Month: September 2011

Obama says that he wants to raise taxes on the rich, on the top two or three percent income earners, on Big Oil, on executive jets, on capital gains. In other words, not on you. Not on more than 90% of Americans. Republicans...

Is David Brooks right? Has Obama rejected Obamaism? The irony is that Brooks uses today’s column to repeatedly flagellate himself as a ‘sap’ who is gullible enough to believe in the president’s rhetoric...

Really Andrew Breitbart? This is a legitimate topc for political discussion? Implied threats of violence against liberals and Democrats? And to suggest that the US military, sworn to defend this country, “has his...

It’s sad that forty-six years after the Voting Rights Act, Texas still can’t draw a congressional district map that doesn’t discriminate against minorities.

. Palestinian anger at U.S. over Israel talks fuels crisis bid for statehood recognition at UN (Guardian) – Palestinian negotiators have accused Washington of triggering a diplomatic crisis which threatens to wreck the...