Quick Poll
Does your Thanksgiving travel plans include staying at home, traveling in-state or traveling out-of-state?
- In-State: 1
- Out-of-State: 2
- Stay Home: 4
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Health care bill important to everyone but American public
November 18 | 6:20 AM | Comments (0)
How out of touch are they in the Washington, D.C., bubble, in which Congress and the media live?
Mr. Boortz's opus: Why talk radio really matters
Posted 11/18/2009 | Comments (0)
Back in the 1990s, an admittedly sappy movie was made for less than $7 million, but it reaped $80 million at the box office. "Mr. Holland's Opus" starred Richard Dreyfuss as a high school music teacher who tenaciously plodded along the daily grind of teaching music. All the while, he was privately composing his own "An American Symphony," apparently never to be performed.
Any political machine can come to an end
Posted 11/10/2009 | Comments (0)
An upcoming municipal election may reveal some clues about the drift of American politics, and about the nature of politics itself.
The people deserve the prize
Posted 11/4/2009 | Comments (0)
I almost had this column finished. Then I hit delete.
Swing state senators face health care reform threat -- losing next election
Posted 10/28/2009 | Comments (0)
By and large, the pundit class has it that momentum now favors passage of a national health care program. There's a fly in the ointment, however.
A conservative stimulus that worked
Posted 10/21/2009 | Comments (0)
It's rare when a liberal Democratic U.S. senator like New York's Chuck Schumer and a conservative like Sen. John Cornyn of Texas can agree on any piece of major legislation, much less on national television. But this last week both agreed that legislation sponsored earlier this year by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., was sound stuff. The law is designed to provide tax credits for first-time homebuyers. It has helped bring a pulse back into the housing market.
When Tom DeLay is dancing, you know the world is in trouble
Posted 10/14/2009 | Comments (0)
It's my genuine belief when the ball in Times Square dropped and displayed the year "2000" nine years ago, something must have occurred to transform our nation and the world into a permanent version of "Alice in Wonderland."
GOP return to power could be swift
Posted 10/6/2009
The D.C. pundits think they have it nailed. Sure President Obama and the Democrats have slipped from their mighty post-election high approval ratings. But the Republicans have no message and no candidates and are a party that has allowed itself to become marginalized because of an over-reliance on the support of Southern whites.
Carter's ill-advised effort to atone
Posted 9/30/2009 | Comments (0)
Oh, the irony that former President Jimmy Carter has claimed big headlines by saying that South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst against Barack Obama during the president's speech last week was racially motivated.
Why Obama's losing support
Posted 9/26/2009 | Comments (0)
It's easy to attack a leader. And yet President Obama says he wants input from Republicans. When I was politically active, including nationally, I was heavily involved on the GOP side of things. So here's a constructive memorandum to the president. It's based on both experience and on some of the nonpartisan polls our firm conducts.
Small state senate race in Florida may explain future of National GOP
Posted 9/16/2009 | Comments (0)
It has been my contention for the past decade that when it comes to politics, as Florida goes, so goes the nation.
British release one savage while banning 'Savage' talk show host
Posted 9/7/2009 | Comments (0)
I won't go into it again about my years as a student in England and how much I love that country and the university where I received my degree. It is irrelevant to the "Alice in Wonderland" situation that just keeps getting more bizarre -- Britain's banning of American conservative talk radio host Michael Savage from entering their country. Now, it looks like the British government not only banned the wrong Savage, it also released from prison a genuine savage.
February prediction proves true: Obama is new Jimmy Carter
Posted 9/2/2009 | Comments (0)
It's as simple as this: Just as semi-rural Georgia politics of the mid-1970s couldn't be imposed on the Washington establishment, Chicago-style, brute-force politics doesn't work, either. Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress started digging a hole when they decided to force-feed massive health care reform on the American people in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis. And with every town hall meeting, press conference and leak of a new strategy, they just keep digging that hole deeper.
Crist may be GOP's test case
Posted 8/26/2009 | Comments (0)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Several months back, I suggested that Florida Gov. Charlie Crist was the perfect moderate politician to help bring independent voters back to the Republican Party. Crist had just announced his plans to skip a second term as governor and instead seek the U.S. Senate seat held by the retiring Mel Martinez.
Is significant drop in African-American support in President Obama's future?
Posted 8/19/2009 | Comments (0)
It's just one state. But it's one of the centers of African-American culture and influence in the nation. Atlanta with nearly six million residents in its metro area is home to hundreds of top black musicians and other entertainers, civil rights leaders and business entrepreneurs. Janet Jackson, Usher, Tyler Perry and Andrew Young are just a handful of the many big names that can be found moving about the city on a given day.
Is Hillary getting RFK treatment?
Posted 8/12/2009 | Comments (0)
Several weeks ago, the press was full of stories that pointed out Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's absence from important international confabs. Even the most "mainstream" of publications suggested that America's real foreign policy was being forged from the same epicenter as healthcare reform, energy policy and virtually every other major initiative -- the White House.
Obama surrounded by chaos
Posted 8/3/2009 | Comments (0)
Six months into his presidency, Barack Obama finds himself where he likely never expected -- surrounded by chaos. Some of it is admittedly the result of the Bush years, when banks, lenders, financial institutions, Wall Street and a host of others ran our economy slap into the ground. Then the lot of them got rescued. And now one blue-chip "investment banking firm" -- which has suddenly become a blue-chip regular bank -- announced it would put over 70 percent of its profits into salary and bonuses as a strategy in a war among top "investment firms" for talent. What talent?
Americans oppose health care proposal
Posted 7/27/2009 | Comments (0)
Let's discuss a subject that may appear either to have been beaten to death or to be a done deal -- the proposed health reform bill the House of Representatives passed out of committee. Let me make it clear that my company, a polling firm, has no client in the health care arena. Perhaps we should, because the national survey we conducted for one of the publications we own indicates clearly that while the House and President Obama may love the proposal, the American public hates it.
While king of pop is memorialized, 7 lonely caskets return from war
Posted 7/20/2009 | Comments (1)
I'm not a Michael Jackson hater. I liked his music, partly because it was part of my life as a young man. And I never judge people and their morals. Unless convicted by a court of law, it's really between them, the truth -- whatever that might be -- and their maker.
Taxation without representation
Posted 7/15/2009 | Comments (0)
Who are the richest people in town? Here's a hint: Every dime they have is disposable income.
Critical swing state appears to oppose health care proposals
Posted 7/8/2009 | Comments (0)
I've always thought that "national horserace" polls in presidential elections are silly, even though my firm must conduct them, too. We all learned dramatically in 2000 that the popular vote of the nation as a whole means nothing if a candidate doesn't carry the electoral vote -- and that means winning key swing states.