17 Articles

Monday, January 19, 2009
Our new national holiday: Pardon Cheney Day?
(2 comments) With what intention did Cheney and others fess up to their involvement in torture? Is this the criminal-liability equivalent of a Ponzi scheme?

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The Real America is Thinly Scattered
In the wake of an historic election, we must ask: Where IS the real America these days? Can anyone still find it? Not in the countryside...

Friday, November 7, 2008
We're All Americans Now--Even Midwesterners
(6 comments) Barack Obama, prejudice, and a tongue-in-cheek stroll through electoral history

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Do Polls Mean Anything in an Age of Fraud?
(12 comments) Obama seems on the verge of a commanding victory, but what is really going to happen when they "count" the votes?

Monday, November 3, 2008
The Smart Progressive's Guide to Election Night
(1 comments) Although the presidential election probably won't be officially clinched until polls close in the Pacific, there's a good chance it could be all over but the shouting as much as three hours sooner. Here's how you can tell.

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Mississippi
(7 comments) Bush's ruthless ICE conducts the largest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, and what do fellow workers do? Snitch and clap. The state of Mississippi has a long, dark history, and it seems its darker-skinned residents can still expect the same.

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Wackadoo nation
(2 comments) The Supreme Court's gun ruling pastes into the Constitution a principle that has long been evident in national affairs: the wackadoos are in command.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Clinton's not fighting to win on points
(5 comments) Hillary will probably win in Pennsylvania, but probably not by nearly big enough of a margin to enable her to mount a comeback and win the popular vote, let alone the pledged delegates. But remember this, as the results roll in: for her, this has ceased to be primarily about winning the people's votes.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Did Obama channel Lincoln...or did his pastor?
(14 comments) "If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came..."

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Watch out for Spring Break, Democrats
(2 comments) In the Democratic presidential primaries, everyone's obsessing over Ohio, Texas, and the superdelegates - more or less following Clinton's own spin. But one of the most problematic and possibly decisive features of the electoral calendar has received little comment.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Latest Zogby polls show Hillary in serious danger
(1 comments) Pundits are chanting that Obama's closing, but not fast enough. But Zogby shows he may have already eliminated Clinton's lead in two big states where she's long had a comfortable cushion.

Friday, January 11, 2008
Spin squared
Us poor ignorant voters aren't allowed to decide who we like by the old-fashioned method of voting any more. Instead, the media tell us who we're GOING to vote for, enabling them to choose for us.

Friday, November 23, 2007
Ron Paul's History of Virulent Racism (part 1)
(58 comments) 15 years ago, Ron Paul's newsletter said, "Our country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists - and they can be identified by the color of their skin." His attempt to deny responsibility for these words is completely unconvincing.

Thursday, September 13, 2007
A Holy Day in the Empire
(2 comments) Unfortunately, 9/11 was nowhere close to the worst thing that ever happened. But the American Empire has transformed it into the most revered icon in the national religion--with lethal consequences.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
For once, putting democracy first
(1 comments) California's new Secretary of State just pulled the plug on unverifiable, hackable touchscreen voting machines, setting the state on a path to paper ballots for 2008.

Thursday, August 2, 2007
The insolence of office
What do our leaders promise when they take the oath of office? Is is to defend America against evil-doers? What does the oath say about loyalty to the president? Does it involve the Bible? Did Keith Ellison change the oath when he used the Koran instead? The people running our government and claiming all but unlimited powers don't want you to know what they actually swore to when they took office.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Fight for your freedom to work in a sweatshop - VOTE LIBERTARIAN!
(2 comments) Libertarians' claim that they would keep government out of people's lives is a crock. Why do so many progressives find their ideas appealing?