Month: June 2006

The story about 21-year-old Suzanne Swift, the female soldier who was arrested in Eugene, Oregon for refusing to return to Iraq, is now getting a lot of attention. On Monday, Suzanne’s mother, Sara Rich, told OR Public...

Today was the announcement of our nation’s newest poet laureate, Donald Hall, 77, who has quite a polished New England pedigree. Born in New Haven, CT, schooled at Phillips Exeter, BA from Harvard, Litt.D from Bates and...

So many of the weepers and handwringers plaintively cry out that their American idol George W. Bush is simply a target of those suffering from that vile medical condition known as Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). These paid-up...

How can I make such a statement when our soldiers are still in Iraq and being killed daily? It is a matter of framing that Thom Hartmann brought to my attention on Monday night when he guest-hosted the Majority Report. By most...

In a 4-minute video, a Marine strums his guitar while singing a song about killing members of an Iraqi family. The Marine says he is sorry, that it was just a joke and not related to the allegations of the Marine massacre of 24...