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Rick Perry and the 5 Worst Political Gaffes

Rick Perry and the 5 Worst Political Gaffes

Gaffes are certainly nothing new to politics, and they have sunk many a campaign before.  Rick Perry now joins the stage with the worst in a long list of political gaffes, featuring many would-be candidates among [...]

The Main Weakness of Each Republican Candidate for President

The Main Weakness of Each Republican Candidate for President

As the Republican candidates for President of the U.S. hold yet another debate (which are now well into the teens), the voting public is churning through yet another frontrunner.  So, this seemed like a good time to [...]

Five Goals for the Occupy Wall Street Protests

Five Goals for the Occupy Wall Street Protests

As the Occupy Wall Street protests have grown, so too has the media response grown, from at first ignoring the protests, to exploiting them for their 15 minutes of fame, to recognizing that there are some [...]

Justice Clarence Thomas and The New Yorker’s Folly

Justice Clarence Thomas and The New Yorker’s Folly

In this month’s New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin recasts Justice Clarence Thomas, a man that many perceive to be an intellectual marionette of the far right wing, as in truth an intellectual agent of change on the [...]

Are Obama, Democrats Tougher on Terror?

Are Obama, Democrats Tougher on Terror?

The successful  military operation against Osama bin Laden on May 1 has had a profound effect on the Presidency of Barack Obama, transforming  a man that many had portrayed as an effete intellectual into a “bad-ass [...]

Osama bin Laden is Dead – President Obama Offers Redemption for 9/11

Osama bin Laden is Dead – President Obama Offers Redemption for 9/11

This September we will mark the 10th Anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, and it will be the first 9/11 this country has celebrated during which Osama bin Laden is dead.  It [...]

The Budget Battle, Abortion and Planned Parenthood

The Budget Battle, Abortion and Planned Parenthood

“It is my view that no American woman should be denied access to family planning assistance because of her economic condition. I believe, therefore that we should establish as a national goal the provision of adequate [...]

The Maine Mural and the Destruction of Art: Why Governor LePage Must Be Stopped

The Maine Mural and the Destruction of Art: Why Governor LePage Must Be Stopped

Organized labor sure has had its hands full lately, and now laborers are facing a new, rather bizarre battle with Maine’s Governor Paul LePage, who has removed a 36-foot mural depicting the history of labor from [...]

The Sham Trial of Julian Assange

The Sham Trial of Julian Assange

For over half a year now, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been the subject of a bizarre and opaque judicial process seeking to extradite him from the United Kingdom to Sweden in connection with alleged sexual [...]