Real Clear Politics

In this day of divided everything in American Culture news content and editorial content is the same. Still with the right and red watching Fox and the left and blue watching MSNBC and frankly both sides snickering at the appalling disintegration of CNN as an actual news organization the website Real Clear Politics is invaluable.

Why? For one simple reason. As a website they act as a clearing house. For example as I write this I am opening the website on my phone and this is what I have the opportunity to read.

Articles from Fox News, Huffington Post, Salon, Robert Samuelson from the Washington Post, Conservative Michelle Malkin, The Daily Beast and Alan Dershowitz. That is the afternoon edition. This morning one could read, and still read Karl Rove, George Will,articles from The Nation, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker and the New York Times.

Similarly each morning a selection of editorials from publications around the country are published both from the left leaning and the right leaning. Today sources included Investor's Business Daily, The New York Times, The San Fransisco Chronicle, and the Washington Examiner.

This is an incredible resource. With so much of us getting our news and information from the slant that appeals to us this site at least provides a resource to hear different opinions. Because we are a divided country there still are not a great deal of moderates even on this site, still more than you will find anywhere else.

The most important thing to being an intelligent and active member of your society is to be informed. Taking ten minutes a day to reading a couple of differing viewpoints on this site will make us all smarter, more understanding of those with different opinions, and better citizens.

You can read it on your phone. Stop helping the Angry Birds for just a few moments each day. Learn something. Be informed. This site is wonderful.