Alan Grayson

Yesterday, the 10-year Treasury note hit its lowest interest rate in history. For the third day in a row.

I didn't hear that reported. Did you?

Treasury notes started trading in substantial amounts during World War I, almost 100 years ago. Until Wednesday of this week, the lowest interest rate...

Yesterday, I visited Tipaza, in Algeria. Tipaza is over 2,000 years old. It was founded by Phoenician traders, and then occupied by Rome. The Roman Army made it a military base. And the first thing that you see when you enter the ruins of Tipaza is the coliseum -- where...

A few weeks ago, it was reported that some right-wing rich guys' club had pledged $100 million to defeat President Obama. The Koch Brothers led the way, pledging $60 million, which is pocket change, when your net worth is $50,000,000,000.00.

Leaving aside the obvious issue -- the estate...

I'm asking you to support a candidate, Norman Solomon, who has spent 40 days in jail. Usually, that's a bad thing. But in some cases, it's a good thing.

Nelson Mandela was arrested on August 5, 1962. He was released on February 10, 1990. Mandela was awarded the Nobel...

I recently happened to be at an event where billionaire George Soros was being interviewed. The right wing hates Soros because he is: (a) liberal, (b) rich, and (c) fearless. [I could also make a case that they hate Soros because he is (d) Jewish, but I leave that up...

I live in Orlando, so a number of people have asked me what I think about the death of Trayvon Martin. Trayvon, a teenager, was shot dead by a "neighborhood watch" member as Trayvon was walking home from a convenience store. Trayvon was armed with nothing but a bottle of...

In a TV interview on Sunday, Rick Santorum said that if he is elected President, he will file criminal charges against the distribution of pornography. Santorum specifically referred to “exposure on the Internet,” so presumably he would censor the Internet.

The Internet Police. What a concept.

Santorum complained that President...

For most people, prison is punishment. For a few, it becomes a badge of honor.

One Member of Congress told me that every few years, he gets arrested. So that people can see whose side he's on.

Eugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years in prison for...

I know something you don’t know, unless you happen to have been a Democratic Member of Congress. I know what happens in the House Democratic Caucus Meetings.

Contrary to popular belief among Fox News commentators, we don’t greet each other in those meetings as “Comrade” (although occasionally, the salutations of...

Half of all marriages end in divorce.  And -- this is even worse -- the other half end in death.

Most political careers are the same way.  Half of them end in defeat, and the other half end in death (which is, of course, another form of defeat). ...

As the Republican demolition derby rolls on, I continue to be amused by how each remaining contender tries to assume the “small government” mantle.

Mitt Romney wants a government so small that it provides universal health care.

Newt Gingrich wants a government so small that it will establish a permanent...

On Sunday, in connection with the Academy Awards, the staff sent out an email identifying some of our accomplishments this past year:

(1) Explaining the Occupy Wall Street movement to a national audience on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and earning the first standing ovation for a guest in the show's 10-year history.

(2)Seeing that...

Today is Presidents Day. That makes it a good time to talk about one of the great anomalies in presidential history: the fact that President Abraham Lincoln, our Commander in Chief during our bloodiest war, took the time to review over 1,600 cases of military convictions during his 1,503 days...

Mitt Romney won the Maine Presidential Primary with 2,000 votes.

Not BY 2,000 votes. WITH 2,000 votes.

In a state with 1.3 million people, exactly 5,585 of them cared about the Republican nominee for president enough to bother to vote. In an open caucus, not limited to voters who had...

A “perishable good” is something that declines in value when it is not consumed. Like cranberries. Or football tickets. Or labor.

An hour of labor, if not used, is gone. Gone forever.

Think about it. Today, February 10, 2012, there are millions of Americans who can work, who want to...

On Aug. 9, 2010, less than three months before the Democrats suffered their worst defeat in the House of Representatives in more than a century, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs tried to blame it all on what he called “the professional left.” In an interview with the D.C....

Something caught my eye a few months ago. International standardized tests in mathematics now put U.S. students at or near the bottom, in the entire developed world.

Which is really odd, when you think about it. After all, 2+2=4 in New York, Tokyo, and everywhere else I know.

One recent...

A few days ago, when I heard about Newt Gingrich’s plan/idea/hallucination to make the moon the 51st state, I wondered what else he has in mind for the country we all love. (I mean America. And, for liberal Democrats, North Korea. Or at least that’s what Newt would say.)

Newt...

Mitt Romney did not invent predatory capitalism.  It’s been around for a while.

Predatory capitalism was already alive and well in 1978, in Cleveland.  That was when the One Percent who controlled the banks, and pretty much everything else of value, decided that they wanted to steal the local...

In America, whites have 20 times that wealth of African-Americans. So says census data.

Not 20% more. Not twice as much. Twenty times as much. Specifically, the median household wealth for whites in 2009 was $113,149, and the median household wealth for African-Americans was $5,677.

When I...