Month: January 2009

The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal. Words matter. Labels matter. Although it has become vogue to say, “Voters are tired of labels” they remain powerful. How we define the...

Glenn Greenwald has been hammering on the odd spectacle of our political elite’s unanimous refusal to offer even the faintest criticism of Israel no matter what they do and how strongly the rest of the world condemns it....

Glenn Greenwald has been hammering on the odd spectacle of our political elite’s unanimous refusal to offer even the faintest criticism of Israel no matter what they do and how strongly the rest of the world condemns it....

Do you ever get the feeling that the more complicated an issue or task is, the more likely it is that most people will get frustrated and advocate blowing the whole thing up?

This never would have happened if it weren’t for all those pesky environmental regulations. The Environmental Protection Agency has released data showing levels of arsenic more than 100 times safe levels in the water after...