Perhaps from a distance, the Garden State Governor is highly appealing but trust me, for many of us in New Jersey the bloom is off the Christie rose -- a rose that has too many thorns.
Perhaps from a distance, the Garden State Governor is highly appealing but trust me, for many of us in New Jersey the bloom is off the Christie rose -- a rose that has too many thorns.
New York is infamous as a tough lift for any governor who hopes just to keep things under control, let alone actually change things. Andrew Cuomo just may be the most successful governor in America.
Having just gotten back from a trip abroad where the news was dominated by the story of a politician facing severe consequences for his sexual misconduct, I opened up the pages of the American news to find... well, pretty much the same thing.
No cover-ups here: I love Barack Obama. I like his policies on foreign affairs, his ability to captivate millions in his speeches, and, of course, hi...
Despite his insistence to the contrary, I believe New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris is certain to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Anyone who thought New York's role in the GOP presidential race ended with the termination of Trump's phony-baloney candidacy was obviously wrong.
Despite possible constitutional challenges, the Supreme Court is expected to uphold the practice given that opposing it would likely offend Justice Scalia's autopen, Clarence Thomas.
Should Mitt Romney, as is increasingly likely, win the GOP presidential nomination, it will be a severe defeat for the Tea Party faction of the party.
At this point, there are only a few holdouts left on the sidelines, as most of the bigwigs (and some decidedly "smallwigs") have made their intentions known.
The tepid support from the right to the current GOP pack should convince Joe Scarborough that the party faithful is waiting for a skilled politician with personality and name-recognition to enter the race.
It's a hard time to be a teacher. But I also think there's never been a better time to become a teacher.
Because I'm trying to include simply everybody, this will necessarily have to be a very wide (and not very deep) look at all the possible candidates.
Education is not just something that takes place behind schoolhouse doors. The education of the public as a whole is the responsibility of an aggressive, truth seeking media.
It's just plain wrong to give more tax breaks to the people who pay the least, while students and everyone else trying to live the American dream see their schools and services cut dramatically.
Bill Clinton's oft-quoted remark that, when choosing their candidate, "Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line" was a clever way to describe the nominating process for most of the last few decades. But it may be changing in 2012.
43 years ago, King gave his life fighting for the rights of 1,300 striking sanitation workers. It's a tragedy that 43 years later, our workers are still fighting for basic rights.
I have held off blogging about Cerf, but I am now impelled to clarify the deep flaws in his record as a DOE administrator.
An editorial in The New York Times, titled "Fairness in Firing Teachers," has me wondering whether the Times editors understand much about how teachers are evaluated.
Perhaps mainstream media reporters are feeling threatened in their own jobs, but that is no reason to turn on the few people who still have some modicum of economic security in this country.
The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's 'The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell' Monday night to discuss the continuing standoff in Wi...