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Democrats may have finally caught a break in 2010. As the Sunday morning political shows, a civil war may erupt in the GOP after the defeat of both Re...
Michael, while doing important, good works, misses no opportunity to promote himself, yet occasionally he misses the mark in his documentaries or when he appears on TV promoting his films.
Before our collective memory fades, I just want us to be honest with ourselves and present an unsanitized version of how they pulled off this war. We invaded Iraq because most Americans -- including good liberals -- wanted to.
Famous running back Jim Brown could score one last touchdown by reminding everybody that equal opportunity does not exist in the current world economic order.
What Barack Obama described in the 2008 campaign is what we are seeing unfold in the country. Guns and religion -- or, in other words, fear and intolerance.
The debacle in Iraq is not merely a result of errors in planning or poor decision-making. Soldiers are still risking their lives every day in Iraq, "combat" or no "combat," and many more will die for this policy our neo-con leaders handed down to us.
The New York Times headline Tuesday, "Obama Weighs Smaller Measures on the Economy," if true, will extinguish what's left of the hope and optimism that catapulted him into office.
I was working in Ghana when Katrina occurred. The reaction of my Ghanaian coworker was, "America will rebuild New Orleans in no time!" He then qualified his statement: "America could rebuild New Orleans in no time, if it wanted to."
When we signed up for service, we swore to uphold the Constitution. Some have tried to claim that the construction of the community center at its currently planned site is "anti-America." We don't believe that to the be case, at all.
There is a negative "Clinton effect" on the financial health of nonprofit relief agencies here and abroad who have to compete with them for a diminishing pool of available private funds.
It's now down to politics. The only reason to oppose the New START treaty is political gamesmanship on the eve of elections to deny the administration a victory. This would sacrifice our national security for narrow, partisan gain.
We've come to yet another crossroads where we have to ask, technology is awesome and we invented it, but what can it do for us? And more importantly, how can it make us better human beings?
The BP spill has serious national security implications. Had Al-Qaeda blown up a supertanker, the national response would have been more intense by order of magnitude.
The BP spill is not solely about what Obama should do. The catastrophe is a political grenade that the pack of right-side talk jocks have tossed at Obama to tar him as a weak, ineffectual leader.
Here we go again. A prominent Republican likens President Obama to Adolf Hitler, and the Republican leadership remains embarrassingly, shockingly silent.
The author was obviously trying to put the 2009 dinner in context with how previous years' affairs went. But he may have gotten a bit carried away in including quite so many characters, even as afterthoughts.
