Month: March 2009

     Not since the early sixties has America so epitomized the notion of cool in the world as we do today. What began as a fist bump on the primary trail has reached a national shout-out before both chambers of...

I was inspired by BooMan’s post re Iran Contra to revisit this speech, one of my early forays into Real History. Robert Parry spoke at an event in Los Angeles sponsored by FAIR. Parry, currently the proprietor of...

The sands of time have faded my memory of the Iran-Contra affair, but I do distinctly remember being impressed at the age of seventeen/eighteen that the right-wing was willing to go beyond excusing the illegal behavior of Oliver...

One point three million jobs lost in the first 2 months of 2009, but Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats are all agitated about increasing taxes on rich people. Go figure.

The flu has assaulted our household. So far, I’ve been holding out against the germ-spreaders, but I’m beginning to come down with it now. Of course, I’d gladly get the flu if it would make James Carville, Paul...