Picking on Pelosi
For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.
For all of the suspicion and projection upon her, Speaker Pelosi is really like a mom making her kids behave politely at a fancy restaurant.
New York Times | Jim Rutenberg and Motoko Rich | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON -- With his sustained blitz of television appearances and speeches, former Vice President Dick Cheney has established himself as perhaps th...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics
What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?
Mike Lux | Posted 06.22.2009 | Business
Given how awful things were on January 20, the President deserves a great deal of credit for keeping our entire economic system from sliding into another Great Depression.
David Rees | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy
As far as I could tell, his speech was actually some weird kind of mouth-yoga where you keep returning to "9/11" position every thirty seconds.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
Look at the sentence, "Hold[ing] individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war," replace "an act of war" with "any crime," and you will realize why the proposed policy is so terrifying.
Steven Weber | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
The stark contrast between Dick Cheney and President Obama bespeaks the contrast in devotion to this country and its citizens.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business
As I toured the U.S. last week on the 11-state, 32-city "Keep it Made in America" bus tour. I talked to unemployed manufacturing workers who are desperate.
Reese Schonfeld | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
The slimy bastards of the Bush Administration contributed to the deaths of more Americans at the hands of a foreign power than any President in the history of the United States.
Disgrasian | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
They used to put Scripture like this on t-shirts in my Southern Baptist youth group, to get us kids pumped about spending the first week of summer, the first taste of freedom...quietly studying the Bible.
Jon Soltz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
As someone who still has friends over in Iraq and Afghanistan, it boils my blood to think that insurgents and terrorists now have something else to show around as "proof" that America is "fighting a war on Islam."
Josh Dorner | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
Rather than being some shadowy "White House document" objecting to those overzealous greens at the EPA, it could have been written by almost anyone within the vast federal bureaucracy.
The Progress Report | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
The same conservatives railing that Pelosi should have loudly objected to the program also defended the president's absolute right to order abusive interrogations, with or without congressional approval.
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green
We cannot claim to care for the poor while we turn our backs on our role in the destruction of the most basic resources our neighbors need for survival.
Steve Benen | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
It's a real shame Bush and Cheney screwed up so spectacularly, and ignored the law so systematically, that it's interfering with Obama's desire to govern. But Obama signed up for this gig.
Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
The Hill flags this interesting line from Senator Lindsey Graham about the way the Bush administration viewed the rule of law. During a hearing on th...
James Moeller | Posted 06.13.2009 | Politics
Why does it seem as if Obama is everywhere all the time, if he's really not?
Rick Horowitz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Style
On those questions, Cheney leaves us -- yet again -- in the dark. But we're certainly free to wonder: What did George Bush know, and how well did he know it?
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
The furor over when and whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was briefed about the use of waterboarding has distracted attention from what is, perhaps, ...
Adam McKay | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
What happened to hissing? It works, and people like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and John Yoo should get a wave of it every time they enter a restaurant. That's borderline civic duty type of stuff.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
Sometimes powerful people need to see the inside of a prison cell for a while to come to terms with the consequences of their actions. Richard Bruce Cheney is one of those people.
Tom Morris | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living
Self-deception is such a powerful force in our lives that we cannot guarantee, even if we do spot it in action, that we'll be able to resist its subtle lure.
Jim Wallis | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
A new generation of Evangelical Christians launched The Two Futures Project whose mission is "for the abolition of all nuclear weapons."
iowaindependent.com | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green
One out of every 50 people living near sites used to store ash or sludge from coal-fired power plants has a high risk of getting cancer, according to ...
Pro Publica | Posted 06.07.2009 | World
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some authored by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a little-know...
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics