Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

According to the RealClearPolitics website, Newt Gingrich recently told a Tea Party meeting in Delaware, "I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through. In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we're more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That's just a fact."

Fox News swung back hard and released a statement attacking Gingrich saying, "This is nothing other than Newt auditioning for a windfall of a gig at CNN -- that's the kind of man he is. Not to mention that he's still bitter about the fact that we terminated his contributor contract."

When Sarah Palin, during the post Iowa media spin feast, warned GOP leaders to not "marginalize" the Ron Paul supporters, she was looking ahead to the greatest challenge faced by whoever captures the nomination.

The Republican leaders in D.C. loathe Ron Paul, and they loathe the thousands of mostly young activists he is bringing into the GOP. Like similar waves of activists in the past the insiders' goal is to see their tide of enthusiasm break and dissipate like foam on a beach.

Prepare for violence. We remember this crowd.

The year was 1999 and the anarchists descended on Seattle to stop a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). We lived there at the time.

Floyd was working as a host at Hot Talk 570 KVI, located in downtown near the "peaceful protests" of the meeting of WTO ministers. Seattle was excited because it was an opportunity to show the new high tech Seattle of the 1990's that replaced the industrial Seattle of the 1970's. The city was on the world's stage.

Early pictures of the protests reminded us of what you see currently camped in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. And as in the fall of 1999, the media is there to catalogue the strange beliefs of those involved.

Obama says he will get focused on the jobs problem just as soon as he returns from his August vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Like the more famous Hamptons, the Vineyard is a playground of the rich and famous out to find some summer enjoyment on the Atlantic shore. Just before leaving, Obama articulated his number one goal is to grow the economy.

But while Obama is playing jetsetter, back in Washington a crucial regulatory agency, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been captured by a group of extremists who actually believe the USA would be better off with a smaller economy.

Gold isn't money? How could America get to this point we asked in astonishment upon hearing the Chairman of the Federal Reserve proclaim, "Gold isn't Money."

No wonder our leaders in Washington misspend our money. They don't even understand what it is.

The worst economic conditions in recent memory were during the Jimmy Carter era of stagflation. Stagflation was a term coined in the 1970s to describe high unemployment with high inflation. Stagflation is back. Translation: America's middle class is getting poorer; a record number of middle class workers are out of work. If you are lucky enough to have a job, your wages aren't going up, but you are facing higher prices for everything.

"Recent data suggests that the current economic recovery is both sluggish and slowing with unemployment stubbornly high," this from a page one story in Investor's Business Daily.

The Obama/ Bernanke partnership has been a bust.

"The passage of the Uniform Monday Federal Holiday Law in 1968 triggered an avalanche that would bury "the father of our country," along with his guiding virtues and reminders of how and why the U.S. was born.

Washington inspired his contemporaries and countless American s since, motivating others to emulate him. Washington set the gold standard for presidents and private character. "His example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting," wrote John Marshall in Washington's official eulogy. "The purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues."