The Fraud That Is Bill Maher
Would the real Bill Maher please stand up? Who is he? I want to know. Is he a comedian or a political pundit? Is he a Progressive (as he...
Credit Where Credit Is Due: Some People Need Reminding
Reid insisted in 2010 that delaying the debt ceiling vote would ensure that the Republicans would own part of the responsibility. And so we find ourselves on the brink of disaster.
The President Who Isn’t
People are living longer. Just look at the number of ex-Presidents we have living yet. There are four, and I can’t remember when so many ex-leaders of the country...
Paying the Price of Civil Disobedience
When I was a junior in high school, in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term, I took a course in civics. Back then, this was required of all...
Excommunication By State
I am a Virginian born and bred. My mother's people were Virginians before Virginia was Virginia. They met the first settlers when they arrived to found Jamestown in 1607....
When the Left Borrows from the Right
I'm not a great fan of Cynthia Boaz, but I'll give her fair due. She's written a cracking piece which you can see on TruthOut.org's website, entiled "14 Propaganda...
Never Mind The Dangerous Insipidity of Dan Choi
In the 21st Century, intellect has debased itself to such a point that every action needs simplification to the nth degree, with people being willfully and patently unable to see more than one way of achieving an end.
The Radical Chic Pay Lip Service to the Poor
In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all stripes not to forget the...
Just a Word About Marriage
We are the United States of Shallow Americans. We obsess over the nuance in a phrase or a word and are distracted by the most inane things, thus allowing...
The Professional Left and The Big Sam President
So I understand Keith Olbermann, the multimillionaire media egotist and ex-sportscaster who deems himself eminently qualified to comment on political affairs, whose resurrected show Countdown is an echo...