Month: July 2009

. Obama family visits slavery port in Ghana WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says slavery is a terrible part of the United States’ history and should be taught in a way that connects such cruelties of the past to...

Frank Rich is a gifted writer, and I agree with the general gist of his column on Palinism. But the headline is all wrong. Palin didn’t break the Republican Party. It’s pretty plain that something pathological has...

The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal. It seems no matter which political party in America holds the majority, a Washington/Wall Street corporate centric axis dominates policy making....

John Avlon reports on the contentious vote to elect a new chairperson of the Young Republicans. After eight hours of maneuvering, 38-year old Audra Shay prevailed, despite a record of making and tolerating racist comments. Avlon...

The problem, Scott, is that Michael Hayden (who is not a former DNI, by the way) has a much greater conflict of interest than Eric Lichtblau and James Risen. Michael Hayden was the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA)...