Mark Evison, a Lieutenant in the British Army, died in May of this year in Afghanistan from a bullet wound to the shoulder. He commanded his men to safety before losing so much blood that he fell unconscious.

Unfortunately, he never woke up.

The reason I am writing about...

As money has slowly but surely taken over the political process in America, it is no longer possible for a candidate to achieve mainstream recognition unless they have several powerful industries behind them. The banks, oil, defense and insurance industry have ensured mainstream candidates never threaten their bottom line. As...

According to Tech Crunch, Internet giant Yahoo tripled its profits this quarter, boosting its income by $130 million.

As a share holder, you'd be pretty pleased, and as part of management, the picture is decidedly better than it was last year when its share price plummeted after...

It is always good fun when beltway hacks attack each other, although at the higher end of the spectrum, the arguments are a little harder to decipher. When you boil it down though, debate generally revolves around the following topics: Is America the best country ever, or is it just...

Rupert Murdoch is a smart man. In the U.K, Murdoch aligns his newspapers with the popular political party and helps them enact their policies by giving them favorable coverage. For the past 12 years, he supported the Labour Party. Now they are out of favor, Murdoch switched seamlessly...

Things do not look rosy for Gordon Brown in the U.K. Having inherited the mother of all messes from his predecessor (which he admittedly helped to create), Brown never really had a chance to begin with. The Tories look set to win the next election, and Labour really...

The revelation that Michael Jackson's death was ruled a homicide threatened to derail media attention on the vitally important health care debate. One could almost hear the cogs begin to turn at CNN/Fox/MSNBC as they geared up for a media love fest that would have them pour millions of dollars...

It has become increasingly clear that the president and the Democratic Party have done a poor job of articulating why we need a public option in the next health care bill. The Republicans and centrist Democrats have successfully managed to dictate the terms of debate, casting the push for a...

The gang of corporate organized health care protesters, senior citizens opposed to extending medicare, and Right Wing loud mouths dedicated to crushing meaningful health care reform have finally gone too far.

Barack Obama has been compared to Adolf Hitler, accused of plotting to bring eugenics to America, wanting to...

After publishing a piece on the absolute idiocy of the Obama Birther movement and its potential to turn nasty, I've been inundated with literally hundreds of emails decrying my comparison of the Birthers to the 9/11 Truthers.

The offending paragraph:

The 9/11 truth movement was enormously helpful to...

The following video came from a Town Hall meeting with Mike Castle (R-DE). A woman stands up, barely able to control her emotions, and furiously demands Barack Obama prove he is a United States citizen:

It's...

While I'm fairly sure whole scale fraud occurred in the recent Iranian elections, the level of coverage and scrutiny of the Ahmadinejad regime has been somewhat bewildering. I touched on this in a previous article, but I think it is worth exploring some more.

The American media...

Poor Pat Buchanan. A failed political career born out of a platform that only appeals to other grumpy white men, Buchanan is stuck in an endless circle of self induced rage and irrational fear....

Abortion is a topic I rarely discuss, mostly because I have no idea where I really stand on the issue. I personally find the notion of destroying unborn fetuses very troubling, particularly in the later stages of development. I'm also pro-choice, because the issues surrounding pregnancy are so complex that...

By Ben Cohen

I've always been a fan of British Zoologist Matt Ridley, and have read several of his fascinating books (The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature is particularly good). But outside of scientific issues, Ridley is about as clued up...

A few months back, I wrote a letter to 'The Money Honey' Maria Bartiromo trying to explain some basic economic principles she seemed to have missed in her 16 year career as a business journalist. Bartiromo had just interviewed Barack Obama, grilling him on his plans to increase...

Watching the Republican Party attempt to assert power it doesn't have over the past few days has been bewildering and downright painful to watch. The opposition party did everything in its power to derail Obama's stimulus package, acting as if they were still running the show. The consequences of this...

With the financial meltdown in full swing, western governments are swinging into action to revive their economies with massive stimulus bills and spending programs. Financial institutions too big to fail are receiving bucket loads of cash, while a multitude of industries wait for their piece of the pie. Obama is...

William Kristol's last piece for the New York Times "Will Obama Save Liberalism" really explores new depths of delusion, a feat only Kristol himself could accomplish (although his recent assertion that 'Democrats are now the party of heredity' came close). It is so silly, I felt obliged...