Mike McCready

At first, I was outraged that the mainstream media wasn’t calling the Republicans on their outright lies. Then you finally did when the lies become so blatant they could not be ignored. Now I’m outraged that you won’t stop talking about how smart it was of the Republicans to use lies to distract our attention. What […]

George Carlin liked to say, “When you’re born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front-row seat.” He had an important impact on 20th century America. His “Seven Dirty Words” routine was central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation, in which […]

See this entry on The Huffington Post. Of this whole Scott McClellan affair there is one fact that particularly stands out to me. In order to raise the argument that Scott McClellan may be disgruntled the mainstream television media is pointing out that he was “forced out” of the White House back in April 2006. […]

Now before I get into this I want to say that party unity is very important. I will vote for and vigorously support this fall whoever gets the Democratic nomination. It will be up to the loser to do his or her best to unite the party and I will be extremely upset […]

Have you seen the new ad the DNC is going to run against McCain today? Apparently the Democrats are calling McCain out and they may be doing it today in order to take advantage of network and cable news coverage of the Pennsylvania Primary. It doesn’t sound like the DNC has the coin to […]

In Spain the government collects value added tax (VAT) on exchanges between retailers and consumers. It’s similar to the sales tax in that it’s an indirect tax that is collected from someone other than the person who actually bears the cost of the tax (namely the seller rather than the consumer). This is gripping […]

José Luís Rodriguez Zapatero, Spain’s recently re-elected Prime Minister has announced that his cabinet will, for the first time in history, be made up of more women than men. Of the 17 cabinet members nine are women. Zapatero is a self-proclaimed feminist and his previous cabinet sported an equal number of both men and women. Most […]

To read this post on The Huffington Post click here. I’ve been having a number of conversations with Democrat friends who are avidly supporting Obama’s race for the nomination. I respect that and have said before that while I support Hillary Clinton I have nothing but praise for Senator Obama and will support him if […]

To read this post on The Huffington Post click here. Last night, Eve and I were fortunate to attend the Elton John concert / Hillary Clinton fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan (never a lack of things to do here). We’ve been supporting Hillary Clinton’s tumultuous race for the nomination and in spite of […]

The Washington Post has a story today that was all the buzz within the music industry yesterday and one that has been the topic of heated debate and controversy on various industry email groups I belong to. It’s about Warner Music Group hiring Jim Griffin, (a well known industry analyst and leading thinker) to […]