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Anthony Barnes, of Boston, Massachusetts, is a free-lance writer who leans toward the progressive end of the political spectrum.
"When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world." - Unknown Monk (1100 AD)
Monday, December 5, 2011 A Real Newt Cake (2 comments)
Newt Gingrich calls himself "the most professorial politician since Woodrow Wilson." I call bullshit. Sure, Newt's been the recipient of a great education, the problem is, he seems to have been educated beyond his intelligence.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 Pee Wee Herman (1 comments)
In terms of pure political theatre, it would be marvelous to fantasize about an Obama-Cain debate that could legitimately carry the epic potential of a Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao showdown; but that's about all it is -- a marvelous fantasy.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 HARD RIGHT UTOPIA (3 comments)
It's time for a serious examination of just what kind of American society the hard right is looking for
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Death and Texas (15 comments)
Has American culture reached a point to where Rick Perry can be seriously considered presidential material? If so, what does that say about American culture?
Thursday, September 1, 2011 LEADING FROM BEHIND (2 comments)
During the eight years that Bush controlled the White House, Dick Cheney seemed more a shadow President than a Vice President particularly on matters of national security and foreign policy. Cheney's recently-published memoir, In My Life, reminds us of the toll taken on the ex-president's legacy resulting from Bush's willingness to make him perhaps the most powerful Vice President in history.
Sunday, August 7, 2011 Hope Less? (3 comments)
Due to an apparent obsession with a bi-partisanism, and a seemingly overwhelming desire to compromise, it appears the President Obama has also compromised his prospects for re-election.
Thursday, July 28, 2011 The Fools on The Hill (4 comments)
At this point, there is little doubt that the Republican Party is willing to plunge the world into fiscal crisis if by doing so, it can recapture the White House.
Friday, July 22, 2011 Pledge Circus (15 comments)
"Pledge-mania" is running amok among Republicans, and it's helping drive the Party into political irrelevancy
Thursday, November 4, 2010 The "Farce" Urgency of Now (3 comments)
In all frankness, the ugly implication of the results of the mid-term elections is that the GOP's political gains are simply the fruit borne of its success at cultivating ignorance.
Thursday, October 21, 2010 Strange Brew
Having suddenly emerged from every orifice of the right-wing body politic like a nasty retro-virus, the GOP/Tea Party candidates are now poised to execute their agenda.
Monday, October 11, 2010 Obama's Bogey Man (2 comments)
De-legitimizing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is one aspect of the ill-advised campaign initiated by the previous administration designed to culminate in widespread regime change among Mid-East nations. But could it also turn out to be a tool used to help Obama in 2012?
Monday, September 20, 2010 FRAUD COMPLEX (1 comments)
There are many reasons why the spiritually-connective clarity and apocalypse now tonality to the alarm used by Glenn Beck to draw so much attention to himself should be a source of concern.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 DOCTORS of DECEIT (1 comments)
Wing-nuts with issues! Right wing conservative leadership is flush with high profile hustlers flawed by personal issues of their own which ought to raise questions among followers about the credibility of many spokespersons for the conservative values.
Sunday, August 1, 2010 ERRORS AND NO FACTS: Business as Usual at Fox News (11 comments)
The Fox News Corp's issues with credibility take yet another hit after a clumsily-executed smear campaign backfires.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Spook Juice for the Conspiracy-Minded
Conspiracy theorists take heart. Just because some people may consider you paranoid, doesn't necessarily mean someone, or something isn't out to get you!
Friday, July 16, 2010 ISRAEL'S SHAME (3 comments)
It appears we have come to the point at which there is no level of support for Palestinians -- including peaceful humanitarian support -- which escapes the possibility of a savagely lethal Israeli reaction.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 Bin Laden's Flunkies (19 comments)
As the anti-government Tea Party Patriots movement's "take back my country" crusade spirals further into the secessionist mode, the line between its goals and those of Osama bin Laden become ever more blurry.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 TIGER'S FOLLY
If some of the high-minded outrage that's been expressed over Tiger Woods "transgressions" somehow carry a hollow ring, it's probably because many of his critics have discovered they were fooled not by Woods, but by their own willingness to latch on to a cult of personality.
Monday, October 26, 2009 BABES in TOYLAND
Due to its constant distortions of fact, anyone with a desire to gain insight on the conservative philosophy will soon learn that it can't be fulfilled by the Fox News Channel.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009 POST-RACIAL DIVIDE (4 comments)
Through crass displays of racially-tinged pseudo-populism, some Americans have made it clear that change of the type President Obama spoke of, change which was endorsed by voters on November 4th, will never be allowed to occur.
Thursday, September 10, 2009 Rx, LIES, & TOWN HALL HATE
It's the "Idiocracy" in full effect. The thus-far successful effort to kill health care reform provides the strongest evidence yet of the existence of a bizarro world of off-kilter "populism".
Monday, June 22, 2009 BOOTLEG REPUBLICANISM (2 comments)
The GOP's embrace of Limbaugh-Republicanism leads the party to the brink of cult-like status
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Run, Sarah, Run! Please! (1 comments)
Out of the aftermath of the rise of Sarah Palin from the ashes of the GOP defeat by the Democrats in November, the Grand Old Party finds itself in a "be careful what you wish for" moment in its history. Despite Palin's popularity with its base, the fervent wish of some GOP conservatives for a Palin-led GOP resurgence could in fact, turn out to be a death wish in disguise.
Monday, November 10, 2008 OBA-MENON! (6 comments)
Barack Obama certainly won the support of the African-American community, and earned it for all the right reasons.
Saturday, September 27, 2008 McCain "Plays" the Base
John McCain's coyly executed Sarah Palin VP rollout strategy reveals just how little regard he has for the judgment his party's conservative base. In some ways, his attitude is justified.
Saturday, September 13, 2008 PIG TALES (5 comments)
The ease with which supporters of Sen. John McCain can be swept into frenzy over Sen. Barack Obama's "lipstick on a pig" remark provides another example of the ability of the hard-right to zealously swallow up any appropriately-packages fraud or irrationally convoluted premise.
Sunday, May 4, 2008 The High Priests of Hyperbole! (2 comments)
To some minority conservative pundits, America's racial problem consists of African-Americans and other minorities who fail to realize that there is no racial problem in America. In their attempts to prove this, they often resort to providing anecdotes instead of hard facts.
Friday, October 19, 2007 End of an Error (1 comments)
As Nobel Prize winner Al Gore receives the world's acclaim, many Americans count the days until the end of the Bush era.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 MO' BITTER BLUES (2 comments)
Clarence Thomas' autobiography, is a vivid and dramatic display of obfuscatory finger-pointing which is why it probably should be ignored.
Monday, May 7, 2007 George Bush's Acid Reign in Iraq: Pernicious Nation-building Creates a Failed State
Even were it overtly promoted as a lethal, pnac-inspired exercise in iraqi-style disaster capitalism, furthered along by bush's oedipal urge to finish the job started by his father, the complicated nature of the iraqi culture all but assured that, desired or not, the iraqi venture as undertaken by the bushies, would oscillate into full-blown nation-building. At that point, the failure of the Iraq mission was all but sealed.
Thursday, March 1, 2007 Everybody Loves Rudy! But to Some, the Question is Why? (3 comments)
This artice focuses on the upcoming presidential compaign of Rudy Giuliani. Specifically, the fact that Rudy will rely heavily on the "heroic " image derived from his activities during the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 and advises voters to look closely at Rudy's overall management of that crisis along with examining closely, his temperment.
Friday, August 18, 2006 Death by Deception: "Faulty" Intelligence, Deliberate Deception and the Case for Due Process
Taking a look at the subtle acceptance by insiders who should probably know better, of the "faulty" or "flawed" intelligence excuse used by the Bush Administration which may help it escape accountability for what was actually deliberate deception. The idea that so many people have died due to a deliberate campaign of misinformation seems to have been lost by many.
