The Night They Brought Old Dixie Back
The Republicans are resurgent, at least for now. It's going to be a hard slog in 2010 and 2012 to keep the grassroots fervor alive -- and the funding to sustain it. In Virginia, we are just plain tired.
The Republicans are resurgent, at least for now. It's going to be a hard slog in 2010 and 2012 to keep the grassroots fervor alive -- and the funding to sustain it. In Virginia, we are just plain tired.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.
Leighann Lord | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
Maybe Barack didn't campaign harder for Thompson because, deep down, he knew it wouldn't do any good.
Sadie Nardini | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
Mr. President, I'm sure your stress levels are unbelievable. Yet, if you want to help create change we can believe in, then you must stop bumming cigarettes. I know you've done it, and may do it again.
President Abdoulaye Wade | Posted 11.05.2009 | World
Battling global warming, the economic crisis, food and energy shortages, and AIDS and malaria requires co-partners, not post-colonial relationships.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
The election results show that no incumbent governor (or incumbent party) can escape the wrath of an electorate that continues to bleed while it watches tax dollars squandered on foreign wars and Wall Street fat cats.
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Hillary Clinton's three-day visit to Islamabad and Lahore, which began inauspiciously on the day of the terrorist attacks, was widely derided in the Pakistani press and cursorily covered here at home.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.29.2009 | Comedy
With Halloween just around the corner, some folks in the White House are getting into the spooky spirit. Namely, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
The news media has an annoying tendency to focus on the symptoms, not the disease.
Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
If you provide the American people with a competitive public option, the American people will keep the insurance industry in check. We will force them with our premium payments to treat us fairly.
Wendy Sachs | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
They are the quintessential power couple. Parents of young children, they are attractive, athletic, romantic, charismatic, exotic, and trying to save the world one organic garden at a time.
Colin Delany | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics
Somehow it came up that her own son and his wife were reluctant to have children, which in itself is nothing unusual, but their reason blew my folks' minds: it was because they didn't want their kids to grow up in a "communist" country.
gaycitynews.com | Paul Schnidler | Posted 10.29.2009 | New York
"For himself, I think, he's going to take all the time he believes he needs in order to be successful, because it's all about being successful." Thos...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
The current status-quo in the Middle East must be disturbed before conditions are right for the next round of Middle East diplomacy.
Sherry Bebitch Jeffe | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Pelosi's first priority is to maintain her speakership, and that means protecting her Democratic majority through the 2010 elections -- even if it means bucking her own party's president.
Will Durst | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy
Obama needs to keep in mind the advice my father regularly spouted after his third six pack: never get in a fight with an ugly person, he's got nothing to lose. You know. Like a Republican.
Vikrum Aiyer | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
A coalition government in Afghanstan, while supposedly offering the best of both worlds, tacitly condones an illegitimate election and would require America to broker power among competing personalities.
Robert Naiman | Posted 10.25.2009 | World
Congress fights over whether we can "afford" to provide every American with quality health care, but every health care reform proposal on the table will likely cost less than McChrystal's endless war.
Neil McCarthy | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Even the lies are ... Boring.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books
In the end, unfolding like a chilling and disturbing thriller, Climate Cover-Up is about one of the greatest campaigns of misinformation in our time.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
The lesser-known 504 program from the U.S. Small Business Administration can be ideal for small-business owners to buy, build or rehabilitate commercial buildings.
Ellen Sterling | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
If I asked you to think of Jerry Springer and politics, you might recall that he was mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. But, if any of that is all you know about Springer, you're missing out.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
Charles Perez | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
As Michelle Obama once warned critics, "Don't ever underestimate my husband." Maybe we shouldn't. Obama is playing a big game. His biggest challenge will come in righting the economy.
Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics