By Ron Steinman Death is the operative concept that defines the United States Congress, how it works and, frankly, how lately it mostly seems to fail. It is almost as if it wants to fail. Failure is better than softening one’s ideology. We rarely hear that something emerges from Congress that we can describe as [...]
By Ron Steinman Once again into the breach. Readers may consider this is about the Republican Party at its worse. They would be right. If you are a true believer of that persuasion, stop reading now. By my count, the event will be the 12th official Republican candidate for president debate. The date: November 22, [...]
By Ron Steinman In November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments that some legal experts are calling the most important Fourth Amendment case in years. It involves the use by police who placed an unauthorized GPS device on a suspect’s car to track said suspect’s movements. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches [...]
Herman Cain’s ability to nutshell America’s cultural quagmire with catchy one-liners that belittle the less fortunate and baffle honest commentators, has made him the GOP’s flavor of the month. His meteoric rise up the Republican polls, of course, is aided by Mitt Romney’s ability to flip flop with an alacrity that would make John Kerry [...]
by Ron Steinman With the rise of the ultra right in our politics and the emergence of The Tea Party as its bedfellow, I cannot help but think that, lately, we in the United States are on the verge of the apocalypse. Do not think for a minute that the Tea Party represents anything new [...]
