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Dan Kennedy
Dan Kennedy | April 23, 2012

I have a simple question for the media:

The hand-wringing and protestations about states forcing or attempting to force people to show photo ID before voting continues. It is loudest and most persistent from Al Sharpton on MSNBC, but it is…

Dan Kennedy | April 4, 2012

The ignorance of the general public was on display during the April 1 “Meet the Press.”  During that broadcast, a very recent AARP conference call was mentioned, in which the #1 question voiced by seniors about Obamacare was whether or not…

Dan Kennedy | March 30, 2012

Here is a simple story any news media type could manage or a candidate like Governor Romney should be able to tell.

I just came back from travels in Florida. I was in Key West, a place literally made possible entirely by private investment…

Dan Kennedy | February 28, 2012

There is a question David Gregory didn’t ask California Gov. Jerry “Déjà vu” Brown on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this past Sunday. Gov. Brown said that the solution to our porous southern border is not to seal it but to “invest” in Mexico!  To “…

Dan Kennedy | January 26, 2012

The lead financial story January 20th's USA Today was headlined "Are corporate defaults set to rise?"

 

My answer, before reading, was: of course. As are government defaults - directly, at municipal and possibly state levels, by…

Dan Kennedy | January 10, 2012

If it must be Gov. Romney, let him defend himself and his career forcefully. We are already seeing how Romney is being demonized because he is rich and successful and owns multiple homes and eliminated some jobs in the course of saving, fixing…