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The Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow corporations and unions to directly support political candidates through advertising has unleashed a frenzy of speculation about the mass infusion of cash into political races beginning with the midterm elections of 2010. I think the reality may be a little less frenzied than …

As the old saying goes, some of my best friends are Catholic and Jewish. Still, I find it weird that with the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a country founded by Protestants whose population is today sixty percent Protestant, may very well be ruled by a Supreme …

David Letterman, like the great Albert King blues song, seems to have been “born under a bad sign.” Between the aggressive stalkers and the house-painter kidnappers and the phony wives, the TV funny man’s off-camera life seems dominated by damage control. That’s why it wasn’t really that surprising that Thursday …