It’s wrong to make Cramer scapegoat
Ridicule is often the most painfully just punishment. In that spirit, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart justly and painfully punished CNBC's "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer simply by replaying some of...
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Is it reefer madness?
When Charles Lynch asked local officials for permission to sell a herbal medicine in the town of Morro Bay on the central coast of California, they allowed his request --...
Playing the race card today
Rush Limbaugh's "dittohead" fans might not seem to have much in common with embattled U.S. Sen. Roland Burris' mostly black and liberal supporters. Yet each group, in its own way,...
Limbaugh profits at the GOP’s expense
Rush Limbaugh is now the leader of the Republican Party. Just ask Democrats. On Sunday's "Face the Nation" on CBS, President Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, called Limbaugh...
When prisons jail kids for cash
While many Americans, including me, were caught up in the fury around the New York Post's weird dead chimpanzee cartoon, remarkably less attention was paid to a far more serious...
Cheerful givers, grumpy receivers
God loves a cheerful giver, the Bible says, but what are we to make of grumpy receivers? Several Republican governors, mostly in the South, have roundly attacked President Barack Obama's...
At least the ‘chimp’ cartoon got us talking
When you have to explain a joke, it's not funny. That's the core problem in the dust-up over a New York Post editorial cartoon, a peculiar and confusing creation that...
Obama’s optimism
After the most action-packed first three weeks of any president since maybe Abraham Lincoln, President Barack Obama revealed a subtle but significant change in tone: Maybe bipartisanship wasn't all that...
Is Black History Month already history? Well, it depends
Once again it is Black History Month, a time when Americans of all colors increasingly ask, among other questions, whether we need to have Black History Month. Or maybe we...
The honeymoon is over
Did President Barack Obama screw up by admitting he "screwed up"? It wasn't Obama's most elegant quote, but it was one of his most significant moments. It was so significant...