Josh Horwitz, 09.02.2010

Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence

This ideological dichotomy in our body politic has become the defining feature of the upcoming November elections, and it was put on full display this past Saturday at two mass rallies in our nation's capitol.

Steve Clemons, 09.02.2010

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

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.

Will Bunch, 09.02.2010

Author, "The Backlash"

Last March, the week that the health care reform was signed into law, I plopped down on a sofa and watched Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck for an hour w...

Bob Cesca, 09.02.2010

Host of the Bob and Elvis Show

While everyone is focused on the crowd sizes or Glenn Beck's tall tale about holding in his bare hands George Washington's inaugural address at the National Archives, the more important questions ought to be about the money.

John Shore, 09.01.2010

Award-winning author and blogger

What Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga are both communicating to their fans is: "Even though the world might care not a whit about you, you are, just as you are, fantastic."

Mark Joseph, 09.01.2010

Producer, author, talk show host and editor of Bullypulpit.com

Why should Palin even try to run for President when she can essentially govern from her kitchen table in Alaska by endorsing candidates who share her political beliefs?

David Helfenbein, 09.01.2010

former government official, political prognosticator, website founder and editor

I fear that many Democrats and Republicans who are not joining the Tea Party bandwagon are underestimating the power of this movement.

Terry Newell, 09.01.2010

Terry Newell focuses on ethics and leadership and has had a long career in public service.

Any rally on the mall honoring King must acknowledge that the government, rightly led, can be a force for good. Hating the government, to King, was no less despicable than hating one's fellow human being.

Chris Kelly, 09.01.2010

Writer, Real Time with Bill Maher

The way Sarah Palin fixes a political opponent, in a close election in Alaska, is by saying they're soft on abortion. The Republicans do have a jobs plan. And it's all babysitters.

Sally Kohn, 09.01.2010

Chief Agitation Officer of the Movement Vision Lab, organizer, political satirist

At Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally this past weekend in Washington, DC, we learned two things: 1. That Beck and the Tea Party want to take a so...

Molly Secours, 09.01.2010

Writer, Filmmaker, Speaker, Columnist: nashvillecitypaper.com

Perhaps disappointed and bemused with the incessant bickering, backbiting and slandering, God finally agreed to set the record straight about the proposed Ground Zero Mosque in an interview with Katie Couric.

Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto, 08.31.2010

Assistant Professor, Political Science at Northwestern University

Politicos and journalists are keenly aware of how racial cuing is one of the most potent messaging tools. Today, racial animus can be cued ever so delicately

Chase Whiteside, 08.30.2010

Documentary filmmaker with New Left Media

Peggy Drexler, 08.30.2010

Author, assistant professor of psychology at Cornell Medical School

I have to admit, I really thought this would all be over by now. But this weekend, there she was again, at Glenn Beck's revival, exhorting 90,000 angry white folks to honor the troops and take back the country.

William Bradley, 08.30.2010

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

Meg Whitman is failing in her goal of building a big 12 to 15-point lead over Jerry Brown over the summer, a lead from which he can't recover in the fall. In fact, she has no lead at all in any credible poll.

Judge H. Lee Sarokin, 08.31.2010

Retired in 1996 after 17 years on the federal bench

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin are constantly talking about restoring our Constitution. They want to get our Constitution back. I did not know that it had gone away.

Andy Ostroy, 08.30.2010

NYC political/pop culture analyst (Twitter @AndyOstroy)

Republican leaders today are doing exactly what George W. Bush did nine years ago when conflating al Qaeda terrorists with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, turning the masses against an easy scapegoat.

Miles Mogulescu, 08.30.2010

Entertainment attorney, writer, and political activist

Republicans who vote down unemployment insurance and try to pass more tax cuts for the rich should be scared to show up in public. It's time for progressives to rediscover their history of mass protests.

Charles Karel Bouley, 08.30.2010

Talk Show Host, Entertainer, Author, Reporter, Comic

The industry of Glen Beck is happy: those that own him in radio and TV. He had an absolutely great weekend when it comes to the media.

Bill Press, 08.30.2010

Host of The Bill Press Radio Show

After months of huffing and puffing on Fox News, Glenn Beck did succeed in pulling a big crowd out to the Lincoln Memorial on August 28th. But, once they got there, nothing happened.

Victoria Jones, 08.30.2010

White House correspondent, Talk Radio News Service

Saturday's rally was all about the weird theme that America's honor needs restoring, presumably because somebody's sullied it. But who?