Month: July 2011

Who said this: We haven’t gone nuts — but the “conversation of democracy” has become so deeply dysfunctional that our ability to make intelligent collective decisions has been seriously impaired....

Speaker Boehner is hilariously incompetent. He’s trying to round up votes from his raucous caucus and he’s screwing everything up. First he got kneecapped by the Club for Growth and the National Taxpayers Union. Then...

The debate around clerical child sex abuse continues to reverberate around the Irish polity with the Vatican calling for a more “objective” debate and withdrawing its ambassador to Ireland for...

My Representative in Congress is a Freshman Republican. This is the letter I faxed to her just now. * * * Rep. Name Here Fax: (Fax No. Here) Dear Representative ______________: I live in your district and I’m writing to ask you...

Pew Research finds that 68% of the people support a compromise on the debt ceiling even if they don’t agree with the deal, while only 23% support standing on principle even if it results in default. My question is this....