How to protect Social Security, in two easy steps: Step One: enlist an army. We've done that -- 3,000,000 people have signed petitions demanding "No ...
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,...
Perhaps this is one of those times when people need to be reminded of what Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature." Bigotry is wrong, whether it's directed against African-Americans, gays, Jews or Mormons.
Former Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) attacked the super committee and characterized the two-party system as "meanies" and "weenies" in an interview with ...
Coming from the right-wing worshipers of the free market, their latest analogy seems odd. Borrowing is a voluntary, "arms-length" agreement between two autonomous beings, which is exactly what the free market is all about.
Every one of your friends might need Medicaid one day, unless you're friends only with the Forbes 400.
I have an idea about how to how to cut $2 trillion. It's a very simple idea. In fact, I can sum it up in one word, with five letters: PEACE.
A dying man wants me to run for Congress. What exactly could I say? I promised that I would run.
The teabaggers want to "take back America." They want to take it back, all right -- take it all the way back to the 19th century.
Outgoing Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) took aim at his Democratic colleagues and President Obama in an exit interview with The New York Times over the we...
Outgoing Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) did the double duty Thursday of going after some of his biggest Republican enemies -- conservative pundits and for...
An interesting article caught my eye last week, but what with all the election hoopla, I haven't had a chance to write about it before now. But even ...
(a) "Conservative outside groups" have now spent more than $9 million "slamming vulnerable House Democrats," and (B) the total against me will reach ...
If senior White House adviser David Axelrod's comments this weekend are any indication, the Obama administration is woefully misreading the foreclosure fraud crisis currently gripping the U.S. economy.
For too long, the Left has been too soft when it comes to politics. We don't even have the backbone to push through Congress the issues we, as liberals, are most passionate about.
For weeks now across Florida, every paper you pick up has a story about the race for the 8th district.
Happy Friday the Thirteenth, everyone. It's actually a fitting day for this column, which I'll explain in a bit. Because before we get to that, we si...
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) has begun trading written barbs with Politico, the focus of the Congressman's latest fundraising campaign that seeks to hig...
For the first time this week, Republicans got that funny feeling that you get when you exercise a muscle that you didn't even know you had. That funny feeling the Republicans experienced was . . . a pang of conscience.
For years, I prosecuted war profiteers in Iraq. I saw exactly what Gen. Butler meant when he said, "war is a racket." I'm not going to change my mind about these wars any time soon. But we have to change other people's minds.
For the past half century, the military-industrial complex has perpetuated one war after another, at enormous cost in both blood and money. In its lust for oil, it has broken country after country, and now the sea floor.
I have to confess. There is a part of this job, this whole "Member of Congress" experience, that I'm just not any good at. In fact, I'm awful at it. I just can't bring myself to kiss up to lobbyists.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida) dropped a hyperbolic metaphor during an interview with Orlando television station WFTV, saying that allowing Republicans...
What George Orwell wrote about in 1984 has come true. What Eisenhower warned us about concerning the "military-industrial complex" has come true. War is a permanent feature of our societal landscape.
The Senate has actually been dealing with many financial issues that will directly effect American consumers, and they've been doing so in an orderly way. You'd think this would be news.
