Mark Halperin inappropriately uttered the exact word to describe President Obama’s demeanor at his White House press conference yesterday on the set of MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, and then, immediately, apologized.  The word should not have been used to describe the President of the United States, but I suspect it will stick, so suitably tailored […]

If you have ever been to Roosevelt Island – that sliver of land parked in the East River between Manhattan and Queens – it is likely that one word immediately came to mind: Government. Roosevelt Island is the Brazil City of New York. It was government planned and government executed.  Its buildings are concrete slabs.  […]

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro reacts to news that warm-up suits are 30% off at the Miami Beach Sports Authority as protege Hugo Chavez eagerly looks on.

A report in today’s Toronto Star says John Lennon was a closet Republican, according to his former personal assistant.  I’m not sure I buy it, but it’s sure to arouse some passions among the Strawberry Fields crowd. Something tells me Paul will soon be chiming in.

I can’t help but revive this item from a few months back on the potential of Andrew Cuomo launching a new strain in the Democratic Party. “The Cuomo Democrats” the piece was called. Cuomo, Quinnipiac just announced, is at present time, the most popular governor in America.  His trick?  He is a fiscally conservative Democrat […]

North Korea is disintegrating in slow motion. The biggest headline on the Hermit Kingdom today is the country’s womens soccer team losing to the Americans in a match in Dresden.  (The North Korean coach is dubiously claiming that his players were struck by lightning before the game.) But the bigger story is that Kim Jong-Il […]

Village Voice under wraps This is rich. Village Voice staffers are planning a strike.  It seems the radical newspaper’s current publishers are…businessmen. Yuck! They want/need to reform employee health care and retirement benefits. The 56-year-old leftist rag  has hit hard times in recent years, and, just like the companies and governments the Voice gleefully skewers in every issue, Voice […]

The most recent Marist Poll is out and it shows that fewer than one-third of Americans (31%) approve of President Obama’s handling of America’s debt problem. Sixty-one percent of Americans surveyed disapprove of the President’s handling of the deficit and eight percent are unsure. I know this is a jobs, jobs, jobs election, but America’s long-term […]

http://youtu.be/8DABheis01E This does not look like a good situation…

David Indiviglio pens an interesting piece in The Atlantic this week questioning the college bubble from the employer side.  He wonders if college degrees are necessary for jobs where they clearly are not. Indiviglio argues that ubiquitous college degrees degrade the value of degrees themselves and artificially fuel the higher education industry. (I wrote a piece on […]