Month: March 2011

Grover Norquist is Now a Centrist

We’ve reached a point in Republican politics in this country where Grover “Drown the Federal Government in a bathtub” Norquist is representing the moderate, Establishment-wing of the party. Norquist supports...

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Just Shoot Me

I hope the Democrats have a Plan B because relying on Facebook and Twitter to win elections is a strategy for suckers. We are not a closed society. Social media is valuable, but it doesn’t have the same impact here as it...

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Can Anne-Marie Slaughter Get Serious?

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She served as chair of Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s Advisory Committee on Democracy...

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Fundies see Japan as Sign of End Times

Most people are distraught and in anguish over the deaths of thousands of Japanese and the threat of multiple nuclear power plant meltdowns in the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. And then there are...

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