(9 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 4, 2011
Will we allow the Republicans to make the poor and the unemployed into the Jews of 1930s Germany? One of the first things the Nazis did at the start of their program for the total oppression of the Jews was to make it unlawful for them to vote. The Jews were declared treasonous, unpatriotic, unproductive and anti-German. The Republicans are saying the same things about the poor and the unemployed.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 2, 2011
Please sir, permission to speak now, Mr. Boehner? Obama hasn't learned what the definition is of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

SHARE        Monday, August 22, 2011
Study shows genetics determines Republicanism The current issue of the journal Genetics Today has an article by scientists announcing the discovery that affiliation with Republicanism is genetically determined.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Obama's debt deal is even worse than we thought Nothing in this debt deal Obama made with the Republicans is what it looks like on the surface. A little analysis shows that both Obama and the Republicans completely misread each other.

SHARE        Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Obama should be impeached, but the Republicans would prevent that The next logical thing to do is impeach Obama, but we won't get anywhere with that because of the Republicans.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 1, 2011
No matter what happens on August 3, it's time to abandon this government Our government has always told us that our money we are required to put into Social Security would always be there for us when we retire. Now, for the first time, this government is telling us that is not necessarily true. This government has abandoned us.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 29, 2011
Woah! Wait a minute. Look at what's wrong with this The Republicans have wanted to kill Social Security for just about forever. Well, it looks like they're going to get their way.

(8 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 27, 2011
An answer to Rob Kall's question Rob Kall asked an incisive question. Why are about 100 million Americans allowing themselves to be screwed over by the powers that be? I asked God about that and got an equivocal answer.

(10 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 21, 2011
When the worst is the best; why Rick Perry is the best Republican candidate The Republicans are having a hard time coming up with a candidate for President. The candidates who have announced have the shared flaw of not having hit all of the points required to fulfill Republican ideology. If they'll just dig a little deeper, all the way to the bottom of the barrel, they'll find what they're looking for - Rick Perry.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 16, 2011
Looks like Obama has come down with a case of creeping Republicanism Obama was elected on his promise of change. We assumed that he meant change from bad to better. But, his infection with Reublicanism ideology about Social Security takes things from bad to worse.

SHARE        Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Republican history does repeat, and rhymes, and echoes Mark Twain said that history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. He died in 1910, without the experience of the Great Depression and the Great Recession repeat performances of the Republicans. They're repeating now the same things they said then.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 1, 2011
Republicans fail in attempt to re-write Sarah Palin's history In his comments about his movie about Sarah Palin, "The Undefeated," Stephen Bannon makes outrageous, false statements about Palin's history.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 23, 2011
Scalia Brings Sharia Law and Blank Paper Law to Supreme Court Sharia law, the main effect of which is the suppression of women, has been brought into practice by Antonin Scalia in a Supreme Court opinion, along with an innovative concept, Blank Paper Law.

(19 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 29, 2011
You need to read this! Rob Kall's declaration of war On Thursday, April 28, Rob Kall published an article here on OpEdNews, Time For the Left To Declare Bloody, Ugly War BACK. You need to go read that article and prepare your self for action.

SHARE        Thursday, April 28, 2011
A Bookstore Epiphany In an article here on OpEdNews, Robert S. Becker makes a very good point with the title: Needed: A Disruptive Donald On the Left. He's right, we need one, but there's a reason why we won't get one.

(8 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 25, 2011
What it takes to be a Republican, the Loughner-Phelps/Republican connection The things it takes to be a Republican are all negatives. Insufferable arrogance, invincible ignorance, proud hypocrisy, total irrationality, deceit as a virtue, mental vacuity, and the list goes on.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Supreme Court Republicans set for more hypocrisy in the Westboro decision Watch for it. When a lawsuit against the Republican's law against union bargaining reaches the Supreme Court, the Republicans on the court will hypocritically ignore their Westboro free speech decision.

SHARE        Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Capitalism brings an end to capitalism In an article in the New York Times, Felix Salmon bemoans the end of capitalism without realizing that what he's blaming it on is capitalism.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 14, 2011
There's a very good reason Sarah Palin can be elected President If you want to know how Sarah Palin could easily be elected President, just consider George Bush.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 14, 2011
There are 310,800,000 suspect terrorists in the USA George Bush signed into law the TSA that makes every person, every citizen of the United States, a suspect terrorist.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 12, 2011
See, I Told You So Comes Back Around to Bite Rush Limbaugh Appropriately, the title of Rush Limbaugh's book, See, I Told You So, is exactly the proper phrase to describe the exactly predicted response Limbaugh would make.

SHARE        Sunday, January 9, 2011
Let the Spin Begin. Lamar Alexander Kicks it Off How the Republican hate mongers will put the blame for the Arizona shootings on everyone but themselves and make it, as usual, the best thing that has ever happened for Republicans.

SHARE        Wednesday, November 17, 2010
BS and circuses, and the end of empires The Republicans are offering bullshit and circuses instead of bread and circuses to distract the people from their failure to govern.

SHARE        Thursday, November 4, 2010
Obama's 2012 campaign for re-election started on November 3, and he's already lost it The people I've talked to who voted for Obama in 2008 and didn't vote in the 2010 election say that they can't see much difference between a sleazy Democratic politician and a sleazy Republican politician. Maybe they're right.

SHARE        Thursday, November 4, 2010
Want to know why the Democrats lost? Here are two headlines that tell you why We've been pointing out the obvious fact that the Republicans live in a delusional, fantasy world that they've made up to suit themselves. They're not the only ones. Obama is still living in his own delusional, fantasy world.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Mistaking the symptom for the disease Cristine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, Michele Bachmann are just three examples of the pustules on the posterior of our country. These pustulant eruptions are only the symptoms of a disease affecting most of the population.

(11 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The worst is yet to come; foreclosure fraud is the banksters' least problem There's an overlooked requirement of contract law that is the real problem for the banksters, and they don't appear to be aware of it. If the requirements of contract law were met it would make every original mortgage note that a bank sold to another bank invalid, unenforceable and uncollectable immediately upon sale.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Understanding Republicans; Sea Squirt Brain Ejection and TGDNITWH At last, we have a biological explanation for the phenomenon that is the Republicans.

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 14, 2010
Getting a Congress that represents us Consider the question: Can someone who makes $174,000 a year be representative of you? Even if they're not, can they be a representative for you? The answer is no, but there's a way to get representatives of and for us in Congress.

SHARE        Friday, August 13, 2010
The solution to watching TV, football and golf There are some things you might not know about watching TV, football and golf.

(7 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 12, 2010
There are no liberals An article here on OEN by Rob Kall points out the White House elite's disdain for what they call the "professional left." We are mistaken to let the White House, the conservatives or the Republicans define us.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 1, 2010
Lessons not learned: Shirley, Andrew is not the one who fired you Several people have proposed that there are lessons to be learned from the Breitbart Fraud Affair perpetrated on Shirley Sherrod. The most important lesson to be learned, falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, is not among them.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 19, 2010
It's my Party and I'll lie if I want to That's the Republican Party doing the talking, there. In a decision by a Republican judge appointed by Republican George Bush, the judge has sanctioned lying as perfectly acceptable behavior.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 9, 2010
Do not go gentle into that Republican night With apologies to Dylan Thomas, question for you. Are we going to let out country become Glenn Beck's abomination of a corporate theocracy, ruled by lying hypocrites, the Republicans?

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 17, 2009
The Heart of Hypocrisy, Tarrant County, Texas Tarrant County, Texas is number three on the list of the nation's counties that get the most federal money. From listening to the Republicans who run it, it's number one on the hypocrisy list.

SHARE        Monday, December 14, 2009
John Boehner, the Man with the Plan The December 11 Washington Post has an article by John Boehner titled, "A better plan for jobs." I defy anyone, Boehner included, to read through the article and find anything that even remotely resembles a plan. It's just another re-hash of failed Republican ideology.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 12, 2009
Without universal health care there can be no reform of our absurd health care system What Congress is calling health care reform is as absurd as our existing health care system. Universal health care is the only meaningful health care reform.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 10, 2009
We gave Bush hell for it, now it's Obama's turn In all fairness, when Obama does the same thing for which we called George Bush a war criminal, how can we not apply the same standard to Obama?

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 28, 2009
The Rise of the Barbarians Someone was asked what would they tell Obama is the greatest threat to the United States. The answer was the Afghanistan war and terrorism. Neither one is even close. Obama is standing right in the middle of the greatest threat to the United States, looking at it every day. That threat is the cult of Republicanism.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 22, 2009
The NYT Presents the Living Definition of Republican Obtuseness The New York Times' Ross Douthat takes on Dan Brown's novel "Angels and Demons" in a pointless attempt to conflate fiction with fact.

(13 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 14, 2009
An Article as Proctoscope for Dick Cheney and Richard Cohen The only thing we can do with an article by Richard Cohen about how Dick Cheney might be right about torture, is to take it apart, re-assemble it as a proctoscope, lubricate it and stick it up both their asses.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 8, 2009
US government document says Bybee and Yoo must go to jail Doing a little research, I came across a US government document that says specifically that because the content of their torture memos endeavors to persuade other persons to engage in such conduct, they must go to jail. It says that absolutely, unequivocally and without doubt.

SHARE        Thursday, April 30, 2009
The Specter of Opportunism and Expediency Specter: a haunting or disturbing image or prospect. Arlen Specter's Republicanism couldn't be more in evidence. He's using the standard Republican tactics of expediency and opportunism by saying he wants to now, after all these years, be a Democrat.

(9 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 19, 2009
Hayden and Mukasey Admit to Conspiracy to Torture Michael Hayden and Michael Mukasey, the former, we are thankful for that, Director of the CIA and Attorney General, come right out and admit that they go along with and approve of torture that violates United States law.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 18, 2009
Some straight talk to Mike Allen and the Republicans An article at Think Progress about Politico's Mike Allen pissing and moaning about the DHS report warning about the danger of rightwing extremists deserves some straight talk.

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 16, 2009
Atticus Finch lost to George Bush but defeated the Republicans There's a prescient analogy in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, to recent and current events. All the characters are there, representing the forces of good and evil that we see in operation today.

SHARE        Monday, April 13, 2009
Broder's call for bipartisanship is the best evidence for partinship In David Broder's April 12 column, "The need for bipartisanship," Broder ignores or has forgotten the evidence he presented in his own column of eight weeks ago showing that when dealing with Republicans, partisanship is needed and is what works.

(31 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 11, 2009
Paranoid Republicans are projecting their own evil ways onto liberals Just think for a minute about where all those false accusations about what the evil liberals are going to do to the Republicans comes from. It comes from within the Republicans.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Geithner and Others are Dumping a Load of Bullcrap on Us Dissecting the terminology that financial wizards such as Geithner and others are using to sell us on their efforts to rescue their buddies in the financial industry shows that they're still, even now, after the lessons learned from the Bush administration, phrasing it in terms that are designed to obscure the truth.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 24, 2009
By Coming to this Website, You're Looking at the Future of Journalism An article from The Nation gives a thorough explanation of the failure of the country's newspapers. Their solution for the saving of journalism is government support. But, the future of journalism has already been set, as can be seen here on OpEdNews.

(12 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 8, 2009
Will an anthrax commission do any better than the Warren and the 9/11 commission? The Warren Commission to investigate President Kennedy's assassination and the 9/11 Commission to investigate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 raised more questions than they answered. There are striking similarities between those events and the anthrax attacks that account for this.

(7 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 19, 2009
Republican Lawyers Offer Proof that George Bush is a War Criminal In a February 17 article in the Washington Post, David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey flat out make the case that George Bush is a war criminal without even realizing it. They thought they were only referring to President Obama, but what they say applies equally to George Bush.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Here's why newspapers are going out of business An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram shows why newspapers are going out of business and can't compete with the internet.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 6, 2009
Selective Preemption and Ducks Bush felt safe waging preemptive war, since it doesn't affect him, but preemptive pardons are another matter.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 7, 2008
Impeachment Desuetude Will Foster Presidential Crimes There's more than just the reason that George Bush is a despicable criminal to prosecute him for his crimes. It's the "Use it or lose it" principle. It's the legal doctrine of desuetude, where the non-use of a law renders it invalid. It says that if we don't prosecute Bush in a timely manner, the laws against his crimes no longer apply, and he gets away with it. And future presidents will, too.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 22, 2008
More than a Liberal Thanks to Margaret Bassett for posting an article by Michael Lind, Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of Progressive? That brings up other questions, are we actually either one, and can a single label of any kind accurately describe who we are?

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, October 30, 2008
Did you know that Jonah Goldberg's and Obama's skin color are different? Jonah Goldberg has an October, 29 article that starts right off with the first words of the blatantly racist title, "Skin color is all that's new about Obama." Well, Goldberg's skin color is just as new as Obama's. And, Obama had no more to do with his skin color than Goldberg did with his own skin color. So, why is Obama's skin color an issue for Goldberg? And, why does Goldberg write an article with so many mistakes?

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 25, 2008
We've met the enemy and he is a Republican The United States has been attacked and brought to ruination far more effectively than any foreign enemy could ever have hoped for. One of the leaders of the attack, Alan Greenspan, has acknowledged the success of his attack and at the same time has only said that he was wrong in how he went about it. His weapon against the United States was Republican, conservative, free market ideology.

SHARE        Monday, October 6, 2008
When trickle down became bailout became flood up I was born and grew up on a farm with an outhouse. I know what trickles down. I've seen it and smelled it. I've also seen a lot of horseshit, and I can smell and recognize it when I see it. We've been told that trickle down economics is good for us. Turns out that trickle down was just a way to hold us off until Bush and his Republican corporate cronies could turn trickle down into flood up.

SHARE        Sunday, September 21, 2008
Hold off on the schadenfreude, we're the ones who are about to get screwed. Rob Kall correctly points out that the story presented by the Bush administration for the justification for the bailout of the financial institutions is the same as the hoopla, spin and lies presented for the WMD story about Iraq. Not much to it, it's wrong and it comes from the same congenital liars as before, things that we knew then weren't true, and we know now aren't true.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 10, 2008
If we're smarter than the Republicans, why aren't we as good at lying as they are? John McCain knows something that Obama doesn't. He knows that the majority of voters are of the Limbaugh proletariat and if he can lie his way into making them believe that he shares their shallowness, he'll get the majority of the vote. Stands to reason. He's presenting himself and Palin like parking lot puddles, small and shallow, just what Limbaugh voters can identify with.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 9, 2008
The Palin Catalyst Take equal parts of superstition, fear and ignorance, throw in the catalyst of a nominee for Vice President who is already the single, perfect combination of those ingredients and the reaction produces the enthusiasm for the reversion to case-hardened, hermetically sealed mindlessness that is the driving force that is at the bottom of the hard-right, fundamentalist, religion obsessed fanaticism of the McCain/Palin supporters.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 6, 2008
The problem is not the qualifications of the candidate, it's the qualifications of the voter George Bush didn't get to be president all by himself. He had a little help, from 62 million voters, grossly incompetent voters. It is self evident that the people who voted for the most unqualified, ill-equipped man to be president, George Bush, not only once, but twice in a row, and are going to the polls again, are by definition also as unqualified and ill-equipped as he is.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 3, 2008
God says that Palin thinks He's George Bush God stops by for coffee, occasionally, on His way to work. This morning we got to talking about the claims of Sarah Palin and Ed Kalnins, the pastor of her long time church. God said He'd never heard of any of these people.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 1, 2008
Republicans say Palin passes the Goodling Test Here we go, again. Republican pundits are just tickled pink that Sarah Palin has the only qualification needed to be the next Vice President. She has passed the Goodling Test.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 28, 2008
We need to nail the Constitution to the desk in the Oval Office When you get a new toy, an appliance, a computer, any complicated device, you usually get a set of instructions on how to operate it. The Constitution is the operating instructions for the United States. The President, being the executive officer of our nation, needs to have those instructions hand to know what he can do and especially what he can't do, since operating a complex device incorrectly leads to disaster.

SHARE        Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Whether it's McCain or Obama, it's a win-win for Republicans Considering the natural hypocrisy of the Republicans, it doesn't matter to them who wins the presidential election. With their ability to distort everything as being good for Republicans, an Obama win can be made into the best thing that ever happened to them, just as a McCain win will be.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 25, 2008
You can't slime the slimy Obama can't throw enough slime at the McCain campaign to make any stick. They're already so slimy that whatever Obama throws will be unnoticeable.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 22, 2008
Really, McCain is NOT a drooling, bumbling idiot. Yet. Note to the Obama campaign: How about applying a little logic to the futile attempts by the McCain campaign to excuse the fact that though McCain is not a drooling, bumbling, catatonic idiot, he's well on his way.

SHARE        Monday, August 18, 2008
The magnificent obtuseness of the Washington pundits. If you want a good dose of obtuseness, self deception, distortion, misstatements of fact and good old Republican spin about the Bush administration, you couldn't do better than to read the Washington Post.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 18, 2008
It's the way McCain gets it exactly wrong that is his virtue for Republicans In spite of McCain getting everything wrong about Iraq, it is his decisiveness in getting it wrong that is so appealing to Republicans.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 15, 2008
The criminal case against Mukasey By his own words Attorney General Michael Mukasey has condemned himself as a criminal.

(43 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 24, 2008
The false ideology that caused our financial failure The title of an article by Lew Rockwell at LewRockwell.com, "The Greatness of the Market in a Crisis," contains the logical contradiction that disproves the title's claim and the premise of the article. The title ignores the glaringly obvious fact that if the market is so great, it wouldn't have created the crisis in the first place.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, July 24, 2008
Do prices really go up or down? You hear all the time that prices are going to change, they're going to go up or down, or that they have already done so. I looked into it. Prices don't change. They don't go up or down. Here's the proof.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The denial of what makes you fat. An article from McClatchy-Tribune News Service about obesity and what causes it says the reasons for weight gain are as varied as life itself.

SHARE        Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Conyers' year of tolerating contempt A year ago, July 12, 2007, John Conyers issued subpoenas for Harriet Miers and Joshus Bolten to appear before his House Judiciary Committee as witnesses. They, contemptuously, have never appeared. Now, a year later, Conyers is tolerating the contempt of Karl Rove for the same failure to appear by considering his "options."

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 14, 2008
The New Yorker is as obtuse as the Republicans The front page New Yorker cartoon revels that the people at the New Yorker are as obtuse as the Republicans. They didn't realize that the Republicans will take the cartoon as a serious, factual portrayal of Obama.

(26 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 12, 2008
McCain says you're a disgrace if you receive Social Security John McCain says that if you pay into Social Security or receive Social Security, you're a disgrace.

SHARE        Friday, July 11, 2008
When Crime is Presented as "Victory" Two newspapers portray George Bush's getting approval from Congress to continue his ongoing criminal enterprise as a "Victory." Even though Congress' approval of Bush's crimes does not prevent them from being crimes, the danger is that people who read these papers will think that when the crimes are presented as victory, they are not crimes.

SHARE        Friday, July 11, 2008
James Baker and Warren Christopher seem to be unaware of the Constitution Even the title of their article, Put War Powers Back Where They Belong, shows their unawareness of the Constitution. The war powers of Congress are still in the Constitution. They have not escaped, leaving Congress powerless. The president, as they imply, has not stolen the war powers and is not hiding them under his desk in the Oval Office.

SHARE        Friday, July 11, 2008
Who will save us from the economists? Simon Jenkins at the Huffington Post points out that economists like to think of their profession as a science when it actually falls into the field of psychology. An article by the economist Ismael Hossein-Zadeh at Counterpunch shows that economists also fail to understand the psychology of economics.

(11 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 5, 2008
Rush Limbaugh confesses he has no confidence in his beliefs Rush Limbaugh says that he will not give up until every American agrees with him. He's known all along that his hard-right, conservative ideology is not founded on the truth, the facts, logic, reason or evidence. His fear is that of all ideologues, that just one dissent containing truth, reason and evidence will expose him and destroy his whole foundationless empire of unreason.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 4, 2008
The interests of justice require that we postpone the 2008 election The interests of justice require that we impeach, remove from office, indict, charge, try, convict and hang George Bush and Dick Cheney for their crimes while they are in office. They must be made to suffer the humiliation of being removed from office and hung, according to law. Six months ain't gonna do it.

SHARE        Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Appeals court introduces the word feared by George Bush The word we've all been waiting for and expecting to be applied to the Bush administration as the bare minimum to use as the basis for making decisions to kill a whole bunch of innocent people has been introduced by a court of justice, the word dreaded, feared and ignored by George Bush: EVIDENCE.

SHARE        Friday, June 27, 2008
Looking, Hoping, Wishing for an Advantage The Republican McCain campaign, using a deniable stalking horse, has let it be known that another terrorist attack before the election would be to McCain's advantage. Since we're always grateful to those who give us an advantage, who will McCain be grateful to should he realize his delusion that another terrorist attack is to his advantage?

(5 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 16, 2008
Will President Obama be impeachable for allowing Bush's impeachable high crimes to continue past January 20? Will the following phrase added to the beginning of articles six and seven of Kucinich's articles of impeachment make President Obama impeachable? The President (Obama) has allowed to continue the fact that (followed by articles six and seven).

SHARE        Thursday, June 12, 2008
Selling only to the super rich How General Motors can lower overhead and make the same amount of profit by building one car a year.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Reciprocating SOFAs, or the logic of Iraqi troops in the US George Bush says that Iraq is a sovereign, free and democratic country, just like the United States. Yet, he will only deal with the newest and one of the smallest countries in the world, The country of The Green Zone, located, of all places, in the middle of Baghdad, Iraq.

(29 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 5, 2008
Are you tired of being called "liberal" by Republicans when they mean "sonofabitch"? Rob Kall published a GOP diatribe here on June 4, where the Republicans say that liberals elected Obama. As Dick Cheney so eloquently put it, "So?" Rob presciently predicts that, "The GOP will be calling him liberal and vilifying his supporters." How come it is that Republicans equate the word "liberal" with the most vile obscenities, but liberals refrain from attaching that connotation to the word, "conservative"?

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Drafting as a way to avoid getting psychopaths like Bush The June 2 article by Dr. Kevin Barrett and Silvia Cattori, Is George Bush A Psychopath? explains a lot more than just the answer to that question. It explains how we have allowed psychopaths to take over our government. The prevention of that will require some very drastic changes.

SHARE        Monday, June 2, 2008
Is Scotty's book another false flag operation? The White House had a month to look over Scotty's book about Bush's transgressions and let it go forward. They saw no threat there, and, saw an opportunity. Scotty's book has created a quite different effect than presumed. An effect so obvious no one has noticed it. It's an effect expressed by Oscar Wilde: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

(15 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 30, 2008
How do you like having your intelligence insulted by Scott McClellan? I'm so goddam mad I could bite a nail in two. Scott McClellan's belated epiphany about the manipulation and distortion of the truth and the outright lies about the reasons for Bush's Iraq war is an insult to the intelligence of those who read and write for OEN. Scotty, in his ignorance of the fact that we knew all the while everything that he has just now figured out, presumes to preach to us about what we alrady knew.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 27, 2008
When the talk of assassination becomes acceptable, can the act of assassination be far behind? Hillary Clinton's remarks about the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in June as a reason to stay in the race until then is a passive reference to the possibility of an assassination eliminating her competition. Liz Trotta's remarks aabout Obama is an active statement that she, literally, would if she could, assassinate Obama. Clinton's remarks are in extremely bad taste. Trotta's are criminally actionable.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 23, 2008
Democrat, don't let the sun set on you in Fort Worth An article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram exposes the unbelievable smugness, bigotry, racism and arrogance of the Republican stranglehold on Tarrant County, Texas.

(4 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Obama's perceived inexperience is his best qualification. Obama isn't any more inexperienced at being president than anyone who has ever been president. Since no one who has been president had ever been president before, Obama's experience at being president is exactly the same as theirs. He's never been president, either.

(5 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 15, 2008
Was the God of the ancients a computer? If you look at the way the people of a few thousand years ago interacted with their God, the similarity to interacting with a computer is inescabable.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 15, 2008
A call for reform where prosecution, not reform, is needed A group of candidates for office have proposed A Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq. The plan proposes, unnecessarily, Restoring our Constitution instead of prosecuting the criminals who have violated it.

SHARE        Monday, May 12, 2008
May this house be safe from tigers I have an engraved sign on my mantle I had made that says, "May this house be safe from tigers." Its message is the operating principle of the political and religious leaders of the world. Three examples of that principle in operation are George Bush and the preachers Hagee and Wright. It works as well for me as it does for them. I've never been bothered by tigers and they've never been bothered by ethics, morals or doubt.

(8 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 6, 2008
If you're reading this, George Bush has reserved a bunk for you in one of his detention camps. George Bush is building detention camps. Their purpose is "to support the rapid development of new programs," without specifying just what those "new programs" might be. But, read on to see if programs Bush already has in place are the ones he's planning on using to put you in one of those camps.

(9 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 2, 2008
The way to hit back even harder Rob Kall, in his article, Time to Hit Back Harder, makes the point that we must do everything possible to refute the right-wing, Republican propaganda, by making the counter argument of the truth. There's a way to hit them even harder, by pointing out the truth about the right-wing Republicans, themselves, instead of the falsehood of their propaganda.

(6 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Textbook descriptions of George Bush reveal psychopathy, and much worse. The research of Dr. Hervey Cleckley and Dr. Robert Hare exploring the personality and character traits of psychopaths, when applied to George Bush, shows that Bush fits exactly the profile they developed for the psychopath. Demographics show that Republicanism is much worse than psychopathy.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 30, 2008
This is outrageous! A Supreme Court judge actively advocating violating the law. We've come to a sorry state of affairs when a Supreme Court judge knows less about the law than us plain, ordinary folks. Scalia's approval of torture, for any reason, is in violation of the Geneva Convention, which the United States is a signatory to and is the law of the land.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 27, 2008
A three in three chance for another Bush At the very heart of the matter and the cause of our country's failure with George Bush and his Iraq war is the fact that he illegally assumed the position of commander in chief and his power to declare war. Both assumptions are unconstitutional. All three candidates are doing exactly the same thing George Bush did, and they're not even president, yet.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 10, 2008
Enough is enough Two articles in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram bring home the point that enough is enough. I agree with Jane Stillwater, I don't want impeachment, I want revenge.

SHARE        Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Cheney, at last, asks for advice In a rare departure from his presumption of omniscience about how to conduct military operations in Iraq, Cheney asks for advice.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 22, 2008
What it takes to be president Leonard Pitts wrote an article in the Miami Herald with the same title I've used for this article. It turns out that all it takes to be president is the ability to read at the 11th grad vocabulary level.

SHARE        Saturday, March 22, 2008
Using jargon to deceive, for fun and profit Two excellent articles in the New York Times about the responsibiity of the guys in the financial markets who ruined their companies bring to light the jargon they used to deceive and to obscure their greed. They used jargon to try to turn a cow patty into a bold brick.

SHARE        Tuesday, March 11, 2008
More Constitutional Contortions. Three items in the news point out more Constitutional contortions by the courts and the Bush administration for the benefit of ideological interpretations. These contortions and misenterpretations were not mentioned in the articles.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 5, 2008
A Dyslogy for Buckley William F. Buckley had even the liberals fooled with his wit, charm and erudition. But, not all of us. Some of us saw through the facade.

SHARE        Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Just one day of mind-boggling headlines Here are some headlines from articles in the news that make you think, "Hey, wait a minute, you've got this thing up-side-down."

SHARE        Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Writ of Mandamus This is the text of a petition for a writ of mandamus directed to George Bush, requiring him to end his war on Iraq. It will be in the mail on 14 Feb 08. It is a legal petition to the court with jurisdiction for a legal writ requiring George Bush to perform his duty as a public servant.

SHARE        Monday, January 28, 2008
It can't happen here? Its happening here right now. The question raised and the points made in William Cormier's article will not get the attention it deserves. It should be read by everyone in the United States. He asks, If Bush is leaving office in less than a year, why are they still intent on destroying our privacy? The question needs an answer.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 26, 2008
Five years too late, Congress remembers the Constitution. Do you remember this headline from March of 2003? Bush Plan for Iraq Would Be a First. No OK From Congress Seen; Constitutional Issues Raised. No? Don't remember that? That's because its dated Friday, January 25, 2008, from the Boston Globe.

(8 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 21, 2008
The origin of the phenomenon of Conservatism/libertarianism. Rob Kall's article, Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism, makes the point that biological organisms live in an interconnected, interdependent world, and, asks if there are any laws of nature or biology we can think of, presumably to account for the inhuman phenomenon of Conservatism/libertarism. There is a law of nature that accounts for this. Its a genetic throwback called deviancy.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 18, 2008
Beware of sheep which come to you in false prophets clothing. An article from the Associated Press shows that those who profess to be Democrats in Congress are actually Republican sheep wearing the false clothing of Democrats, being shepherded by George Bush to where he wants them to go.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 20, 2007
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that the impossible has happened. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is astounded, astonished, shocked, flabbergasted that the impossible has happened. Oh my Gawd, a Democrat has been elected!

SHARE        Sunday, December 16, 2007
Gonzales redux George Bush plucked Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey from the Republican cesspool and flung them, splattering the noxious and noisome effluent of the Republican ideological toilet, into the faces of the people and the Congress of the United States.

SHARE        Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The high cost of Chinese junk. We're paying more for cheap Chinese made junk than we would be paying for more expensive USA made products, if those products were available.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Ben Bernanke's solution for the financial crisis. An article from the Associated Press about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's latest antics gives us some insight into the home-mortgage financial crisis, even though his solution is counter-intuitive.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 25, 2007
The New York Times doesn't learn from it's own editorial. The High Cost of Health Care, an editorial in the New York Times, spells out the solution to the health care problem and then fails to recognize the solution.

SHARE        Thursday, November 22, 2007
We already knew that, Scotty. Question for you, Scotty. How come when Bush and Cheney lied to you, you were the only one who didn't know they were lying? Why did it take you this long to figure that out?

SHARE        Monday, November 19, 2007
Jane Harman's bill provides that we can be investigated for demonstrating in support of the Constitution. An article at Common Dreams by Ralph Shaffer and William Robinson points out the insidious effect of Jane Harman's mouthful of balderdash, the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act." I'm not kidding, that's what its called.

(38 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 16, 2007
Bush is trying to set up OpEdNews as a "terrorist recruiter." An article here on OpEdNews on Nov. 14 by Barbara Peterson warns of how Homeland Security is trying to falsely protray web sites that publish articles questioning the events of 9/11 as terrorist recruiters. Her article didn't get the attention it deserves.

(5 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, November 13, 2007
New definitions for privacy and anonymity coming from the government. In an attempt to do away with our privacy and anonymity a government bureaucrat has decided to redefine what our right to privacy means.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, November 12, 2007
George Bush is the best Republican of all time George Bush is the ultimate example of Republicanism. Just look at what he has accomplished by applying Republican ideology. Some of the information from an article in Vanity Fair by Joseph E. Stiglitz proves it.

SHARE        Thursday, November 8, 2007
Mukasey is Bush's stalking horse. Bush sent in Mukasey as a stalking horse to see just how much he can get away with.

SHARE        Friday, October 26, 2007
The evidence that Bush will attack Iran. There are four items of evidence that make it a mathematical certainty that Bush and Cheney will attack Iran.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 8, 2007
We're dealing with the bloody entrails instead of the bomber. When everything that the Bush/Republicans do is completely, totally outrageous, we're left with nowhere to grab hold of anything more outrageous than anything else. When everything is outrageous is anything outrageous? We neet to give up dealing with the acts and focus on the actor.

SHARE        Saturday, October 6, 2007
Willful ignorance of the obvious. Willful ignorance of the obvious by lawyers who know better and the news media that doesn't report all of the facts frees George Bush from having to answer for his crimes.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, October 1, 2007
Contempt of Congress. John Conyers sent me an email explaining how important it is for the House of Representatives to cite the White House with a contempt of Congress resolution. Conyers is unaware that, even if he could, which is doubtful, passing a contempt resolution has exactly the same effect as doing nothing at all.

SHARE        Friday, September 28, 2007
Due diligence. George Bush's Department of Defense says that the reason that seven months after it was revealed that they have done little or nothing to end the nightmare conditions for wounded veterans of the Iraq war is that they are exercising "due diligence." Had the Pentagon actually exercised due diligence, there would be no dead or wounded veterans.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 2, 2007
The twenty buck solution Just think how different things would be if George Bush had gotten a blowjob. Let's compare mass murder to blowjobs as seen from the viewpoint of the Republicans and the viewpoint of the rest of us.

SHARE        Thursday, August 30, 2007
The unmasking of Despicable Dick Thanks to David Swanson in an article here on OpEdNews, we now know another thing that Despicable Dick is not.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 27, 2007
The worst is yet to come. George Bush, when given a choice, has an innate ability to make the worst possible choice. His choice of Ashcroft was bad, Gonzales was worse, but we haven't seen the worst, yet.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 24, 2007
Creeping Bushism. It's ironic that we could actually have another Judgment at Nuremberg with the roles reversed. This time, it would be the Germans sitting in judgment on the United States judges and lawyers who are aiding and abetting creeping Bushism.

SHARE        Friday, August 24, 2007
And Republicans roamed the earth in those days. The Old Testament gives a graphic description of the origins of Republican spin with a story about one of George Bush's ancestors, Uncle Josh Bush, who lived about 3200 years ago.

SHARE        Saturday, August 18, 2007
George Will's latest recto-cranial inversion George Will's economic pronouncements in his July 17 Washington Post article, "Committing capitalism," could have only come from using his head as a proctoscope.

(9 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Will it be Al Gore or a Republican? Should Al Gore be our next President, or is it likely to be a Republican? The answer to the first is: no. The answer to the second is: yes.

SHARE        Wednesday, August 8, 2007
If George Bush had to get a warrant, would it make any difference? George Bush got permission from Congress to listen in on our conversations without a warrant. He can listen to exactly the same conversations with a warrant. So, what's the difference? Just what protection does a warrant provide us? As it turns out by reading the Fourth Amendment, none at all.

SHARE        Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Exploiting ignorance for fun and profit. There's a great hue and cry that the Wall Street Journal will be perverted to reflect Rupert Murdoch's brand of slimy, sleazy, right-wing ideology. Nothing will change. The WSJ is already a perverted, slimy, sleazy, right-wing spin machine, always has been. Murdoch's ideology isn't focused on the joys of being right-wing; it's focused on making money by exploiting ignorance for profit. The same as the Wall Street Journal.

SHARE        Friday, August 3, 2007
Hypocrisy, thy name is Bush George Bush has set the all time, world record, standard for hypocrisy. While being adamantly opposed to "government-run health care," he at the same time benefits by using the very same government-run health care for himself that he says he so despises and wants to prevent us from having.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 2, 2007
Why is Nancy Pelosi afraid to take on George Bush? There's something going on with Nancy Pelosi. Her statements defy logic. They just don't make any sense. She knows full well that ending the Iraq war and passing legislation are exercises in futility as long as George Bush is president.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, July 27, 2007
From Nazism to Neo-cons to Bushism Nazism has not only survived but has flourished in the Neo-con think tanks. Brought directly to the United States from the glory days of Nazism in Germany by a student of the Nazi philosophers. A quite revolution has taken place, encouraged by the media. Bushism/Nazism has taken hold of our government and is gaining strength with the defiant, mindless support of Bush by about one-fourth of the population.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 22, 2007
Will Hillary be left standing naked in the street? By asking the Pentagon what plans they have for the eventual withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Senator Clinton, who oversees the Pentagon and it's budget, is in violation of George Bush's executive order prohibiting criticism of his Iraq disaster.

SHARE        Monday, July 2, 2007
Entities and privilege. By Cheney bringing attention to his office as an entity and Bush bringing attention to non-existent "executive privilege' they also bring attention to the most powerful entity in the United States that they prefer to ignore and treat as if it doesn't exist.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 29, 2007
The truth is the toughest talk. We need more tough talking speakers on the left. Our toughest talk is telling nothing but the truth. The truth about Bush and his administration is so appallingly outrageous that we're left with nowhere else to turn for anything more outrageous. There is nothing more outrageous than the truth about the Bush administration. Absolutely nothing.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, June 28, 2007
Honest, I couldn't have made this up if I'd tried. Professor Andrew J. Bacevich has the solution to Bush's Operation Iraqi F--kup. It's Operation Iraqi F--kup ll.

SHARE        Monday, June 25, 2007
The fictional Judge Scalia Judge Scalia confirms what we've always known. Republican ideology is based on hard and fast rules that are based on fiction.

SHARE        Friday, June 22, 2007
Here's just one example of what's gone wrong with our country. Richard Cohen, in his column in the Washington Post, panders to the ignorant, distorts the truth, dissembles, misstates the facts and states outright lies to support and uphold the Republican agenda.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 22, 2007
The twelve powers of a President. Our current excuse for a President and all those running for his job have no idea of what a President is, due to their lack of knowledge about the constitutional limit to the President's power.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 4, 2007
Has anyone noticed that we only get to use half of our vote? When we go to the polls to vote, we are only allowed to use half of our vote. We're limited to only selecting a candidate, we can't use our vote to reject one.

(12 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 3, 2007
Republicans aren't the only reason we have the inexplicable phenomenon of the George Bush presidency. There are reasons other than Republicans for why George Bush is the all-time, worst and most hated President in US history. They are ennui, boredom, lack of interest.

(5 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 1, 2007
Do we really have a democracy? From looking at the evidence, we no longer have a democracy... I will not allow a Republican in my presence. When confronted with lying, spinning Republicans who support Bush's crimes, I naturally become livid with rage and go into a bug-eyed, purple-faced, spit-spattering, screaming fit, pounding on the table and yelling and hollering until they're out of sight.

SHARE        Friday, June 1, 2007
What we've got here is a turtle on a stump. There's a saying that when you find a turtle on a stump, you can pretty will figure that he didn't get there by himself. The Democratic congress is the turtle on the stump.

SHARE        Monday, May 21, 2007
The Washington Post Is at It Again The Washington Post ignores the Constitution, misstates the facts and distorts the truth with classic loyal Bushie tactics.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 19, 2007
Congress didn't get Gonzales' message. Congress failed to understand the importance of the message that Gonzales sent.

SHARE        Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Imus and Bush have the same problem; they didn't consider what comes with doing what you can do. Don Imus and George Bush were perfectly within their rights to say what they want and fire who they please. But, there's more to doing what you can than just the doing of it.

SHARE        Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Our government employees are not doing what they were hired to do. Some instances of government employees who have forgotten who they work for and what their job is.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 9, 2007
According to Iraqi law, George Bush is a murderer. There's a law against Bush's invasion of Iraq that has been overlooked. The most important one.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 9, 2007
The problem in Iraq is the illegal immigrants. Iraq has about 150,000 illegal immigrants who've been living there for over four years.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 9, 2007
What if Bush had to fight a real war? We need to think about what would happen if the United States had to go to war against a fully equipped, competently led military force.

SHARE        Tuesday, May 8, 2007
The benchmarks in Iraq have been there all along. George Bush has no idea that a benchmark is what you must find before you start the job.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Pre-literate President. George Bush has provided a missing term to the language.

SHARE        Tuesday, May 1, 2007
It's surprising what you learn when you read these things. Tuns out that George Bush was not given authority to attack Iraq and that the US military does not belong to Bush.

(16 comments) SHARE        Sunday, April 29, 2007
Veto Bush's Veto The Democrats in Congress have an opportunity to turn the tables on George Bush and veto his veto.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 20, 2007
The Gonzales Hearing as Monty Python Farce The lack of understanding of Gonzales by the committee members is matched by Gonzales' lack of understanding of why he's being questioned.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 6, 2007
We don't want to hear it, Mr. Dowd Matthew Dowd is feeling sorry for himself. He's just now come to realize that George Bush is not all he's cracked up to be. Well, we don't want to hear it.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 25, 2007
Placing George Bush on the ten worst presidents list is a mistake Saying that George Bush is the number one worst president, ever, gives him way too much credit. It implies that he is, somehow, presidential, which he has demonstrated he is not. It elevates him to a category he does not deserve by comparing him to others who actually were presidents.

SHARE        Friday, February 9, 2007
Two year, billion dollar campaign and the McCarthyistic bind. The benefit for us of the candidates exposing themselves for two years.

SHARE        Wednesday, February 7, 2007
What Hillary didn't know, and still doesn't How come Hillary didn't know what we knew all along?

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 4, 2007
What we voted for, what we got The Democrats are too obtuse to understand what we elected them to do, so let's go to law.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, January 29, 2007
So, you support our troops? Taking a look at what "Support our Troops" has done.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Removal of the President from Office There's another way to remove George Bush from office.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 20, 2007
It means what it doesn't say Alberto Gonzales' lack of understanding of the meaning of the constitution.

SHARE        Monday, January 15, 2007
Analogies of the inevitable On being against the inevitable instead of handling it.

SHARE        Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Democracy in America Bringing democracy to America with representative government.

SHARE        Monday, January 8, 2007
With or without? Laying out the options for us in Iraq

SHARE        Friday, January 5, 2007
Democracy in Iraq George Bush's statements about Iraq contain the obvious solution to Iraq.