Author: Steven D

Ah, Texas, land of opportunity, for good or ill: A US federal judge sentenced a Texas couple Friday for forcing a widowed Nigerian mother of six to serve in domestic servitude, holding her as a slave for over eight...

I know we’ve become inured to expressions of racism over the last decade. If we looked we could find examples of such behavior every day in the news. Indeed, many conservative bloggers and TV and radio...

You may say you’re a Christian, and you may get shiny little presents from your new BFF, Sarah the Barracuda, and you may have the Tea Bagger crowd in your corner, but to those good old boys in South Carolina you’ll...

This says it all: A cap was placed atop the blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well Thursday night, but oil was still spewing into the Gulf waters on Friday morning. The containment cap was placed over the main pipe on the leaking...

Does anyone believe that last line from our pal Tony? “We will make this right.” Right as oily beaches, dead zones, ruined economies. No wonder Big Oil has gone into full bore lobbying mode to keep the regulators at...