Three questions for you.

1. Do you think of Republicans and the Tea Party as dangerous, violent extremists?
2. Do you think the Wisconsin protests over GOP Governor Scott Walker's move to strip public sector employees of collective bargaining were peaceful?
3. Do you scoff at the right wing notion that mainstream media...

As part of my documentary about how the Pigford settlement designed to help black farmers was hijacked by trial lawyers and politicians, I interviewed controversial congressman Steve King (R-IA) about the evidence he's personally heard about Pigford.

During the interview, he discussed the charge that it was the White House...

I spent a slightly surreal weekend hanging out with Andrew Breitbart at CPAC this past weekend and at the end of the conservative convention, he was served with a lawsuit from Shirley Sherrod, the former USDA official who was forced to resign by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack back...

"Be the change that you want to see in the world," Mahatma Gandhi

Isn't that great advice for anyone who sometimes feels overwhelmed by either world events or even just the complexities of daily life? Gandhi did change the world but he recognized where the focus needed to start.

So...

While I was conducting a video interview with a Georgia farmer named Eddie Slaughter a couple of weeks ago, he made a surprising and stunning allegation: that he had told his congressman about fraud in the multibillion dollar Pigford v. Glickman settlement and that the congressman responded by telling him...

Can we change the world by dropping the idea that we need to improve ourselves?

That's the radical but rational notion put forth by author and licensed therapist Derek Rydall, whose book "The Law of Emergence: A Revolutionary Principle for Achieving Your Full Potential" is due out this year.

Lee:...

Pigford v. Glickman was supposed to help black farmers discriminated against by the USDA. Instead, it's diverted hundreds of millions of dollars to people who never farmed and diverted attention away from the plight of real farmers.

The people helping to perpetuate the Pigford...

Earlier this year, I wrote about the poor working conditions for the animation and visual effects artists who have helped create some of most incredible (and profitable) films and TV shows of all time in an open letter to director James Cameron. In that piece, I discussed the...

Candidate Obama ran on a platform of openness, transparency and accountability in government but when it comes to the Pigford scandal, the USDA and Secretary Tom Vilsack continue a pattern of deception. At issue are accusations of fraud that may amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in a settlement...

I'm writing this a little before sunrise at a hotel room in Jackson, Mississippi. I'm traveling with my family -- my wife, three of our kids and two cats -- and gathering facts and conducting interviews about the Pigford vs. Glickman settlement that was designed to remedy the decades of...

Anderson Cooper is certainly capable of doing good journalism, but in many cases he simply can't overcome the clichéd convention of what passes for news reporting on television. Here's the scenario that nearly every news show on TV uses -- get two talking heads that are supposedly on different sides...

Sasha Gray has done it. Tracy Lords and Ron Jeremy have been doing it for years. Jenna Jameson wants to do it on Broadway.

These adult film actors and a handful of others have begun making the transition to more traditional entertainment work for years now. But behind the media...

The 2012 elections are just around the corner so it's obviously time for me to start hinting that I may run for President. Because, who knows? Don't count me out. I might! It's too early to say but I'm just saying. If I don't see any other candidates who are...

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Eninstein

"Forever in debt to your priceless advice." -- Kurt Cobain

It's hangover day. Democratic politicians and pundits are waking up, feeling a familiar soreness in their head, slowly and methodically...

It's fitting that Halloween and Election Day are only a few days apart. Both days use the iconography of fear to help gain treats and both leave a sort of sickening aftertaste.

The Republicans definitely don't deserve to win this election season but it's clear that the Democrats absolutely deserve...

When writer / director's Adam Green's debut feature Hatchet opened in theaters in 2006, the experience was both a dream come true...and a nightmare. Green says, "It was exciting to be able to sit down in a real theater with a paying audience to watch my movie but the film...

Another miserable election season approaches where good citizens are urged to hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils...but I'm an optimist. I think that America may be close to hitting bottom and that a new, viable third party might be about to emerge from our current...

As a small-business owner, I don't need to wait for the government reports of leading indicators and indices to know that there's been a tightening in people's willingness to spend over the long hot summer of 2010. The day-to-day experience of talking to clients and other business owners confirms that...

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart is America's most trusted news anchor and if CNN wants to stay alive, they should put the Emmy winner in charge of their network for a month or so.

Sure, Stewart is comedian but unlike Fox New's Glenn Beck at least he's a successful...

John Boehner, Republican representative from Ohio's eighth Congressional District and ironically the House minority leader, has told friends and family that he is an African-American.

According to reporter Marc Ambinder, Boehner arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently. "It's taken me 63 years to be comfortable with this...