141 Articles

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Can You Hear Us Now?
Maybe, if we're lucky, the election results this week will wake up the Obama administration a little. People are frustrated, and want some action.

Friday, October 30, 2009
Big Bad Government Is Coming To Get You
(4 comments) Watch out for the government! It's coming to take away all your freedoms and enslave you. Like Europeans!

Friday, October 23, 2009
Paranoia For Breakfast
(3 comments) The regressive right in America has now truly flipped out completely. When they can't find something real to object to, they simply make it up out of whole cloth.

Friday, October 16, 2009
America, Heal Thyself: Healthcare As A Metaphor For Our National Political Pathology
(7 comments) Healthcare is only the start of America's problems. It is also the end.

Friday, October 9, 2009
Barry In The Bush With Smiles
(3 comments) Barack Obama's presidency is careening out of control, and that's on a good day. Most of the time it looks a lot like Bush's third term. That's neither change nor something to believe in.

Thursday, October 1, 2009
If The Russians Did This To Us, We'd Kill 'Em
(11 comments) America's overclass has treated this country far worse than the Russian's ever did. Too bad nobody has noticed.

Thursday, September 24, 2009
Dumping Dubya: Why The Regressive Right Desperately Wants To Erase The Bush Presidency
(4 comments) Remember W? The former president? Not if the right wing has anything to do with it. They want you you to forget him. Big time.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Obama Tries On The Uniform
(2 comments) Barack Obama looked a little tougher in his speech last night, but it is more than too little too late. He is fundamentally avoiding fundamentals.

Friday, September 4, 2009
After Obama
(4 comments) Very likely, the Obama administration is over already. But the post-Obama future looks even more bleak.

Saturday, August 29, 2009
Who Won The Ideology Wars?
(1 comments) For perhaps two centuries now, Western politics have been characterized by the struggle between left and right. With the death of Teddy Kennedy, this is a good time to assess where we are.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
My Country, Misery
(3 comments) No, it's not just your imagination. American politics are not what they once were, and we're the lesser for it.

Monday, August 17, 2009
Hey, (Cowering-In-The)Barracks Forshame Obummer: If You Would Lead, Maybe We Would Follow
(5 comments) The White House has been unimaginably inept as both their healthcare legislation and the presidency itself are rapidly tanking.

Monday, August 10, 2009
My 1933 Nightmare
(7 comments) It's not funny anymore. Not that it ever was. Last week's events are all too reminiscent of the beginnings of the darkest chapter in human history.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Hey, Did You Hear That Democrats Won The Election?!
(2 comments) Many people think the Obama administration is trying to do the best it can under tough circumstances, and we should cut them some slack. Those folks should think again.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The Great Miscommunicator
One of the greatest surprises about Barack Obama is that he turns out to be a pretty lousy communicator. Whodathunk that?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Kill The Supreme Court
(7 comments) Now that the snoozefest of the Sotomayor 'hearings' is over, it's worth thinking about what's wrong with the process, and what's wrong with the Court as well.

Friday, July 17, 2009
Scare-Ya Palin Outdoes Herself
(1 comments) Watching Sarah Palin in action is a scary and astonishing sight. Even more amazing and more frightening is the fact that so many millions of Americans adore her.

Friday, July 10, 2009
I Saw The News On Television Today, Oh Boy
(11 comments) Everything about Michael Jackson, his death, and the media feast surrounding it bode badly for what passes as a national culture in America.

Friday, June 12, 2009
The Rhetorical President
(4 comments) Barack Obama is disappointing on many fronts, but not rhetorically. That alone could be worth more than progressives realize.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
What's Wrong With Sotomayor Being Racist?
(1 comments) Apart from it being an obscene charge, why in the world would Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh have a problem with Sonia Sotomayor being racist, anyhow? Their entire movement has been racist for decades.

Monday, June 1, 2009
He Kept Us Safe (Except When He Didn't)
(4 comments) The one good thing you can say about the Bush administration is that they kept us safe after 9/11, right? That's a laugh.

Monday, May 25, 2009
Overcoming the Poverty of Ambition: Barack Obama and the Bully Pulpit
(1 comments) Barack Obama has the capacity to make enormous positive change simply by saying the right words. Indeed, this is the greatest power presidents have.

Saturday, May 9, 2009
Get Obama
(12 comments) Barack Obama looks like he's a real mover and shaker. Closer examination reveals something very different.

Friday, May 1, 2009
The Party Is Over
(10 comments) The GOP is on a suicide mission. Again. We should all be thankful for their patriotism.

Thursday, April 23, 2009
Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters
(3 comments) Could regressives possibly be any more buffoonish than they are? Stay tuned next week. And the next... And the next...

Friday, April 17, 2009
Home of the Barricaded, Land of the 'Fraid
(6 comments) The cost of America's military is astonishing, but far more than people realize. In order to pay twice what the rest of the world combined pays for our bloated military, we have become second rate in so many other ways.

Thursday, April 9, 2009
When The Hour Is Late, And Things Aren't Going So Great ... Just Fabricate
(1 comments) Regressives are losing on every front. So what are they doing? Just completely making it up as they go!

Friday, April 3, 2009
Regressive Hypocrisy (Yawn...) Again
(6 comments) They'rrrrrre Baaaaaack!!! What's the point of being a regressive if you can't live and breathe hypocrisy?

Saturday, March 28, 2009
The Republican Alternative Stimulus Plan
(5 comments) Whos says the Republicans don't have a stimulus plan of their own?!

Thursday, March 19, 2009
Barack Obama and the Altar of Greed
(4 comments) I don't know if Obama realizes it or not, but he is risking his entire presidency in order to make sure a handful of greedy thieves rip off the American taxpayer even more than they already have. Really, really dumb move.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
The Perils of Being Right and Wrong
(2 comments) Could the GOP possibly be more messed up? Could you make this stuff up, if you tried? Doubtful.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Smart Is The New Stupid (And Other Subtle But Profound Effects of the Obama Era)
(3 comments) We will all see clearly the major legislative and executive decisions Barack Obama will make as president. But there will be many other less visible effects as well, which are likely to be equally profound.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
America's Two-Party System
(3 comments) After watching both Barack Obama and Bobby Jindal in operation the other night, it becomes increasingly difficult anymore to sustain the notion that there's no difference between America's two political parties.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Who Will Be There For Obusha, When The Floor Drops Out?
(2 comments) And now for the bad news. In his first month in office, Barack Obama looks uncomfortably familiar to a certain other recent president.

Friday, February 13, 2009
Serve Republicans For Breakfast, Don't Take Them To Dinner
(2 comments) Obama has been making a huge mistake in the rollout of his administration and the management of the public agenda.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
All The Comforts of Home: Republicans Destroy, Democrats Serve Cookies
(8 comments) Republicans running wild, Democrats getting stomped. Gee, it's just like the 1990s!

Thursday, January 29, 2009
George Bush's Gift To The World - The End of American Imperialism
(9 comments) George Bush actually got some things right, even if accidentally. Thanks to him, for example, Americans are likely to be a lot less interested in imperialist adventures.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
What Was Said, And What Was Not
Barack Obama is off to a very fine start in only a few days in office. Just the same, I think the inauguration speech could have been stronger, and in a way that really matters in the long run.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
So, How'd You Like Your Beer?
Can it really be over? Yes, I think so? Can we ever make sense of what happened? That's gonna be difficult. Here's one take on understanding the Bush years.

Friday, January 9, 2009
Is There A Pill For Regressive-Induced, Hypocrisy-Produced, Chronic Nausea?
(5 comments) Now that regressives are out of power, all their principles seem to be rapidly changing. I think that's called hypocrisy, isn't it?

Thursday, January 1, 2009
More Jefferson, Less Rove
(2 comments) As the New Year rolls in, some thoughts about a positive agenda for an equally renewed country.

Monday, December 29, 2008
What To Expect While We're Expecting: Politics In the Time of Obama
(5 comments) What is coming around the corner? Democrats will be sobered from experience, Republicans will continue to embrace an insane ideology, while Barack Obama remains a bit of a mystery.

Sunday, December 21, 2008
Hey Reagan Democrats: Now Do You Get It?
(5 comments) Maybe even Reagan Democrats can now figure out what has been done to all of us by the regressive right.

Sunday, December 14, 2008
Tales From The Planet Bizarre, Episode 473: Still Lying, Still Allowed To Lie
(3 comments) Can it be, even yet today, that George Bush can still say anything - even the most outrageous lies - without being called on it? Yup.

Sunday, December 7, 2008
The Other Foot
(2 comments) What if progressives treated regressives the same way we've been treated this last decade?

Sunday, November 30, 2008
Hope You Die Before You Get Old
(32 comments) If the Baby Boomers could have left their children a country in lousier condition, it's hard to imagine how.

Sunday, November 23, 2008
What To Do When Your Party Sucks
The GOP, having wrecked America, is now having the favor returned in spades.

Sunday, November 16, 2008
The Ballot Heard 'Round The World
(2 comments) At the risk of the stating the obvious, the election of 2008 was huge. Here's how.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
My Michelle Moment: America Does Itself Proud
(1 comments) After thirty years of darkness, Tuesday marked an incredible breath of relief for the world. It was a good day to be alive.

Monday, November 3, 2008
John McCain Finally Gets Tough
(4 comments) All these months, John McCain's campaign has been a model of cleanliness. Now, finally, he is hitting hard.

Friday, October 31, 2008
Thirty Years Too Late: The Implosion of John McCain and the Demise of the Regressive Right
(3 comments) John McCain's problems are deeper than John McCain. They're even deeper than George W. Bush.

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Remind Me Again - Who Won The Cold War?
(1 comments) After the Cold War, I thought socialism was supposed to be dead and capitalism all the rage. Recent events have left me rather... um, confused.

Friday, October 17, 2008
Payback's A Bitch
(9 comments) It's getting ugly out there. And that's just within the Republican Party.

Friday, October 10, 2008
This Just In: Greed Is Not Good
(2 comments) Underlying the current financial crisis is more than just a lack of regulation. This is rooted in the bankruptcy of America's moral code.

Sunday, October 5, 2008
The Reality-Based Community Returns To Life
(8 comments) The 2008 presidential election is finally starting to make some sense.

Thursday, September 25, 2008
America's Elephant In The Room
(8 comments) As catastrophe piles upon catastrophe, how can it be that 'conservative' and 'Republican' aren't the dirtiest of words?

Friday, September 19, 2008
Whoa and Woe: Living In Sarah Palin's America
(1 comments) The fact that Sarah Palin could be president says as much about us as it does her, and it ain't pretty.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Democrats Do Poland (Again)
Obama is recapitulating the capitulations of Dukakis, Gore and Kerry. Brilliant.

Sunday, September 7, 2008
Country Last
(3 comments) What a scary show the Republicans put on in St. Paul.

Sunday, August 31, 2008
A Mile High In Denver
(1 comments) Obama rang all the bells at the DNC in Denver.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
John McCain Discovers America
John McCain has figured out that Americans are worse off than they were four years ago. Wow! Who knows what else he might discover!

Thursday, August 14, 2008
My Army Went To Iraq And All I Got Is This Lousy Airlift: The Bush Doctrine Meets Reality. Reality Wins
(1 comments) The war in Georgia is connected at the hip to the Iraq debacle. Here's why.

Thursday, August 7, 2008
The Fire This Time?
(2 comments) This doesn't seem like your garden variety recession.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Barackis Dukakis? McCain Slings from the Sewer While Obama Says Little
(5 comments) McCain has now headed straight for the gutter. Obama needs to hit back. Hard.

Thursday, July 24, 2008
McCain Melts Down (Ronald McDonald Rejects VP Offer)
(3 comments) If John McCain could be running a lousier campaign, I don't know how.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
A Government of People, After All
The Baker-Christopher Commission is trying to give presidents more war-making power, not less.

Thursday, July 3, 2008
The Ashes Have Been Passed To A New Generation
(2 comments) Can we really be so insane as to watch while global warming wrecks our only home?

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Now Comes The Hard Part
(1 comments) Is Obama FDR or Bill Clinton?

Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Poverty of Reaganism-Bushism
(2 comments) Marxism-Leninism may be a failed ideology, but Reaganism-Bushism is worse. It's kleptocracy masquerading as ideology.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Ugly: The Future of the Republican Party
The GOP is going down, but what happens next is less clear. Four possibilities seem most likely.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
A Whole School of Trout in the Milk: What We Already Know About Iraq From the People Who Launched the War
Scott McClellan is only the latest to reveal the truth about Iraq.

Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Audacity of Dopes: The Regressive Right's Happy Memorial Day Message to the Troops
Once again, the right shows its support for the troops.

Friday, May 23, 2008
Why I'm Kinda Fonda Obama (And More So Each Week)
(4 comments) It took me a while to warm up to Obama. But now I like what I see.

Thursday, May 15, 2008
Hillary Clinton Is The Madonna of American Politics
(3 comments) What Madonna did to rock-and-roll, Hillary is doing to the Democratic Party.

Friday, May 9, 2008
It's So Over
(1 comments) Give it up, already, Hillary.

Thursday, May 1, 2008
John McCain and the Luck of the (Scotch-)Irish
How Could John McCain Possibly Still Be In Contention To Win The PResidency?

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Let's All Pretend
(1 comments) Cover your ears! Obama is telling the truth again!

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Seven Ridiculously Practical Recommendations For Curbing America's Addiction To War
(11 comments) Some changes we can make to end the madness of war

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Back to Disaster: Channeling Hoover at Home, Tet Abroad
George Bush is determined to make Herbert Hoover look good on the economy, and Lyndon Johnson on war policy.

Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Swiftboating of Barack Obama
Barack Obama's honesty and intelligence in his speech on race is the best thing to happen in American politics in a long time. And the biggest threat possible to the regressive right.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Happy Anniversary, America! How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?
(5 comments) Five years of war in Iraq. Oh boy. Really worked out well, eh?

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Why Eliot Spitzer Should Have Resigned ... And Why He Shouldn't Have
(2 comments) Sex and the State in America

Thursday, March 6, 2008
A Not-So-Simple Twist of Fate: Could Hillary Bequeath Us Our Long-Awaited Third Party?
(2 comments) Among the ramifications of the election results from Tuesday are the increased chances of a third party in America.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Good Time(ing) Bill: William F. Buckley and the Damage Done
(5 comments) We will not miss the destruction wrought by Buckley and his ideology

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Sickenme Flimflam Clinton: Will No One Rid Us of This Troublesome Beast?
For the Clintons, it's all about them. Enough already.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Love, American Style
Americans, it turns out, are a little bit more warlike than they prefer to imagine.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Not Bad. Not Half-Bad.
(3 comments)

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Particide In Six Easy Steps: Diligent Democrats Demonstrate Dumbness Daily
It's easier than you might think to destroy a political party. Check out the Democrats' sure-fire prescription.

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Clinton Reflux Syndrome

Thursday, January 24, 2008
What A Great Freakin' War!!
(5 comments)

Thursday, January 17, 2008
So You Wanna Be My President, Huh? Answer Me This!
(1 comments)

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Dispatch from the North Country: Of Hamsters New, Hope In Blue, and 'Change' Out the Wazoo

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Missing In Inaction: Why An Opposition Party Matters
(4 comments)

Thursday, December 27, 2007
You're Damn Right I'm Angry. Why Isn't Everybody?
(8 comments)

Thursday, December 20, 2007
Everything I Need to Know About the Regressive Right I Learned in Junior High
(1 comments) I don't know about you, but I thought once around through junior high was enough. I've never been particularly anxious to relive the experience. Hey, we don't even allow freaked-out, immature, mood-swinging, devil-incarnate, little junior high brats to get behind the wheel of a car, let alone drive a country. And for good reason. You know? So who the hell handed these terminal adolescents keys to the ship of

Friday, December 14, 2007
Sore Losermen
(4 comments)

Thursday, December 6, 2007
Getting Past "Oh!" Why Americans Misunderestimate the Depravity of the President They Hate
(5 comments)

Thursday, November 29, 2007
The 'Surge' Is Working? Fine. Then Bush Should Be Impeached.
(1 comments)

Thursday, November 22, 2007
If Conservatism Is The Ideology of Freedom, I'm The Queen of England
(3 comments)

Thursday, November 15, 2007
No Prisoners: How To Win In 2008

Friday, November 9, 2007
A Beautiful Corpse: Sixteen Sure Signs That The Regressive Right Is Over
(3 comments)

Thursday, November 1, 2007
western Civ, 2307: In Case You Ever Wonder What They'll Think of Us
(1 comments)

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Just For the Sake of Argument, What Would It Look Like If a President Didn't Give a Damn About Terrorism?
(2 comments)

Friday, October 19, 2007
Al Gore's Inaugural Address: January 20, 2009
(1 comments)

Thursday, October 11, 2007
The Coming Progressive Era
(2 comments)

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Murdering Butter With Guns

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Buyer's Remorse: Their Purchase, Our Regret

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Hiding Behind The Camouflage Skirt

Thursday, September 13, 2007
I Was Thinking About Becoming A Republican...
(1 comments)

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Oh Shit, That Kid? Desperation, the GOP, and the (Folksy) Second Coming of... Fred?
(1 comments)

Friday, August 31, 2007
American Indigestion: Why Bush Governs From The Gut

Friday, August 24, 2007
History Is The Last Refuge of Scoundrels
(1 comments)

Thursday, August 16, 2007
Karl Rove and the Damage Done
(1 comments)

Thursday, August 9, 2007
Give It Back, Dick: A Modest Proposal Concerning Money, War and Politics

Friday, August 3, 2007
Conservatism Is Politics For Kindergartners
(4 comments)

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Forget Third Parties – It Ain't Gonna Happen: Hijack The Democrats Instead
(5 comments)

Thursday, July 19, 2007
When Harry Met Harry: Reid Finally Starts Channeling Truman Instead of Dukakis
(2 comments)

Thursday, July 12, 2007
In The Last Throes, Judiciously

Thursday, July 5, 2007
It's Scalia Time!

Thursday, June 28, 2007
It Ain't For Free

Thursday, June 21, 2007
If Reid Were Rove
(1 comments)

Thursday, June 14, 2007
What Every American Should Know About Iraq

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
How Ronald Reagan Won The Cold War
(6 comments)

Thursday, June 7, 2007
The Gore Door
(1 comments)

Sunday, June 3, 2007
Our Loss
(4 comments)

Friday, June 1, 2007
Cowering In The Suburbs of Berlin
(1 comments)

Thursday, May 24, 2007
Winston Churchill Bush? Nah. Guess Again.

Thursday, May 17, 2007
Now, I Am Become Death, The Destroyer of Worlds
(2 comments)

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Two Ideologies And A Funeral
(1 comments)

Thursday, May 3, 2007
One Day You're Gonna Wake Up
(1 comments)

Friday, April 27, 2007
Schadenfreude Is My Middle Name
(6 comments)

Friday, April 20, 2007
Dark of Heartness, Part II: Compassionless Conservatives
Et tu, Wolfie? Et tu?

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Dark of Heartness: A Journey Into The (Reputed) Soul of Conservatism
(2 comments)

Friday, April 6, 2007
You Can Smell It.
(2 comments) The president's fellow bottom-dwellers of the right who helped create this disaster have been slow enough to disassociate themselves from Bush and his war that it is now taking out the entire movement and the party which represents that movement. Regressive conservatism, the GOP, and the political opportunists who represent both are dead. You can smell it.

Sunday, April 1, 2007
American Mugabe
(1 comments)

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Torture Her!

Friday, March 23, 2007
Afghanistan Proves It
(2 comments)

Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The Sport of King George
(1 comments)

Friday, March 9, 2007
Your Genitals: The Great Moral Issues of Our Time

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Someone Needs A Times-Out

Thursday, March 23, 2006
We Were Right, They Were Wrong
(1 comments) GOP Neanderthals in Congress keep waking up screaming from the same recurrent nightmare, in which they’re drowning under a flood of pink slips, all blissfully signed by a cross-eyed and drooling George W. Bush in the foreground against some Daliesque tableau of melting clocks and angry headless voters menacingly marching in their direction, knives and forks in hand.