Bill Maher, Paul Begala, John Ridley, and Cornel West Blog on HuffPost
Islamists Still Hate Cartoons
You don't get to make some Swedish cartoonist follow your backward religious code. That's how we roll here in the West. With freedom of expression. And lots of offensive cartoons. Read Post
Democrats Should Attack Bush, Not MoveOn
Before Democrats fall all over themselves to agree with Bush, let's look at the real record of his cowardice when it comes to speaking out against attacks on military heroes. Read Post
Black Voter Snub: Everyday People Take Center Stage
The actions of everyday people to bring pressure to bear on the Republican party to be accountable to American citizens of color is now center stage. Read Post
Fear of a Black Debate
This time the Republicans have got me beat. I can think of no good, new, or clever way to dissect what is, frankly, a dumb move on the part of their top tier candidates. Read Post
General Petraeus, Take Off the Rose-Colored Glasses
We are sending our troops into a country where they're not wanted, into the middle of a civil war, into the middle of the mother of all foreign policy mistakes, with no end in sight. Read Post
The Death of Conservatism, Part 2
What do you get when 55 rich white landowners gather to form a more perfect union, establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility? Read Post
24-Hour Republican Party People
Republicans sex scandals are getting to be like Iraqi car bombings. By the time you hear about one, there's been another. Read Post
John Boehner's "Small Price"
No American should ever for even a moment think the cost of war is small. A single life is a large price to pay for any endeavor. Where is Rep. Boehner's apology? Read Post
The Shock Doctrine
The Republican Party now seems to work like a gang, in which the most valued qualities in members are loyalty to the gang and the leader, obedience to authority, and violence toward outsiders. Read Post
Is Petraeus' Testimony Relevant to the Debate on Iraq?
The "surge" is not a strategy, it is a tactic. And the strategy has failed because we are not safer. Read Post
Denying the Truth: Petraeus, Iraq, and Our Pontius Pilate Press
Like Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility, too many in the Washington press corps want to pretend they are leaving the question of "what is truth" to their readers -- refusing to admit that there is even such a thing as truth. Read Post
Modern Trench Warfare
In the First World War, the politicians and monarchs were mostly content to "let it bleed" rather than be innovate enough to bring the war to a military or diplomatic end. We are once again in trench warfare. Read Post
Two Soldiers Who Wrote NYT Op-Ed Die in Iraq
This news was especially tough for me to swallow. I looked forward to one day meeting these brave, articulate and thoughtful soldier-statesmen -- or seeing them run for office. Read Post
My Two for One Candidacy of Change and Experience
I am the one candidate in this race with a straightforward plan to end this war and the international experience to make it happen. Read Post
Pack Up the Moon and Dismantle the Sun
I liked the MoveOn ad, because the people who loudly decried it as an outrage are as blind as moles to the true outrage of what it means to be an American now. Read Post
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| September 13, 2007 01:30 AM