Month: May 2011

Netanyahu speech to AIPACWhenever you want to understand happenings in Israel-Palestine, you turn to the Middle East expert Juan Cole, as in this interpretation of Netanyahu recent speech to the Congress, entitled, What lies...

Yesterday, I was watching MSNBC when they cut to a local Oklahoma station that was monitoring a massive tornado (as it turned out, there were several) that was cutting a swath of destruction through the Sooner state. The anchor...

Just when you think they can’t go any lower … It may be hard to believe but some far right conspiracy theorists are allegeding that the Tucson Massacre where Gabrielle Giffords was shot at point blank range and...

At some point, but probably not this week, Harry Reid is going to force the Senate Republicans to vote on Paul Ryan’s budget plan. In my parlance, Majority Leader Reid will offer every Republican senator the opportunity to...

To twist BooMan’s analogy in the prior post, I decided to make a simple comparison of what the average Medicare financial benefits received in 2010 by Medicare recipients are vs. what they would have been if Paul...