After a Superbowl that symbolically saw the city of New Orleans make a statement of defiance and resilience against social and economic injustice, CBS...
Suppose you had a friend you had known for many years, one who was very opinionated, who always seemed absolutely certain about everything, and yet who was always turning out to be wrong. He got you to buy stock in Enron and swore it would just keep on rising. He bet on the Yankees to sweep the Red Sox in ’04. He said mobile phones were just a fad, and before long people would give them up and go back to sending telegrams.
Would you trust this person’s powers of analysis? Would you continue putting any faith in his predictions?
“Conservatives,” or those who call themselves this nowadays, have an equally good and much longer record of faulty analysis and wrong prediction. In order to exist as a viable movement, they depend on everyone forgetting that they’re basically always wrong.
"Ms. Palin represents a new breed of unelected public figures operating in an environment in which politics, news media and celebrity are fused as...
Administrative law judge finds Bank of America discriminated against African-American job applicants
A protracted case that started with a U.S. Department of Labor Office of...
Choice under new attack from Operation Rescue, led by Troy Newman, the president of the organization.
Operation Rescue has launched a new anti-choice campaign by...
I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend. Here are a few stories from our hard-working agencies to make the weekend even better.
States seek...
As everyone probably knows by now, the great Tea Party Convention is in full swing this weekend in Nashville.
A whopping 600 teabaggers are gathered...
Tonight, Bill Moyers had a marvelous episode which I can't recommend enough.
The first segment was about the SCOTUS decision and the impact on our...
There is no particular news on the status of the health care reform bill. Or is there?
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Obama calls for talks with GOP on health...
This morning I happened upon an article dated January 21st, 2010 from the East Valley Tribune about a meeting of religious leaders regarding immigration.
The...