Month: June 2012

Now that she’s retiring, Olympia Snowe suddenly realizes that her Republican colleagues are behaving like two year-olds? Snowe is now looking at ways that Senate procedure could be reformed to help alleviate partisan...

. UN report on Rwanda fuelling Congo conflict ‘blocked by US’ (Guardian) June 20, 2012 – Claims that Rwanda’s military has been aiding a mutiny in eastern Congo led by the renegade general Bosco Ntaganda...

To understand the last 40 years, and how we got to the place we are now is hard to understand on the macro level for many people. That’s why a simplified lie – give more to the rich and all will benefit — has...

Loyal readers will know that I’ve been calling Marco Rubio a crook ever since he announced himself as a candidate for the Senate. He’s a thief who stole quite a bit of money from the Florida GOP, which is why I...

Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman have a long piece in Politico about why this presidential campaign seems so lame. I have a simple answer for that. Our politics have been broken by a combination of Republican strategy and...