December 20, 2010

Sarah Palin: Fishing for American Exceptionalism

Watching "Sarah Palin's Alaska" is like stepping back in time -- not to a time when Americans lived off the land and the sea, but to a time when our desire to be #1 was celebrated and not scorned.A recent episode of "SP's Alaska" ...

November 13, 2010

Why Palestinians?

President Obama slammed Israel on Tuesday for announcing plans to build one thousand Jewish homes in East Jerusalem. This sparked a quick reminder from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that "Jerusalem is not a settlement. It is the...

October 24, 2010

The New York Yankees: America's Team?

When the underdog Texas Rangers beat the "Evil Empire" New York Yankees on Friday and dispatched them back to their smoldering Death Star, millions of people across America, and around the world, cheered.Why is that?There was a time, not to...

February 6, 2008

America's Enduring Love for Underdogs

Front-runners have had a rough time, lately.  The unbeaten Tom Brady.  The shoo-in Rudolph Giuliani.  The inevitable Hillary Clinton.  It seems the most dangerous place to be, nowadays, is at the front of the pack.On the flipside,...

December 14, 2007

Underdogma

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."     - Matthew 5:5  "So they routed them by Allah's leave, and David killed Goliath"     - The Qur-an, 2:251  "A box-cutter can ...