About supercommittee hysteria . . . I wonder how that happened . . . DUH . . . It’s commonplace now, but still astonishing, the sense of panic consistently created by our news outlets,...
Now don’t get your underpants in a bunch, I know pepper spray is a serious topic, open for deep deep discussion. After the flurry of pepper spray incidents lately – especially the one at...
From last night’s GOP presidential primary debate, sponsored by CNN, the Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute (both, all righwing, all the time): ED MEESE [ed., a fine rightwing specimen from the Nixon...
“It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are truly stupid. Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors,...
Tonight, The Hill reports that the new GOP deficit reduction plan presented to the Democratic Supercommittee members is as popular as a hippie at a square dance, or less. To say that Democrats were...
I’m on record – before tonight’s Bachmann news – as a Bachmann denier. I simply did not believe she existed. No one so utterly Congressloony could co-exist with gravity, the human nervous system, or...
At Tuesday night’s GOP debate, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo – obliquely – asked Herman Cain about his character given the sexual harassment claims against him. “I value my character and my integrity more than anything...
At the GOP debate on Tuesday night, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo asked Herman Cain about the well-known sexual harassment claims swirling around his campaign and character like a river around a boulder. Like that boulder,...
On Tuesday this week, Herman Cain held a press conference featuring Herman Cain. Herman Cain scheduled the event to explain Herman Cain’s take on the allegations continually surfacing about Herman Cain’s past sexual harassment of...
Livestreaming through Livestream.com of Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power, featuring Michael Moore; Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine); William Greider (Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall...
