Author: Forgiven

A number of people have taken up the sisters’ cause, including Ben Jealous, the president of the N.A.A.C.P., who is trying to help secure a pardon from Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi. “It makes you sick to think...

“We shouldn’t demonize wealth the way this administration has,” he said. “How many of you look at your balance sheets and say, `You know what? This profit thing is overrated?'” – Michael...

In 1971 Lewis F. Powell  Jr. urged conservatives to retake command of public discourse by “financing think tanks, reshaping mass media and seeking influence in universities and the judiciary.” In the coming...

Rove pointed to unresolved questions about O’Donnell’s financial practices, potentially dubious campaign tactics, and generally “nutty things” she’d been saying. Former Bush Senior Adviser Staff...

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. – James A. Baldwin There has been talk recently about the Dems needing to imitate the wing-nuts and...