OPINION

Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie are outdated, irrelevant and--let's face it--nearly dead. Who are the new figures of a musical revolution?

In most European polls, and in an ever-increasing number of American surveys, Israel is viewed as evil and very “self-serving,” as opposed to being open-minded like the rest of the world’s nations.

Groundhog Day is upon us. Up in Punxsutawney, Penn., the famous prognosticating groundhog Phil may see his shadow this year. We could be in for six more weeks of winter. Never mind the fact that it's been so unseasonably warm that Al Gore started writing the script for his next Oscar-winning documentary called Ha! I Told You So. If Phil says winter will continue then, by golly, it will.

Liturgy is the sexless hive-geek counterpart to Lana Del Rey, 2011's most polarizing and polarized artist. Her just-dropped album Born to Die, has landed number 1, despite global critical condemnation. The Brooklyn black metallers (Liturgy) generated what seemed a comparable amount of criticism to the manufactured pseudo-pop darling (Del Rey) in 2011. Liturgy sold far fewer albums, proving that artistic merit and integrity do not always win out.

According to a poll, If the election were held today, Paul would get 46 percent of the vote compared to President Barack Obama’s 49 percent.

As part of an undeniable war on Christianity, New York City is set to evict 17,000 churchgoers who use schools as a place of worship. (As if eliminating any reference to Christmas was not bad enough.)

Apparently Ehud Barak, Israel's defense minister and former prime minister, is having some sleepless nights. Should Israel preemptively strike Iran?

By consolidating its privacy policies and altering its core product, Google has separated itself from the reason everyone loved it. Before, it was simply the world's greatest search engine. Now, it's just another search bar. The new privacy policy gives Google the ability to monitor activity across all of its services, and I suspect that Google product will continue to bleed into each other. Prepare for the end of Google as you know it.

Everyone likes the word entrepreneur. Its precise definition is elusive, but even if we as Americans don't really know what entrepreneurship means, we know that we like it, and we want more of it. After all, the word evokes all the popular clichés that are so prominent in our culture, especially around election time: the American Spirit, the struggle to overcome, innovate, inspire positive social change, and so on. Indeed, entrepreneurship has become a catch-all in these times...

Newt Gingrich would like to make Saul Alinsky the bogeyman of the 2012 campaign -- never mind that he misrepresents almost everything about Alinsky, and never mind that Alinsky's tactics have been adopted by the Tea Party and by Gingrich himself.

Recently, Ron Paul was asked a hypothetical question concerning Israel’s security. Would he, as president, provide Israel with military assistance if they were attacked with nuclear weapons from Iran?

Shareholders of InterDigital, owner of wireless patents, got a rude awakening when it canceled its company auction only days after Eastman Kodak filed for bankruptcy after failing to sell 1,100 patents. Is the patent gold rush over?

He has become dull, shrill, and predictable.

If his son gets into deeper trouble, Ray's future political ambitions might be thwarted.

It is time for Peyton Manning to embrace the notion that his time in Indianapolis is over and prepare to join younger brother Eli in the city that never sleeps.

President Barack Obama sure does have a knack for contradicting himself.

It Romney were an athlete, he would be somewhere in the middle of the pack.

Those paying capital gains taxes should pay their fair share, and they already are.

If you listened to the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening, you may have been confused. The rosy picture he painted of America as a thriving, secure, prosperous, and upwardly mobile nation doesn’t match reality, as you and I know it. In fact, Obama’s reckless deficit spending has taken this country to the edge of financial collapse, leaving us jobless, economically stagnant, lacking in innovation, and weak in our national defenses.

The setting was Puritan Boston in 1642. Hester Prynne emerged from prison rejected, condemned, and spurned. Her crime? Conceiving a child from an adulterous affair. Her punishment? Wearing a scarlet letter A on her chest and bearing the wrath of her town along with it.

There are currently nearly 100 journalists in prison in Turkey.

Newt Gingrich has risen like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes to become a top-tier contender for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for U.S. president. But is he too old to serve in the most demanding, elected, public office in the world?

While New York technology jobs increase in 2012, America's middle class will be shrinking.

Paterno's name is tarnished – perhaps irredeemably.

Many athletes and coaches have issued statements about Joe Paterno's death on Sunday, but it is accused child molester Jerry Sandusky's statement that is making the most noise.

After global protests on Wednesday which saw darkened Websites like Wikipedia and BoingBoing and a “virtual” strike by Google, on Friday SOPA, a creature of the U.S. House of Representatives, and PIPA, in the Senate, were essentially smothered.

Carter likely doesn’t have too much time left on this earth but he will leave a great legacy as the premier catcher in the National League of the post-Johnny Bench era.

This past week, New York University began the long approval process for its plan to add four new buildings to two superblocks just south of Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village.

As for Newt Gingrich's political career, that, too, has been riddled with scandal and wrongdoing.