Month: January 2009

I live currently in an area of the country (WV/MD/PA/VA intersection) which is remarkably lower-blue-class, but it was not always a poverty zone. Up until a decade or so ago it was a manufacturing area with a farming framework....

There is no global warming. It’s a hoax. Climate change? A scam. And a buncha dead trees mean nothing, I tell you — Nothing! The majestic old-growth forests of western North America, greening patches of the landscape...

It’s no more dangerous than Philadelphia. RAMADI, Iraq — In rugged western Iraq, once the bastion of the insurgency against the American occupation and now a freewheeling arena of electoral politics steeped in...

John Rosenthal

Why do so many right wingers have fantasies of a civil war and/or the assassination of Barack Obama? Some examples: The Return of Scipio: Here is a reminder for those who need reminding. The red areas voted for McCain—or rather,...