Who is Sarah Ball and why is she saying awful things about Emo Phillips? And, why is she not saying awful things about Robin Williams? I.E., if she is going to bash those twelve, she ought to also be brave enough, and have the critical eye required, to take...

The British company GW Pharmaceutical is asking for European approval of Savitex, their "cannabinoid medication," a derivative form of marijuana that enables symptom relief for various medical conditions -- without incurring any "unacceptable side effects," i.e., getting high. Savitex, which comes in the form of a spray, has been available...

Keith Olbermann long ago raised vamping to a high art. Originally, a steadfast, bold, refreshing and groundbreaking progressive voice for MSNBC, his Countdown show has devolved into a display of self-aggrandizing name calling featuring he, Rush, Bill (Billo'), and Sean, leaving us with, aside from that, a vacant hour of...

This week, President Obama hits the road to sell a stimulus bill that he has already sold out.

Meanwhile, heroic Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenbeger and his crew are in New York receiving the key to the city for safely landing US Airways Flight 1549 in the middle of the Hudson...

The Wailing Wall of Bush. Except instead of pushing notes of prayer into the crevices, you draw out limitless notes of havoc.

Of all the lines in George Bush's farewell address, I thought the most shocking was "like all who have held this office before me."...

At some point during tonight's presidential debate in Nashville, an audience member will ask Barack Obama some sort of question concerning his "character." Obama's answer should include the following:

Well, yes, I've even heard I've been "palling around with terrorists." But you know, sometimes in political campaigns people are...

Lots of reasons to be in a funk on Iraq.

Funk: Even on days when the Dow doesn't drop 500 points, the war moves farther and farther off the front page until the only place you'll find the word "Baghdad" is in a review of a book by Bob Woodward...

Barack Obama brought us a wonderful speech. Obama's speech produced "a bump" that polls alone couldn't possibly measure. I got choked up and a jump in my diaphragm that is, for me, a completely unfamiliar physical response to any event - except the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. and...

I keep hearing that Democratic senators have to hold back on blasting John McCain because "they have to work with him." I even hear it from some Democratic nattering-nabobs. What? Let John McCain worry about that. Which is preferable? Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama -- among others -- walk...

Small details, exact costs, specifics, particulars - all are fatal to a convention speech. Just ask Bill Clinton as he walked off the podium after delivering his keynote address at the 1988 Democratic Convention. And yet, when the themes for the next couple of nights - "Renewing America's Promise," "Securing...

The 110th Congress didn't bring the troops home. John McCain isn't interested in bringing the troops home. Barack Obama wants to redeploy the troops to another unnecessary, likely quagmire in Afghanistan. And, now President Bush wants to bring the troops home by 2011. It would be funny if it's weren't...

$500 million for Faith-Based Initiatives? Wow. Got to say, even after the last week, I didn't see that one coming. Too many Sister Souljah moments to count. What I want to see now are some more Sister Souljah moments -- ones moving back to the left.

Barack Obama dealt...

I'm thinking of tapping Barack Obama's phone. Yeah, why not? I want to find out why he's been sharing milkshakes with Antonin Scalia.

While I'm waiting for him to come on the line, let me run this by you: Remember Mark Penn? Former chief strategist for Hillary Clinton. He...

Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. With Obama turning down public financing, idealist can be heard saying, "Obama promised 'a new kind of politics.'" Well, let him get to that once he's in office.

As for myself,...

"Why is it that the more Hillary loses, the better I like her?" This was the opening line of Susan Cheever's radio commentary last week on NPR. You'd have thought, or at least hoped, that after seventeen months of Senator Clinton running for the White House, the disconnect between men...

I am white and I am a racist.

It's not on an academic level. On that level I would challenge any white person I know to be more aware and outraged by both the history of racial injustice in our nation and it's current manifestations.

It's on a...

On Thursday, John Eichinger will not be executed by the state of Pennsylvania. He will join a growing group of men and women on death row whose executions have been stayed pending the Supreme Court decision in the case of Baze v. Rees. As these lives are, at least temporarily,...

It's happened again. You couldn't miss it. John Edwards appears before a small crowd back in New Orleans where he began his presidential campaign and withdraws from the race. And, as if released from a puppeteer's string, his right hand is no longer jabbing the air. In addition, his fingers...