The situation in Afghanistan weighs more and more heavily on us. I took it up in a Huffington Post piece a while back titled Could Barack Obama Suffer The Fate of LBJ?

Many wish the war on terror to be translated from a military...

We need to clear up confusion between public and private when it comes to transportation and creating new human settlements.

We presently allow OUR public rights of way to be filled with private automobiles. This leads to a pollution-congestion problem which is not merely inhuman but also deadly to...

By Stephen C. Rose

Since I write a political blog and have no particular brief to write about TV advertisements, I thought long and hard about doing anything at all.

But Huff offers an ideal platform for the sort of piece where one hangs a bit of personal umbrage...

By Stephen C. Rose

Oddly, no one has thought to compare the situations of Barack Obama and LBJ, but there are similarities. And, happily, redemptive differences.

If Barack succeeds, as I believe he will, it will be because he was NOT a replica of LBJ.

Simply stated, Barack...

You can see it all in retrospect. Sean Hannity and his cohorts at FOX saturated the world with Wright and drove the Wright Issue into the ground. And now the desperate Rev. Wright swiftboating that saturated the media yesterday sinks like a stone. We tune it out like ads we...

By Stephen C. Rose

I doubt anyone remembers a Presidential candidate saying we have a righteous wind at our back, but these remarkable words are now part of Barack's closing stump speeches.

The phrase makes sense, given the Faustian drama we're in.

The McCain forces, believing wealth and success...

The latest on the Obama Campaign in Arizona from Politico:

Barack Obama campaign manager David Plouffe announced Friday that the campaign will be airing ads in John McCain's home state of Arizona for the first time this election cycle.

"We think things are tightening...

How apposite. It's wonderful to come upon Gretchen Morgenson's lucid parsing of the current crisis. John McCain should read it -- maybe he would then stop erroneously assuming that Fannie and Freddie were the sole culprits.

Like the boy who cried wolf, corporate and regulatory officials have issued a...

On a late show on CNN Thursday, David Gergen casually suggests that early voting has been light and hearts sink. Is he right? Here is a survey of available information, rounding up what can be known of early voting with 12 days to go until November 4.

Gergen...

Yesterday I ran the following on my blog:

Tom Brokaw and every other journalist I have seen or read has neglected the following qualification from Bill Ayers which I have published at least twice before in this blog. It is a crucial qualification and the MSM has been...

By Stephen C. Rose

If Barack Obama becomes president, it will be because of grass roots organization. The people who will make the difference on November 4 are the paid and volunteer organizers of the Obama-Biden campaign. Their secret lies in a simple principle:

You organize not by getting adherents,...

Some time ago, I found 194 things Barack Obama would do as President. I took them from the plethora of Obama policy papers in the issues area of the official Obama site. They are here and here.

There are...

I have argued since March that our current crisis is not economic. It is political, but even that does not go far enough. If I say it is spiritual, I am open to severe misinterpretation. So let me take this tack. It is a crisis of what Dietrich...

By Stephen C. Rose

Somebody had to say it in the MSM. And Joe Klein of TIME has done the honor.

Read the whole Klein piece here.

On Palin

Over the weekend, she picked up on an article in The New York Times, which essentially says that Barack Obama and...

Of the three major cable channels, MSNBC is my runaway favorite.

Part of it is history.

Before I had two digits to my age, I knew every nook and cranny of NBC in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. I was a city boy with city smarts and when I could not...

Today on my blog I am doing a serial examination of the crisis in terms of Republican complicity, the coming congressional races and the need for an Obama landslide. The excerpt below is self explanatory.

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OK, rolling up my sleeves. Here is where you can find...

By Stephen C. Rose

Battle Hymn of Barack Obama

Yes, I watched his lonely protest standing up against the war
Then I heard his stirring challenge to bring change from shore to shore
I could see the people moving toward what he was fighting for
...

By Stephen C. Rose

Each morning I dutifully post links from sites I value for their news sense or opinion pertinence.

Today the general theme is bailout confusion, so I thought I would share the links that relate to this.

In general, my home page today is rife with...

By Stephen C. Rose

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

11:09 AM EASTERN

Today's Palin links carry nothing reflecting yesterday's affair allegation. I have seen nothing to suggest that my thinking about this bursting on the MSM was correct. But the day is not over yet.

The links for today include a skewering...

By Stephen C. Rose

In July, I published Is John McCain's Gambling A Problem?, which concluded:

The MSM have gone far enough to identify the McCain proclivity, but not the extent of his losses, the actual possibility of wrongdoing in connection with his gambling or an effective...