It seems that incumbents are in trouble across the political landscape, except in California.

Just when the mainstream media thought that Barack Obama was pulling ahead in the polls, with positive job ratings, and just after the media have been savaging Republicans for two words Rush Limbaugh uttered on his radio program, Obama's numbers seem to be tanking.

As in Chicago, President Obama seems to live in a cocoon in which Republicans are largely absent, offscreen actors that no one pays any attention to.

What is there to say about Barack Obama's speech to Congress Thursday night and the so-called American Jobs Act he said Congress must pass? Several thoughts occur, all starting with P.

Taylorism begat the adversarial labor relations that now bedevil the Detroit automakers. Today, hostile labor politics are counterproductive for both firms and unionized employees.

After the tea party ousted Senator Robert Bennett, it seems obvious that its members are serious about what they say and do not use the same scorecard as Beltway denizens.

As Obama's record emerges his motivating principle seems rooted in an analysis that America has too often been on the side of the bad guys.

While Reich has been ridiculed by the press for his Walter Mitty tendencies, the brilliantly focused mental CAT scan which Reich's behavior illuminates has yet gone unexamined.