We should challenge both the nasty idea that recession somehow will result in a cultural renaissance and the destructive one that we are all in need of therapeutic counseling.
It's like a rock in the pit of your stomach, a cold clammy feeling that spreads up your gut and momentarily stops your breath. It's the awful moment...
During the '84 NC Senate race, one of Helms' top aides responsible for implementing a gay-bashing strategy was McCain advisor Charlie Black.
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
In the wake of McCain-Palin visits to North Carolina, a string of election season crimes have occurred around the state involving violence, vandalism, and harassment.
This photo does not appear anywhere in the linked story. It is only on the Drudge Report front page.
I keep recalling the poisonous climate revved up by right wing fundamentalists in Israel prior to Rabin's murder. Are my recollections uncalled-for exaggerations? I sure as hell hope so.
Palin has been put to the job of trawling for undecided voters who are racially anxious enough to be tipped into voting for McCain by one additional rumor or tremor or fear.
The Greensboro News & Record in North Carolina's longtime editor, John Robinson, explained his reasoning in a column yesterday.
Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.
Who says Republicans are the only ones who can play the politics of fear? McCain's reckless temper combined with his inherent militancy is a very very dangerous combination.
McCain's hit squad are nattering nabobs of negativism -- they injure the long standing bi-partisan consensus on Israel for pure political gain.
It's the anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima - which makes it a day to consider power and vulnerability. Johnathan Schell writing in Yes Magazi...
Republicans are placing ballot initiatives concerning affirmative action on a number of key swing-state ballots in order bring out their voters and wedge independents away from the Dems.
In the name of "Global War on Terror," the U.S. Government is waging war on non-governmental organizations, forcing them to "operate within a legal regime that weakens civil society."
Some Americans and politicians believe my brother was to blame for his own murder because he voted Democratic.
For all the advantages that Barack Obama has this year, the same problems that nearly led to Kennedy losing to Nixon are lurking just below the surface of the 2008 political landscape.
The Constitution is a wacky, kinda living, kinda not, document that explains just what we Americans can get away with. It also frames the conditions w...
Can we just stipulate that each of the candidates devoutly loves this country, since there's no way to disprove otherwise? Slimy rumormongering just won't cut it.
What Charles Black and Hillary Clinton said were not "accidents" as they were in the past. It is likely that words like these will become the accepted political dialogue of the future.
Even though Sen. McCain didn't truly denounce Charlie Black and, instead, basically supported the lobbyist's awful statements, the very serious cable news people are giving McCain a pass on this thing.
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