Carter included) and his current actions lead us to believe this is only the beginning. "I still have five years!" As for Romney, I have this sneaking suspicion that he may be more conservative than he lets on. I think that Romney, and his advisors, think that the key to victory is not through conservativism. I think that they believe that they are building an ideological machine for mass appeal, and that Reagan couldn't even get elected in...

I used to be a big T.R. fan. I watched specials on the History Channel, and I watched any and every biography I could on the man who shaped our country. They all talked about the usual stuff, but HW Brands' TR: The Last Romantic opened my eyes to the man. It went into greater detail on TR's fight against the business oligarchy of his day. Previous to reading this otherwise flattering bio, I believed it was a different time period, and these businessman had, indeed, grown out of control in their quest for power. Reading through this bio, I stopped numerous times and reread passages mentally screaming, "Now wait a second here!" Needless to say I was shocked. IMHO, TR went from being a politician walking softly but carrying a big...

Ann just loves Ivy league types. If it comes down to two candidates and one attended an Ivy league school, and the other didn't Ann is more prone to back the Ivy leaguer.

If Muhammad Ali had never existed, there would've been a need to create him. We all grew up idolizing this man, but history has taught us what the man has brought to sports. As the first line suggests, the rise of the media, the rise of the internet, and the rise of ESPN's sportsbyte, soundbite methodology may have created a Muhammad Ali, but we can't create a solid argument on what if's. The facts are Ali created the 'look at me' methodology of self-promotion in our modern era and Terrell Owens, Randy Moss, and every player who gets a sack or a three yard touchdown have followed suit. It's become so endemic that a failure to self-promote is now seen as a lack of leadership quality by some.

Although I was too young to appreciate the bias of Cronkite, I think Sowell put it best when he talked about news bias. He talked about how there were times when it was impossible to spot bias in the media, because you don't know what was left on the cutting room floor. How many news stories did Cronkite (and the higher ups and CBS, NBC and ABC) spike because they deemed it harmful to whatever cause they trumpeted. When I first heard that we won the Tet Offensive I was stunned. It went against every story I had ever heard. It seemed impossible, but I guess that's the way it was from the news desks of yesteryear's journalists.

I found it interesting that Obama acted swiftly and with prejudice against Sgt. Crowley by characterizing the man's actions as "Stupidly" after confessing that he didn't know all the facts, but he doesn't want to act in a prejudicial manner against our enemies.

I agree with SonOfTed, it is ridiculous that the Democrat Congress of the Bush Administration receives no blame for the crisis that began in September of '08. Obama provides all the blame to Bush for the downfall, but Obama voted for all the measures that brought the economy down, or at least he didn't vote against them. (I'm not sure which votes he showed up for.) Bush tried, on 17 occasions I believe, to get Congress to reform Freddie and Fannie, but Congress sat back on their laurels, as SonOfTed rightly points out, waiting for a chance at the white house. Did they know that the cataclysmic downturn would occur? Who knows, but I'm sure that one of the seventeen attempts may have at least staved off such a downturn. A conspiracy...

Aside from a love of juicy scandal, human beings, by their nature, believe the worst of their fellow man. If we believe the negative, we believe that this means that we are "real" people. We know the realities of the world, and we know the realities of human nature. If we believe in the positive aspects of human nature, or we dare to even question the negative, we are seen as naive. Take Michael Jackson, for instance, what if he never touched a child in a sexual manner? Am I allowed to question such a thing? What if he was just a very weird individual who had a fondness for children that made us uncomfortable for a man his age? What if he just liked being around them so much that he wanted to be around them all day and all night?...

When Bush was first elected, the economy hit a downturn. Democrats blamed Bush. When Obama first hit office, the economy hit a downturn. The Democrats blamed Bush.