Hal Cohen 's items

I Haven't Won the Lottery (Hal Cohen)

Because everyone needs a diversion

Of, By, and For The People (Hal Cohen)

Unless an idea is bite sized, nobody can wrap their head around it

On Racism -- Revised (Hal Cohen)

Feb. 22, 2009 (World News Trust) -- When I first wrote this piece, on New Year’s Eve, I was not thinking about the historic presidential inauguration three weeks away. I was only thinking about the u ...

Rush Limbaugh Hates America -- And So can You (Hal Cohen)

At this point, Rush, you’ve got a choice, America has spoken out against what you believe so you can love it or leave it.

5th Avenue: A Primer on Bipartisanship

America is not clamoring for bipartisanship. She is tired of the petty fighting that passes for political debate. America is a centrist nation. The current crop of Republicans, with few exceptions, c ...

Selecting a Supreme Court Justice (Hal Cohen)

For the general public, the Supreme Court debate begins and ends with abortion.

Ending Entitlements (Hal Cohen)

I want to retire the term “entitlements.” It sends the wrong message.

Serial Patriotism (Hal Cohen)

Jan. 12, 2009 (World News Trust) -- In the 1970s, Martin Mull starred in a movie called “Serial.” It satirized the period’s “cultural” revolution against American institutions that the political Righ ...

Trump Card (Hal Cohen)

Jan. 11, 2009 (World News Trust) -- One of my closest friends and I argue politics a lot. He would regularly defend the position put forth by the Republican Party, and he would eventually acknowledge ...

On Racism (Hal Cohen)

Jan. 3, 2009 (World News Trust) -- The media has recently spent a lot of time talking about the fact that a candidate to head the Republican National Committee distributed CD’s to colleagues for Chri ...

Prop 8 And The Same-Sex Debate (Hal Cohen)

Dec. 23, 2008 (World News Trust) --- Let me begin with some erroneous suppositions: