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Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:31:59 +0000 – By Jon Kraushar Communications Consultant President Obama can now repeat what he said to Republican congressional leaders when they questioned him on January 23 about his stimulus plan. “I won.” The pronoun is instructive. Obama, personally, won at last night’s press conference. He …

The humanitarian crisis of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children streaming across the U.S.-Mexican border not only poses painful immediate policy choices, but further confounds our already polarized national dialogue on long-term immigration policy. Regarding this particular influx, it can be blamed on a 1998 law aimed at …

The death of the Tea Party has been greatly exaggerated. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary Tuesday night to David Brat, a man who was significantly outspent.Cantor spent $5 million to Brat’s $122,000. The media will play up Cantor’s loss by claiming it was about immigration.They will be …

Three of the four installments of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which claims to show the state of the global climate system under stress, are now available. All three show things are seriously amiss – although not necessarily with the …

There are reports coming out of the administration that members of the alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab’s family have come to the United States and, with their urging, he is cooperating with interrogators. Maybe, but this is still no way to run a railroad. In this case we have …

Let’s say a white guy goes on television, puts on an exaggerated “Amos ‘n Andy” “black voice” and proceeds to make fun of a black man whose politics the white guy doesn’t like. Actually, let’s say he goes beyond merely making fun of the black man. Let’s say he tries …

Has anyone noticed that President Obama’s newfound affection for democracy in the Middle East has not resulted in a call for an end to the autocratic regime of Saudi Arabia? We also have heard of no serious protests in Saudi Arabia — although we will see what the planned “day …

It didn’t start out well: the 47% of Americans who approved last week of the U.S. air strikes in Libya ordered by President Obama is lower than for any other military action since WWII, according to a new Pew poll. By comparison, here are the percentages of Americans who approved …

If the mainstream media’s obsession with Oakland, California-based radio magnate Harold E. Camping teaches us anything — it should be that our country hosts a Rapture Industrial Complex (RIC) of sizable proportions. The RIC is a multimedia colossus that involves books, radio, movies, TV, newspapers, and dog care service providers. …

Millions of Americans will head to beaches and barbeques this Memorial Day weekend, perhaps even hundreds of millions, while only hundreds of thousands are likely to attend formal Memorial Day observances devoted to remembering the men and women who have given their lives so that the rest of us could …