It's Friday. The weather is getting cooler. You might just want a song that makes snuggling up inside seem all the more delightful. I...

There’s been a change in households that will obsolete the politics of family values. Adjusting to this new reality may prove conservative...

Rural areas tend to vote Republican and urban areas tend to vote Democrat. I've often thought that this is for a simple reason. If you l...

Two quick points about current negotiations to avoid falling off the fiscal cliff. One has to do with simple math and the other with simple...

Yesterday we had a delightful Thanksgiving meal with a group of people who were politically aware but not politically boorish, both eager to...

Robert Stein, who shares his extensive wisdom and knowledge at Connecting the Dots , shares this story  as he shakes his head at the outrage...

The Republicans have preserved their brand to include a reputation for fiscal conservatism. This is impressive. Reagan took office promis...

Amos Oz was on Andrew Marr's Start the Week program last week. He told the most perfect story about cruelty as a failure of imaginatio...

Reagan has become to our time what FDR was to 1980, his example a substitute for confronting current reality. By 1980, Americans had stopped...

About a century ago, the gap between the two parties was closer to 20% in any given presidential election. Today it is closer to 2%. Many ...

If you are to blame, you have control over change and improvement. If someone else is to blame, you don't. The Republicans' first ...

The bureau of labor statistics announced that 171,000 jobs were created in October. In addition, they revised numbers for the last two month...

One learns the strangest things about friends' politics on Facebook. The other day, I had a friend post that we should have a flat tax f...

If you wait for Apple stock to climb to $600 from $6 before you buy it, if you wait for it to prove itself, you'll lose out. I'm b...

Today I heard Jimmy Carter talking about the importance of religious moderates in Egypt. I don't think they are. It seems to me that ...

Obama casually commented in the last debate that automatic spending cuts and tax hikes won't kick in next year. He thinks that DC will a...

Cultural differences ...

Listen to the interview here . Cody McKibben is a metaprenuer, a term that deserves explanation. Cody's generation - the group ...