Widely published, poet, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter; member of PEN American Center, and PEN USA. Jayne Lyn Stahl is a Huffington Post blogger.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 1960 Revisited? (2 comments)
If this were a poker game, and not an election, you know who would have a Full House.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Triage 101
Suggesting that Sarah Palin bone up on economic theory would be like telling Napoleon to take a water pill.
Sunday, October 26, 2008 "Top Cover"
We don't need revolution, in this country, so much as resolution.
Friday, October 24, 2008 Death Threats Against Italian Author
It's time for journalists, bloggers, writers, and all those who value the written word to speak out against death threats for speaking truth to power.
Saturday, October 11, 2008 Panel Findings
Halloween is coming. Somebody had better tell Sarah Palin she's not Joan of Arc soon!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Domestic Terrorism or Dissent? (4 comments)
Maryland police are not the only
ones engaged in the practice of
hunting down "domestic terrorists" and, if McCain/Palin get their way, every police department will soon follow suit.
Monday, October 6, 2008 Martial Law? (4 comments)
"You don't need a Letterman to
know which way the wind blows!"
Friday, October 3, 2008 Channeling Ronald Reagan (1 comments)
When "likability" is on the table, political discourse has hit a new low.
Friday, October 3, 2008 An Open Letter to Congress
Apparently, greed doesn't come with an expiration date.
Thursday, October 2, 2008 At Great Cost
This kind of corruption would inspire a Shakespearean tragedy.
Monday, September 29, 2008 Privatize the FDIC?
There were plenty of people who got filthy rich during the Depression, too.
Sunday, September 28, 2008 Ad Astra Mr. Newman
"He was an awesome guy, and an awesome guy right up until the end. His spirit will be with us forever," Lissy Newman, Paul Newman's daughter.
Friday, September 26, 2008 The Republican Guard? (2 comments)
Don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise: Islamofascism isn't the only kind of fascism we need to worry about now.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 From an American Airman in Iraq (4 comments)
More often than not, the folks who support John McCain are the ones who can least afford to do so.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 Crazy? (1 comments)
If Sarah's name was Sal Palin,she might be making sure the trains run on time in Sicily like another whacko of the fascist family.
Monday, September 15, 2008 Not even a short-term solution (1 comments)
Wall Street, today, is the logical extension of Reaganomics.
Friday, September 12, 2008 Running by the Numbers
Some people give better mouth than others. Sarah Palin has transformed giving mouth into an art form
Monday, September 8, 2008 Evangelical Lite (3 comments)
Stand up, or step down; we need leadership not lead feet.
Thursday, August 21, 2008 A Lost and Found for Credibility (2 comments)
Funny, isn't it, for a Party so concerned with "creed" how little interest there is in credibility.
Saturday, August 2, 2008 O'Reilly's Revenge (4 comments)
Forget Montezuma when travelling this summer, if you're not careful, you may catch a case of O'Reilly's Revenge.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 The Terror Gang (2 comments)
Obama is right when he says that "no one welcomes war," but some welcome it more than others.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Fact-Finding Missions (1 comments)
If, as President Bush said at a private function today, Wall Street got drunk, Baghdad got stoned. How many more commanders-in-chief can we afford who have the Bush mindset.
Monday, July 21, 2008 De-regulation and Choice (1 comments)
Any arranged marriage between health, politics, and religion is one that can only lead to divorce.
Sunday, July 20, 2008 "Whole and Separate" (2 comments)
What isn't in the "script" for this administration?
Thursday, July 17, 2008 The Politics of Codependency (1 comments)
We may not have learned much, over the past several years, but we've learned one thing. We now know how to say "national security" in Chinese--John McCain!
Monday, July 14, 2008 Visions and Plans
Those who have a plan see a fence, and try to find a way to climb over it. Those with vision see over the fence to the other side.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 Positional Vertigo
We're too close to one of the most important presidential elections in our lifetimes to allow positional vertigo to take hold of the candidate with the greatest probability of making the whole world happy with his victory.
Sunday, July 6, 2008 Hands Off Obama (24 comments)
This election isn't just about ending the war in Iraq. It's about moving from a wartime to a peacetime economy. He may not be perfect, but Barack Obama is a whole lot better than John McCain who is Viagra for the military industrial complex.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 The Rapture Party (1 comments)
Who needs a pajama party when you can have a Rapture party?
Saturday, June 28, 2008 Just A Start? (2 comments)
San Francisco may lead the way yet again in being at the forefront of the struggle against handguns.
Thursday, June 26, 2008 Script Doctors (1 comments)
Contempt of Congress? Contempt of history, too!
Sunday, May 18, 2008 On the Fast Track to the Apocalypse... (7 comments)
Anti-Semitism must include bigotry against both Jews and Muslims as both are of the Semitic race.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 The Right Thing (7 comments)
Standing on principle isn't the same as taking a principled stand.
Thursday, May 8, 2008 Rocky Times Out (9 comments)
Knowing when to leave the ring is half the battle.
Saturday, April 19, 2008 The Best Argument Against McCain (2 comments)
While meat and potatoes issues, like the economy, are important to a Democratic win in November, it would be a mistake to underestimate the intelligence of the American voter, and ignore the looming crisis of a radical right wing Supreme Court.
Saturday, April 5, 2008 Phi Beta Interrogator
We know we're in trouble in a war in which suicide becomes an act of resistance.
Saturday, March 29, 2008 Indecency (10 comments)
If allowed to stand, a new Indiana law may pose a permanent threat to free speech not just in our lifetimes, but for generations to come.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 Where? (1 comments)
Wealth may be, but hunger isn't a relative concept.
Friday, March 21, 2008 Our Man in Baghdad -- John McCain (5 comments)
Warbucks McCain is vetted, and wedded to a war policy that can only guarantee decades more of financial hardship for all of us.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Large, Sunny Crucifix for Rent
A lapse of ethics has little to do with one's private life, but rather with one's sense of public responsibility.
Sunday, March 9, 2008 Playing Footsie (9 comments)
Presidential election 2008: less concern about victory; more fine tuning the vision.
Friday, March 7, 2008 A Delegate Balance (13 comments)
There are times it seems like the only Party Hillary Clinton cares about is the one in her living room.
Monday, March 3, 2008 Why were they fired... (4 comments)
While Rep. Conyers' stance is singular, and singularly laudible, it's time to stop dancing around the issue of Contempt of Congress, and start telling it like it is. The firing of the nine U.S. attorneys was about nothing less than trying to disenfranchise as many Democrats as possible to ensure a fragile Republican Party that they can still hold the reins in November, and through 2016.
Saturday, March 1, 2008 Connecting the Nots (2 comments)
This is not the promised land, I promise....
Sunday, February 24, 2008 Arizona's Workhorse (3 comments)
No, Senator John McCain, but his sidekick Rick Renzi. My, my, how fast corruption breeds on the hill.
Sunday, January 27, 2008 State of the Bully Address...
Any government that uses the liberties of the people as a prophylactic is one destined to fall.
Friday, January 25, 2008 Gitmo in Iraq?
This administration has made a career of occupation, and it's now looking to proprietize its legacy.
Sunday, January 13, 2008 John Edwards: Too Soon for Political Obituary (10 comments)
The Democrats need a fighter to win the presidency in '08, and there is only one: John Edwards.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Timed Release
The mainstream media has become an information delivery vehicle in much the same way that cigarettes are a nicotine delivery vehicle. The only difference is that the MSM works more like an antihistamine with timed release.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008 New Year's Eve Arrests at Huckabee Headquarters (10 comments)
Oscar Wilde once said "Only the superficial don't judge by appearances" and, judging by appearances, Mike Huckabee poses a far greater threat to democracy as we know it than bin Laden ever could.
Saturday, December 29, 2007 Moral Downsizing (3 comments)
Moral ambiguity can only lead to positional vertigo.
Thursday, December 27, 2007 How to End "State of Emergency" 101
Accountability may yet prove to be as much a problem in Islamabad as it is in Washington, D.C.
Friday, December 21, 2007 Forced Detox for Fox
Fox News best reflects Murdoch's good week...
Monday, December 10, 2007 Don't Start Without Me
A coalition of the killing must now become a coalition of the willing.
Saturday, December 1, 2007 Just Ask
Child support wasn't meant to be state support.
Saturday, November 3, 2007 No Wiggle Room (2 comments)
Artful dodgers, like Michael Mukasey, need not apply. Torture is not contextual; it is absolute.
Saturday, October 20, 2007 The Protect Who Act? (6 comments)
Just say "no" to abuse of power.
Thursday, October 18, 2007 Press On
Information is the first casualty of war.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007 Pass the Federal Shield Law (5 comments)
When journalists become an endangered species, truth is on the line. A society bolstered by lies, and misdeeds, is one destined to fall.
Monday, October 1, 2007 Duplomacy (3 comments)
Every president will be remembered for something. George W. Bush's legacy will be the introduction of a new concept---duplomacy.
Thursday, September 20, 2007 Move Over O.J. (2 comments)
O.J. blinked in court today when the charges against him were read. Somebody decided that should be front page news. America inhaled just long enough to eclipse the report yesterday that Congress is looking into allegations that a top official in the State Department, Inspector General Howard J. Krongard, used his "partisan political ties" to not only block investigations, but to completely ignore so-called "security lapses
Saturday, September 8, 2007 In Pursuit of Power (4 comments)
If phonecalls can be traced with alarming frequency, why can't the rocket scientists at Homeland Security figure out a way to trace Osama bin Laden's cell number? Could it be because they don't want to!
Friday, August 24, 2007 Who's Packing in Pakistan (3 comments)
The war on terror is more about selective perception than selective service.
Friday, August 10, 2007 Banning Harry Potter (2 comments)
Censorship, not terrorism, poses a far greater risk to life as we know it.
Sunday, August 5, 2007 Under Pressure (1 comments)
A host of abstractions to hide a circus of fear...
Monday, July 30, 2007 Parsing Purgatory
Covering one's ass at the expense of the Constitution must come to be seen as an impeachable offense.
Sunday, July 8, 2007 Standing to Sue (1 comments)
The Bush years are the embodiment of privilege whether it be executive privilege, or state secrets privilege. And, in the end, it all comes down to covering one's backyard.
Thursday, June 28, 2007 Beneath Contempt (3 comments)
Paris, Coulter, and other weapons of mass distraction...
Sunday, June 24, 2007 Rocky Days in L.A. (3 comments)
Those who champion the interests of the downtrodden in America today are at the greatest risk of incurring the wrath of the corporate giants.
Friday, June 22, 2007 Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall (1 comments)
The wall between government and governed, in the U.S., needs to come down. The truth must come out of its foxhole, and charges of high crimes and misdemeanors must see the light of day...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Paging John Ashcroft (4 comments)
There are only two people on earth who know the whole story, and one of them isn't talking. What about the other one?
Monday, May 28, 2007 Climate / Whether Changes (1 comments)
Whether it's Hillary and big business, or McCain and big war bucks, it must remembered that a president's first four years are often spent appealing to the special interests that got them there, so who are those special interests? What policy, or practices will a president most likely endorse to get re-elected, and at whose expense? How much are they willing to compromise to get to where they want to go?
Friday, May 25, 2007 Atheists in Foxholes (9 comments)
What is within our power...
Sunday, May 6, 2007 From V-chips to Vetoes (1 comments)
The right to life vs. the right to live, and other V-chip moments.
Thursday, April 26, 2007 Star Power
Just say "no" to Neanderthals!
Saturday, April 21, 2007 The Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz (2 comments)
The cult of inconsequentials claims another...
Friday, April 20, 2007 They Got The Wrong Guy (4 comments)
Justice walks when money talks...
Friday, April 13, 2007 Putting Imus to bed....
In the final analysis, the Imus story comes down to supply and demand.
Sunday, April 8, 2007 Famous Last Words (1 comments)
When they capture us, we're called "hostages;" when we capture them, we're called "heroes."
Sunday, March 25, 2007 How's This for a Marriage?
Not only does the commander-in-chief need a refresher course in Geography 101, but his veep does, too. The troops we should support, if any, are the ones in Afghanistan; better still, the ones on their way home.
Saturday, March 24, 2007 The Ultimate in Ultrasounds (5 comments)
Privacy, and the right to independent decision-making also come under the heading of civil rights.
