Tag Archives: american

Despite Romney’s Gaffes, The Presidential Race Is Tightening

Don’t count him out yet. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) The race for the presidency is getting closer and closer by the day. While last week it looked like it could be a runaway victory for President Obama, new…

Adrenaline-pumping ways to see fall colors

A Cruise via Air Mauiva’s All-American East AirCruiseDeparting from Farmingdale, NYhttp://www.mauivaaircruise.com/ ; The AirCruise packages feature flights on a private plane to multiple destinations across North America with private guided tours at each stop to enjoy the fall colors. “The…

The ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ at 50 — how would Jethro vote in 2012?

Fifty years ago today CBS introduced a new TV series that sharply divided American cultural opinion.Critics and intellectuals hated it, and it became for them a symbol of how far television had fallen since the so-called “golden age” of live,…

What Americans know that Obama and Romney do not

Mitt Romney’s off the record remarks are potentially a very serious problem for him. By dividing the country into those who pay taxes and those who don’t pay taxes, the former Massachusetts governor has made both a substantive error and…

What Obama must do next with Egypt

The entirely unjustified and outrageous embassy attacks –on 11th anniversary of 9/11 no less — underscore an alarming shift in public opinion that ;is clear, quantifiable, and growing exponentially within the Arab Street since the onset of the Arab Spring…

Obama’s convention speech no game changer

One thing became clear Thursday night in Charlotte and that is that Barack Obama is no Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton riveted the hall Wednesday night with a spirited defense of President Obama, support for bipartisanship and a very clear notion…

Illegal souvenirs that could land you in trouble

During fiscal year 2011, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency says it seized more than 60,000 Kinder Eggs because the small plastic toys inside the chocolate shell could pose a choking hazard for young children. (CBP.gov) U.S. Customs and…

Romney takes a giant step in the right direction

Accepting his party’s nomination for president Thursday night in Tampa Mitt Romney delivered a solid speech. It succeeded in beginning the process of humanizing the former Massachusetts governor. ;It demonstrated his comittment to women and his view of government. It…