Monday, May 7, 2012
Don't know much about history
By Marty Kaplan
The reason that our financial system isn’t going to crash and burn again, the reason that taxpayers won’t have to fork over another trillion. . .
Monday, April 23, 2012
Opinion: Exorcising Orrin Hatch
By Marty Kaplan
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Because Senator Orrin Hatch couldn't eke out 60 percent of the votes at the Utah Republican Party's convention. . .
Monday, April 9, 2012
You don’t mean a thing if you ain’t got that swing
By Marty Kaplan
If you’re reading this, your vote for president won’t count. Don’t get me wrong. Everyone should vote; I think it should be compulsory, as it. . .
Monday, March 26, 2012
'Ask Her When She's Sober'
By Marty Kaplan
Until Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach and her unborn child were murdered by Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean and buried in his backyard, her congressman,. . .
Monday, March 12, 2012
Is luck dead?
By Marty Kaplan
The trouble with kids these days is that they think luck counts more than they should. That’s the diagnosis of America’s young people offered by. . .
Monday, February 27, 2012
Harvard, Santorum and the one-state solution
By Marty Kaplan
This coming weekend, Harvard’s Kennedy School will host a One State Conference” where some 20 speakers will be talking about “Israel/Palestine. . .
Monday, February 13, 2012
Political March Madness
By Marty Kaplan
Will Hillary be Obama’s running mate, with Biden going to State if they win? Will Romney wrap things up on Super Tuesday, or will there be a. . .
Monday, January 30, 2012
Don't be naked
By Marty Kaplan
Entertainment executives are fond of saying that no matter what happens with technology, what will always matter most is good storytelling. What they. . .
Monday, January 16, 2012
Opinion: Tim Tebow Is Jewish
By Marty Kaplan
“Should The Times Be a Truth Vigilante?” That was the headline last week on a blog posted by New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane.. . .
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Opinion: Campaign colonics
By Marty Kaplan
What did I miss? For seven days I didn’t have salt, meat or CNN. My mornings began without “Morning Joe” or “Morning Edition”; I saw. . .
Monday, December 12, 2011
Marty Kaplan: Newt winked at me
By Marty Kaplan
Did you see how Newt Gingrich kept winking during the Dec. 10 Republican debate? I’ll bet you $10,000 I’m the one he was winking at.. . .
Monday, November 28, 2011
Opinion: Warning -- Political ads make you stupid
By Marty Kaplan
This is the disclaimer that Britain’s Public Interest Research Centre recently proposed for inclusion on billboards:. . .
Monday, November 14, 2011
Opinion: Keeping up with the Kandidates
By Marty Kaplan
"Are you not entertained?" That was Jon Stewart’s response to Rick Perry’s brain freeze. He said it twice, maniacally. “Are you not. . .
Monday, October 31, 2011
Opinion: How Occupy will end
No one knows what difference Occupy Wall Street will turn out to make.. . .
Monday, October 17, 2011
Opinion: Obama-Romney 2012
By Marty Kaplan
Forget the fantasy of Hillary Clinton taking Joe Biden’s place on the 2012 ballot. Not only because it is not going to happen. The theory that. . .
Monday, October 3, 2011
Opinion: Occupy K Street
By Marty Kaplan
It’s premature to give the Nobel Peace Prize to those Occupy Wall Street kids. But it also may be too soon to blow them off as clueless hipsters. . .
Monday, September 19, 2011
Opinion: Letting animals vote
By Marty Kaplan
You look terrific. Have you lost weight? Are you working out? You’ve got this glow about you. I bet you’re in love. Wait -- you were. . .
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Opinion: How did this happen to America?
By Marty Kaplan
It was while I was explaining to an Australian student that Rupert Murdoch was the reason America had gone batty that I realized how inadequate my. . .
Monday, July 25, 2011
What story is the Murdoch story?
By Marty Kaplan
Following several days of coaching by lawyers and PR experts, it must have been really rattling for Rupert and James Murdoch when show time arrived. . .
Monday, July 11, 2011
The “Obama’s brilliant strategy” theory
By Marty Kaplan
If you voted for Obama, here’s what you’re not supposed to be thinking:. . .
Monday, June 27, 2011
Marty Kaplan: Pessimism is the last taboo
By Marty Kaplan
If you pay attention to the news, the prospects for the future look grim.. . .
Friday, May 27, 2011
If Bachmann and Palin Weren’t Pretty
By Marty Kaplan
I wonder how much airtime Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) would get if she didn’t look the way she does. I wonder how much of Sara Palin’s political. . .
Friday, May 13, 2011
Don’t count on it
By Marty Kaplan
Please don’t run a countdown clock on the debt ceiling.. . .
Monday, May 2, 2011
Our friend Pakistan and other mental pretzels
By Marty Kaplan
On the same day that Americans are test-driving the idea that Osama bin Laden lived on the outskirts of Pakistan’s West Point, undetected, for six. . .
