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A career writer and media maven, Jim Stinson is the author of four mystery novels and a college textbook, Video: Digital Communication and Production. His newest novel, Tassy Morgan's Bluff, will be out from Penguin Books in June 2011. He lives with his wife in Portland, OR.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, October 30, 2009 Hey, CNN: It's News, Stupid!
CNN is losing to Fox and MSNBC because it's forgotten how to be a news channel.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 18, 2009 Health Care: How Can We Follow the Money?
We can't evaluate health care reform schemes without really knowing the details of well-hidden health care costs. So let's dig up and publish them, pronto.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 11, 2009 Time to Humble Congressional Warlords
Who needs Republicans when powerful Democrats are working to cripple the President's budget proposal?
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, January 5, 2009 Why the roof don't git fixed
Falling gas prices are driving a nation suffering short-term memory loss away from fuel-efficient cars -- again. This time, we can't let it happen.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 13, 2008 What's with All the Happiness?
What an African American president does for the wonder bread majority.
SHARE Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Come Down off Olympos
When the building's on fire, you can't refuse to help put it out because you think the sprinkler system is too inadequate to be improved.
(12 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 27, 2008 How McCain cheapens his admirable history
McCain's cynical use of his history as a prisoner cheapens both his campaign and his admirable record.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Beware of Yahoo "News" stories
Among Yahoo News' 5 "most popular news stories" is a vicious opinion piece. Did Yahoo mis-categorize it on purpose? Oh, perish the thought!
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, May 19, 2008 The Environmental Threat in the Living Room
In arguing about environmental priorities, we're afraid to even mention the highest one of all: population control.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 15, 2008 The Race Card and the Truth
Race is a non-issue that will not go away. To counter it,progressives must go on the offensive.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 11, 2008 Clinton or Obama? Feminist Angst and Single-Issue Politics
The election of a female president would be the greatest milestone in the long march of women's rights since achieving the vote. But for all its importance, feminism is still a single issue, and rising above single issues is what this campaign is about.
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 10, 2008 Michigan and Florida: What Happened; Who's Responsible?
Validating the Michigan and Florida Democratic primaries is not fixing a mistake, it's evading consequences that were fully known before the primaries took place.
SHARE Monday, March 31, 2008 Citizens need crap detectors
A brief plea that future citizens/voters be taught media literacy as seriously as they are taught history and government.
SHARE Thursday, February 7, 2008 Election Reform That Might Even Pass
Electing House members for four years instead of two would be so good for incumbents that the idea might even fly.