It's a topsy-turvy world. Obama and Netanyahu are meeting. The presidents of China and Taiwan met. And not long ago representatives of North and South Korea came together. Maybe there's some hope.

The joke's on his critics. While furiously fighting off media accusations that he lied about his childhood and a "scholarship" offer for West Point, Ben Carson pulled in $3.5 million in campaign donations.

Is it any wonder GOP candidates for president and Republicans in general regularly take a beating from the news media? Research by two Indiana University journalism professors shows that 28 percent of journalists call themselves Democrats, while just 7 percent identify themselves as Republicans.