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A Demagogue Inside Your Head
Rather than being a rational and pragmatic leader, Obama cowered to the reactionary elements of blind political divisiveness and further marginalized his own unique history to use Mrs. Sherrod's speech -- her whole speech -- and personal story as a "teachable moment."

Turning Tragedy Into Treasure
Ebenezer Balls, my beloved grandfather and mentor, made millions during the Great Depression by ignoring the suffering around him and keeping his eye keenly on the ball. He would often say that “the grave misfortune of one man results in the deal of a lifetime for another!”

What hath Glenn Beck Wrought? Naught but Rot.
". . .There is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high...

Didja Hear The One About The Liberal Who Walks Into A Gun Range?

"So, did ya hear the one about the liberal who walks into to the shooting range?" Sounds like the beginning of every right wing nutjob's favorite joke, doesn't it? And you can just imagine the horrible punchlines to follow, right? Which is why I went incognito to a local rifle range today!

I know, I know, you're thinking, "What's a nice liberal like you doing in a place like that???" I was as surprised as you are. It started out innocently enough, joking that my stance on gun control ...

Islamophobia and an American Heathen
My new post, Islamophobia and an American Heathen, is up at Pagan + Politics. You can also find a recent post on this subject by me at PoliticusUSA, here

One Minute they are Bonnie and Clyde, the Next She is his "Innocent Victim" and he is her "Big, Bad Tormentor": The Jennifer Hyatte Story

I was watching "Snapped" on Oxygen earlier today, and saw the story of Jennifer Hyatte. And with every moment I watched, I became more and more angry. Because typical of the media, they portrayed Jennifer Hyatte to be the innocent (white)victim of a big, bad (Black) convict, instead of as the murderer she truly is.

Jennifer Hyatte worked as a nurse at a Tennessee prison when she met the man who was to become her husband. He was a prisoner who was ass...

Breaking: Governor Jan Brewer Is Seeing Headless Bodies That Aren’t There
Governor Jan Brewer, who helped push the toughest immigration law in America through which enables and legalizes discrimination and profiling in Arizona was asked by reporters to clear up a blatant lie which greatly effects the state she is supposed to serve. In this interview at a local Fox station, Governor Brewer seems to be...

Iraq War Redux: Goodbye “Iraqi Freedom”, Hello “New Dawn”
Earlier this week, President Obama declared, in his oval office address to the nation, that the US combat operations in Iraq were officially over. This is obviously an effort from the President to convince Americans, right before the November elections, that he has fulfilled one of his key 2008 campaign promises: To end the Iraq...

Playing The Inside Game
At the conference we attended this June in Washington, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) showed up with a rubber chicken. He used it to lampoon the Republican “chickens for checkups” healthcare plan. “I love props,” he said. I have a chicken-related p...

No Surprise At President Obama’s Guantanamo Trial Chaos
Surprise is the last thing that anyone ought to feel on hearing the news that the Obama administration “has shelved the planned prosecution,” in a trial by Military Commission, “of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen,” as the Washington Post reported on Thursday, or that senior officials are “alarmed” by negative responses to the trial by Military Commission of Omar Khadr, as the New York Times reported last Friday.