This weekend " tens of thousands " of people gathered in the nation's capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the civ...

Today's manufactured outrage of the day, brought to you by the New York Post : Anthony Weiner has come under intense fire from Jewi...

That Google graphic is really all you need if you want to learn who won the debate last night. Snap polling is unreliable, but the consensu...

Martin Luther King was a Republican. This statement was all the rage a year ago, when it was extremely important to remember that Tea Partie...

Imagine a group of self-proclaimed "Shakespeare experts" who claim to know everything that's not in the play The Tempest . Th...

Over the years, conservatism has undergone a sort of metamorphosis. And it's a strange metamorphosis because, in true conservative fashi...

One of these years, I'm going to write a end-of-the-year post that doesn't include the words "good riddance." Unfortunatel...

If you give the rich tax cuts, they'll create jobs. That's what we keep hearing. But, like all political and media debates these day...

Barack Obama can't do anything right. It's simply not possible. There are times when the negativity toward the President has some va...

It's official; teabaggers don't really get it. When it comes to financing, they're as clueless as they are about economics. A mo...

Cap-and-trade is the purest form of socialism. It would be a tremendous destructive force on our market and a hidden tax that would destroy ...

If you've talked to anyone who buys into rightwing talk radio, you've heard the argument; the United States is a republic, not a dem...

The problem with wedge-issue politics is that even when the wedge manages to divide Americans, it doesn't always manage to divide the el...

It seems lately that everything's going to hell. We've got a gusher of oil spilling out into the Gulf of Mexico, We've got majo...

Greg Sargent calls it one of the "Great moments in Fox News." Others call it a straw man. FOX ran the headline " White House...

Let's try a little fun with math; when is 33% more than 33%? At first glance, that may seem to be a dumb question -- they're obviou...

When the USSR was still up and kicking, teachers were required to edit history books. They'd cut out or paste over pages, replacing them...

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures, have become clearer and str...

A majority taken collectively is only an individual, whose opinions, and frequently whose interests, are opposed to those of another individ...