Oct 16, 2012 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Media Issues, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (October 16, 2012) Editor's Note: This represents instant analysis of the presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author's thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here. Here are my first impressions about the second...
Oct 16, 2012 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Media Issues, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (October 16, 2012) Here is my prediction for the second Obama-Romney debate: I think it’s going to be a draw, which will ultimately work slightly to President Barack Obama’s advantage. Because the president was widely viewed as having lost the...
Oct 11, 2012 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Media Issues, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans, Vice President Biden
Published: PolicyMic (October 11, 2012) Editor's Note: This represents instant analysis of the vice presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author's thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here. Here are my first impressions about the...
Oct 11, 2012 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Media Issues, Political Parties, Republicans, Vice President Biden
Published: PolicyMic (October 11, 2012) Some opening thoughts on the upcoming vice presidential debate: - Just as Mitt Romney benefited from low expectations in the first presidential debate, so too will Joe Biden likely walk away as the declared "victor" in this...
Oct 3, 2012 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Media Issues, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012) Here is my last minute prediction on the first Obama-Romney debate: I think Mitt Romney is going to win it. This has nothing to do with the forensic skills of either Romney or Obama, and everything to do with the media....
Sep 3, 2012 | Democrats, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Media Issues, Political Parties, President Obama, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (October 3, 2012) Editor's Note: This represents instant analysis of the presidential debate on Wednesday night. For the author's thoughts in the hour immediately before the debate began, see here. [To see who won the third and final presidential...
Aug 29, 2012 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2012), Immigration, Media Issues, Political Parties, Race and Racism, Republicans
Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012) If you want to refute the widely-disseminated myth of the media having an anti-Republican bias in this election, one need not look any further than this recent incident at the Republican National Convention: The controversy...
Aug 29, 2012 | Media Issues, Science and Technology
Published: PolicyMic (August 29, 2012) (co-authored with Cady McClain) Editor's Note: This article is written by Matthew Rozsa and Cady McClain When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans seven years ago, 80% of the Crescent City was buried under water, spanning an area...
Jul 21, 2012 | Arts and Entertainment, Conservativism, Gun Control, Media Issues, Mental Illness, Political Ideologies
Published: PolicyMic (July 21, 2012) Someone at ABC News needs to be fired. In my article on Mitt Romney's Bain scandal last week, I chided the media for being "pathetic" in its determination to take sides rather than objectively report the facts and demand answers...
Jul 13, 2012 | Elections, Elections - Other, Media Issues, Mental Illness, Scandals
Published: The Morning Call (July 13, 2012), PolicyMic (July 13, 2012) To what extent does the public have the right to know about the mental health of its politicians? This is what we should be asking ourselves after the revelation that Illinois Congressman Jesse...