With almost daily revelations about who is financing the Republican Party’s attempted takeover of Congress, readers can be forgiven for occasional confusion.

This column will now try to sort out GOP ownership for the public.

At least in the 1950s, artists, journalists and writers deemed to be un-American had to refuse to talk to the Congressional version of the inquisition before being fired. Now, NPR, supposedly a beacon of enlightened thought, has fired news analyst Juan Williams for expressing a fear. He said on another network, Fox News, that if he saw Muslims on his jet flight, he would be nervous. Williams was fired for using the personal pronoun -- "I," making his statement an opinion that went too far for NPR.

The squeaky-clean, golly-gee-whiz image of the hit television show "Glee" is now tarnished. That's according to the ever-moralizing, "Family Guy" hating Parents Television Council. The nonprofit that includes the likes of conservative entertainer Pat Boone on its board of directors has denounced the makers of "Glee" after actors on the show appeared in a "hyper-sexualized" photo shoot that will appear in the November issue of GQ magazine.

Barack Obama is once again slated to appear on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show," providing the president with the opportunity to reach out to would-be Democratic voters before the expected melee of his party during the November election. Unless Obama and Democrats get voters off their butts in the next couple of weeks, it appears the U.S. Congress will turn a distinct shade of Republican red. Despite that voter registrations favor Democrats, it seems those who are most likely to vote lean conservative. A new Wall Street Journal poll highlights a 7-point gap between voters who plan to vote Republican versus those who want to vote Democrat. The liberal apathy so far remains unexplained except in general terms -- the ongoing economic slump, high unemployment, and the ongoing foreclosure crisis are, however, oft-cited.