Richard Greener

The next president will not be elected on November 6, 2012. The nationwide popular vote on that day means nothing. Doubters are referred to never-were Presidents Al Gore and Samuel J. Tilden, plus the elections of 1824 and 1888. Four times in our democratic history the popular vote winner did...

The great fuss over Citizens United and the predicted awful consequences to our politics that the pundits immediately declared after this court ruling is a red herring, an unnecessary worry, certainly not the fault of the court and easily prevented by the very media who are supposed to serve as...

Presidential nominating conventions are television shows first and political events second. Before the TV era, the Republicans once took as many 36 ballots to nominate James A. Garfield in 1880. Nobody watched. Nobody listened. Nobody cared how long. The GOP endured 10 ballots in 1920; six in 1940; and three...

If we don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows, what do we need to know who and what Barack Obama is?

How can it be that nasty Ann Coulter -- the Chancellor of the University of Made-Up Shit - how does she know what so...

Somebody has to say it.

The Republican Party has lost touch with reality. They offer an irrational alternative to President Obama.

Who's responsible for this staggering development in our political history? The elephant's share of the blame goes to those perfectly reasonable, completely rational Republicans who have chosen to step...

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann won what's been called everything from a "solid" to a "resounding" victory in the Ames Iowa Republican Straw Poll. Strange, isn't it, that supposedly credible news analysts on supposedly credible TV networks all said so -- all spoke glowingly about Ms. Bachmann's "important win" -- when Rep....

The debt ceiling debate is more political than financial. Not the actual crisis -- just the silly back and forth that passes for a debate on the issue. It shows all of us, and The Rest Of The World, the staggering level of ignorance running rampant among those who are...

The only meaningful difference in Congress between modern times and long ago is that now we have only a single political party in America. Face it, we have a one-party system with two right wings.

Our population has doubled and doubled again, based on 1913 statistics, over the last 100...

With their most resolute faces firmly in place, being sure not to pull "a Bachmann" and instead looking straight into the lens of the camera, an all-star cast of American public officials and highly respected political leaders have engaged in what can only be seen as either high hypocrisy or...

"We have met the enemy and he is us." So spoke Walt Kelly's Pogo. If you're looking for someone to blame for the shootings and killings in Tucson, look no further. Sure, Sarah Palin is a classless, ignorant, greedy attention seeker; a fine example of Oliver Goldsmith's wisdom that "every...

Mark Twain's novels are about to be bloodied. As a novelist, I understand, object and feel compelled to protest.

Mark Twain published the first novel written on a typewriter, Tom Sawyer in 1876. Eight years later, in 1884, he published Huckleberry Finn. Now, despite being dead for a hundred years...

Proposed Amendment to the Constitution:
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"There shall be no Senate and all references to that body in the constitution shall henceforth be deemed null and void including that in Article V. All duties and obligations previously reserved to the Senate and not specifically detailed in this Amendment...

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There is only one way to end the Tyranny of the Senate. Eliminate it altogether. Get rid of the Senate. We cannot turn the clock back. Repeal of the 17th Amendment would only turn the Senate's power back to the...

We live in a new Age of Tyranny, a tyranny imposed by the United States Senate. Worse yet, it's not even the majority of the Senate that's been able to produce this obscenity against representative democracy. Governance in the United States of America has been usurped by the Senatorial minority,...

Sitting presidents should be and usually are held responsible for their failed campaign promises. Lyndon B. Johnson ran for his own elected term as president in 1964 by telling the American people that in Vietnam "American boys should not be fighting a war that Asian boys should fight." Millions of...

Was Willie Sutton a Republican? Might have been. He was the most famous bank robber of his time, yet somehow he managed to die a free man, quietly living the good life in Florida. What's more, he never said that which he's most famous for, what he was supposed to...

A generation ago, the voice of American sports, Howard Cosell, spoke out. "The only choice left," wrote the Tell-It-Like-It-Is Cosell on July 2, 1986, "is to eliminate big-time college sports entirely. There is no other means to rid ourselves of the corruption, and stop the degradation of our educational system."...

The idea of the American Thanksgiving feast is a fairly recent fiction. The idyllic partnership of 17th Century European Pilgrims and New England Indians sharing a celebratory meal appears to be less than 120 years-old. And it was only after the First World War that a version of such a...

The name "Homeland Security" speaks for itself. If the homeland wasn't in danger, perhaps even in jeopardy, the agency known as Homeland Security would not exist. There would be no reason for it. And there would be no sub-group of more than 50,000 agents called the TSA and they would...

I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you! Keith Olbermann, a man who earns millions, an American citizen and (until today anyway) a free man living in a free country... actually donated $7,200 to three candidates running for public office. And I'm even more surprised to find out they were all... DEMOCRATS!...