My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 2]
Welcome back to my annual outright theft of The McLaughlin Group's awards categories for the past year in politics.
Welcome back to my annual outright theft of The McLaughlin Group's awards categories for the past year in politics.
We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.
America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.
President Obama now has a difficult sales job to perform. In essence, his message will be: we need to get in deeper to get out of Afghanistan sooner. He's right.
Why lay out a withdrawal plan now? As a colleague in the Pakistani media told me, after they're assured that America's serious, the Afghan public will still want to hear that one day we'll leave.
Lots of people on the right and left agree about the problems with the bailouts and the White House has no answers for them. How do you think that will play at the polls?
Despite enormous pressure to support H.R. 3962, Rep. Kucinich did the right thing and voted 'no.' Unlike the Blue Dog votes against the bill, he did it for all the right reasons.
The Yes Men have a firm Michael Moore legacy (he appears in the trailer for their 2003 film, The Yes Men) but they do not yet have his audiences.
Filmmaker Joe Winston appeared on The Interview Show, a talk show I host at The Hideout in Chicago, to discuss his new documentary, What's the Matter ...
We've reached an incredible moment when Alan Greenspan, Michael Moore, FDIC head Sheila Bair and Elizabeth Warren are all singing the same tune: calling for breaking up the big banks.
I have 15 things we can all do right now to fix the very broken system in this country and to fight back against those who have brought us to where we are. C'mon people -- we can do this!
Do Republicans have respect for the position of President of the United States only if it's a Republican in office?
The No Impact project asks you to rethink a particular area of your life each day, beginning today with consumption. Tomorrow, it's on to trash, then transportation, food, energy, water, and community involvement.
Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.
American-style capitalism is the system that gives you pilots buying groceries with food stamps and sheriffs throwing families out of their homes. President Obama, it's time for a "new" New Deal.
Every so often, you get a window into the past - and realize that it offered you a picture of the future. Only you didn't realize it at the time. My ...
I personify the vanishing middle class. When I started my business in 1980, I had a pretty good life. Twenty-five years later, my standard of living has totally deteriorated.
Has the popular anger that fueled attendance at Moore's anti-Bush administration films diminished with Obama's election?
On a throwback vibe, you could say that Capitalism: A Love Story is the bomb. By exploring the economic system of capitalism as an evil, Moore fires a salvo into the heart of America's social machine.
In Michael Moore's worldview, a goodly portion of the American people are ignorant, uneducated, clueless pinheads too stupid to realize the fundamental principle of a loan.
Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around.