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New Jersey's Race for Governor-Corzine, Christie, and Daggett are each awful

By Randy LoBasso at 12:11 am on Sunday November 1, 2009

In 1994, the NBA’s New Jersey Nets considered renaming themselves the Swamp Dragons. Ownership eventually declined and the name-change was unofficially handed off to politicians running for statewide office. Next week, our neighbors across the Delaware will be voting for governor. Their choices: A corrupt jogger, a corrupt fat dude, and someone else who’s neither – but not much else.

Did Al Sharpton and the NFL “Rush” Limbaugh Away from his Dream?

By Bill Neri-Amadeo at 5:42 am on Monday October 26, 2009

Rush Limbaugh has been rebuked by the NFL and the partnership group that courted him led by St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts because he is an alleged racist and the leader of the firestorm about the Conservative talk show host was none other than the Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton was quoted on www.ESPN.com as saying, "It's remarkable in that he was denied by other powerful whites.

The Philadelphia Phillies embody the True Spirit of Red October

By Gregory Gethard at 11:08 pm on Thursday October 22, 2009

A few months ago, I was out somewhere and one of my more outspoken leftist anti-WTO activist friends started screaming about how sports served nothing more to distract us from the “real” issues that affect our world. Not wanting an argument, and being someone who spends a large chunk of his income on all things related to baseball, I bit my tongue. But it did get me to think about sports, politics and the world at large.

Tom Ridge’s Unfortunate Revelation

By Randy LoBasso at 12:12 am on Tuesday August 25, 2009

In a January 2008 op/ed for the Philadelphia Daily News, I wrote, regarding the Bush Administration’s seeming bloodlust for war with Iran: “Bush also hasn’t been shy about using the Iraq War to attempt to form what Karl Rove once called “the permanent Republican majority.” Back in 2004, terror alerts were escalated when Democratic candidate John Kerry was up in the polls, and key votes on war legislation was put before Congress in time for midterm elections.”

A Week of the Health Care Holocaust

By Randy LoBasso at 2:25 pm on Friday August 14, 2009

This issue is so ridiculous, we should have seen it coming. Now out of power, Republicans and their mouthpieces in the news entertainment industry – void of any real leadership – have taken steps back like never before. Instead of a unified message of an opposition party, the right has relied on anonymously-written smear emails, unsubstantiated internet rumors, and playing to our biggest fears in order to stop the Democratic agenda. And when it comes to health care reform, they’ve predictably (and desperately) played into humanity’s biggest fear: death.

A Political Obituary For Sarah Palin

By Randy LoBasso at 11:21 pm on Tuesday August 4, 2009

There’s something about Sarah Palin. The Wasilla ice queen taught us that incoherency, whining, passing the blame, and hate spewing can bring you within 192 electoral votes of federal rule. Palin stepped down as governor the other week, but her place in American culture remains.

President Obama, Policeman, Sticking His Nose…

By Gregory Gethard at 1:15 am on Wednesday July 29, 2009

What would your reaction be if, last year, there was a story in which President Bush talked at length about a friend of his, and a campaign donor, who was arrested? And, in the case of this story, he ripped into the local police department involved in the incident? You’d probably be outraged, and correctly so. But Bush never did such a thing. President Obama did.