Yesterday, speaking from the floor of the House, Rep. Virginia Foxx stumbled into some tricky rhetorical territory. Using her pen for emphasis, she d...
IrishCentral | KENNETH HAYNES | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics
On a BBC program last night, the superstar U2 singer recalled how he he stiffed President Bush out of the photo op in 2006 at the National Prayer Brea...
Beth Armogida | Posted 08.17.2009 | Comedy
Eric Holder is considering whether to conduct a criminal investigation of interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration. In other words, Cheney-gate. Or "Saw VII."
Ginny Sloan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
Of the many Guantanamo tragedies, perhaps none has been greater than our handling of the Uighurs, a group of Chinese Muslim detainees.
msn.com | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green
Reversing a Bush-era decision and honoring a pledge last month, the Obama administration on Tuesday granted California the ability to impose stringent...
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
When approaching Iran, the Republican Party line and the Hugo Chavez line are running in opposite directions -- but parallel.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business
Though Obama has enough on his plate, if time and energy can be directed at China because of export trade constraints, then certainly action against the OPEC cartel is long overdue.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
[updated below] Former President George W. Bush has been remarkably reticent since Barack Obama took office, saying that the new commander in chief "...
Dave Astor | Posted 07.18.2009 | Comedy
There's the Star Trek solution of changing the time-space continuum, but I'm hesitant to recommend that because of the damage it might do to the Obamas' new White House vegetable garden.
Anne Dunev | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics
Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 07.13.2009 | Comedy
Colbert broadcast his final show from Iraq last night and in it George W. Bush gave a "shout-out" to the troops, saying: "Laura and I send our gree...
Dave Astor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Comedy
In the days before the internet, how did out-of-town journalists transmit typewritten stories to their editors? They folded the stories into paper airplanes and hurled them out of hotel windows.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics
Congressman Ron Paul: I think Obama is purely political. I think he has backed down on what he said.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
A death at Guantánamo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, and is also uncomfortable for the Obama administration, which claims that it is running a "humane" facility.
AP | JEFF CARLTON | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
DALLAS — A Texan is trying to put a former president under oath and find out what he knew and when he knew it. But the issue isn't national secu...
Jim Lichtman | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics
In a press interview regarding the Iraq war, Vice-President Dick Cheney was asked "Over 70 percent of Americans disagree with this war, what is your r...
Michael Roston | Posted 06.24.2009 | World
History is not on North Korea's side, and ensnaring the hermit state in negotiations establishes some possibility of reining in its behaviors.
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."
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business
It is time for the Obama administration to show it is cognizant of the creeping upward push of oil and gasoline prices and its impact on a still very fragile economy.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
Congressman Moran: Those who are culpable need to be judged by their peers and I think we need to put in place some kinds of structures to ensure that we never repeat our mistakes.
Matthew Weiner | Posted 06.03.2009 | Living
Buddhism is deadly serious about nonviolence, because karma has serious consequences. Morality is never about a person's right to choose, but about understanding the consequences of ones actions.
Scott Diel | Posted 05.30.2009 | World
A friend of mine in the United States recently got shot. Now the media says he's a hero. Hero or unfortunate son of a bitch? In America, it's a fine line that separates them.
Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
Should we prosecute the agents who committed the torture? We should not. As a longtime advocate for prosecutions, that may sound surprising coming from me.
Harry Moroz | Posted 05.23.2009 | Business
It seems almost ridiculous, or at least unnecessary, to talk about "demonstrable" results (let alone successes) from Bush's 2008 package when the economy has so visibly deteriorated since its passage.
Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
There is no pretext this time of helping anyone but themselves -- a change from the days when "W" dispatched his father and his predecessor to work in tandem for the world's good.
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics