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Bereft in Berlin

Marc Kusnetz | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics


Marc Kusnetz

Each time Obama steps on a new stage, the press criticizes his rhetoric as high-falutin' but devoid of content. Do they think Berlin was the perfect time to announce a new initiative for the earned income tax credit?

Misery Index Highest Since Bush 41

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business


John Tepper Marlin

The economic misery index, which is simply the sum of unemployment and inflation rates, rose in June to 10.5, its highest level in 15 years.

Reverse Robin Hood: Stealing From the Poor to Give to the Rich

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business


Martin Bosworth

For true capitalism to work, there has to be a balance of free enterprise and accountable oversight. Everyone should be able to start at the same line and run the race according to their own skill and strength.

The Real Legacy of the 'Reagan Revolution'

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics


Robert Scheer

Indifference to economics does not explain the prominence of Phil Gramm in the McCain campaign during the U.S. financial crisis. Indifference to the folks losing their homes is a more plausible explanation.

Reaganomics: As Pompous And Disaster-Ready As the Titanic

Jim Baughman | Posted 07.14.2008 | Home


Jim Baughman

Disaster has struck and some useful lessons may be learned, lessons we learned in the 1930s, and then rejected in the 1980s and 1990s, as too restrictive -- as "socialist" and anti-American.

McCain's Cigarette Gaffe: A Cold Blood Commander-In-Chief?

Omid Memarian | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics


Omid Memarian

Unlike most of veterans who respect human lives due to their profound and extraordinary experiences at wars, McCain's joking about people's lives is a disastrous trait for a president.

Robert F. Kennedy: What if He Had Lived? -- A Golden Age That Never Was

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

Kennedy's death came when the world was on the cusp of transformation -- between authoritarian societies and social and political justice. Much of that change was stalled in the US for decades to come.

Old Myths From The Age of Idiocy (The One We're in Now)

Larry Beinhart | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics


Larry Beinhart

The Great Republican Disaster, from Reagan to Bush the Lesser, has been the Time of the Unreal. Recently there have been signs of hope. Yes. Hope means Obama. He speaks of reality.

Take Off That Hat, Dick Cheney

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics


Mike Bonifer

The Bush Gang was not the first to appropriate cowboy iconography for politics, but since they did, to be called a cowboy has, almost impossibly it seems to me, become some kind of slur.

What Is Appeasement?

William Bradley | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics


William Bradley

John McCain had to choose between supporting his party's president or denouncing his comments as the sort of hostile divisiveness he had himself just denounced. He chose to support Bush.

Memo to Tom Hanks: Barack Obama Is No Harry Truman

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics


Robert Schlesinger

If elected, Obama, could become a magic speaker in the vein of the Big Three; the extent to which he can go off-the-cuff in a Trumanesque manner remains unclear.

It's Time to End Post-Reagan Conservatism

Byron Williams | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics


Byron Williams

Post-Reagan conservatives liberally throw out the name of the Gipper for the purposes of legitimacy; that is where the similarities end.

William F. Buckley -- Words Never Failed Him

John Fund | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics


John Fund

Buckley was that rarest of revolutionaries, and set a standard we all should emulate for having friendships across the political divide.

Obama as Told by George Lakoff

Dave Winer | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics


Dave Winer

What became apparent in last night's debate is that we already have more leadership from this man who hasn't yet won the Democratic nomination than we have from our actual president.

It's Not Race or Gender, It's a Generational Conflict

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics


Jennifer Donahue

There is a generational conflict happening, and the breaking point seems to be split by women who are 40 years old.

Catholics Swing Both Ways

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

The Republicans will again trot out Rove-Hudson anti-abortion, anti-gay issues to whip Catholics into line. But many Democrats have learned to fight back.

Sam Stein

McCain Booed Again At CPAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics


The reservations and skepticism of conservatives over a John McCain candidacy continued today, as attendees at the CPAC conference again booed him and...

Taxes and Unions Got Us Out Of the Depression

Dave Johnson | Posted 02.08.2008 | Politics


Dave Johnson

I wonder why no one has pointed out the real reason the Republicans filibustered the "stimulus bill" this week?

Is Obama More Reagan than JFK?

Sunil Garg | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics


Sunil Garg

What Obama is trying to do is more like what Ronald Reagan did for the Republicans -- create a new majority founded not on centrist ideas, but core party beliefs. Now, that is audacious.

Who Would Reagan Vote For? What About Coulter? Shockers of the Republican Primary

Steve Young | Posted 02.01.2008 | Media


Steve Young

With an election filled with the Right's Lord of Loud clamoring for the next Ronald Reagan - while they're not lambasting John McCain - are now confro...

Reading The Pictures: Air Reagan

Michael Shaw | Posted 01.31.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-01-31-shaw_reagan_fp.jpgIt's no surprise that the Reagan Library (with the able assistance of ratings-hungry CNN) would go out of the way to boost the cred of the GOP candidates by virtually embossing them onto the side of Air Force One.

Republican Debate In California

Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics


The four remaining Republican candidates debate tonight at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. Straight Talkin' McCain?: Washington Post'...

Gov. Schwarzenegger: Make Voting "Spicy"

Jacob Soboroff | Posted 01.30.2008 | Home


Jacob Soboroff

What does the California Governor think we can do to maintain the increase in voter participation that we've seen so far in the 2008 presidential race?

The Truth Behind Clinton's Distorted Ad Attacking Obama

Art Levine | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics


Art Levine

To Clinton's critics, the ad seems to be another tactic borrowing heavily from the Karl Rove-style gameplan.

Why Political Optimism and Spiritual Optimism Are the Same

Deepak Chopra | Posted 01.21.2008 | Living


Deepak Chopra

What Obama awakened in Iowa was a sense of political optimism for the first time in a generation. We are reminded of the power of optimism today on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


 

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