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A Short Vocabulary Lesson for Sen. Lieberman (With Some History Thrown In At No Extra Charge)

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics


RJ Eskow

People who label Nidal Malik Hasan a "terrorist," like Joe Lieberman has done, literally don't understand the meaning of the word. How can they protect us from it if they don't even know what it is?

Politiku for Mother's Day

Susanna Speier | Posted 06.10.2009 | Living


Susanna Speier

The impact that our mothers' feelings, ideas, ideals, experiences and activities have on us is difficult to grasp. What is clear, however, is that our mothers' politics influence our political identity

Ayers To Make Speech Via Satellite After Appearance Canceled

AP | Posted 04.30.2009 | Chicago


BOSTON (AP) -- Former Weather Underground Organization member William Ayers will address Boston College students via satellite after university admini...

San Francisco Police Take Aim At Bill Ayers And Bernardine Dohrn For 1970 Bombing

San Francisco Chronicle | Demian Bulwa | Posted 04.12.2009 | Chicago


Leaders of San Francisco's police officers union have accused Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, of taking part...

Former Weather Underground Member: Ayers "Disingenuous"

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics


Former Weather Underground member Howard Machtinger argues in an "In These Times" essay that Bill Ayers "glosses over" the violence of the organizatio...

TV Ad Wars: McCain's "Joe The Plumber" Campaign (Seriously)

William Bradley | Posted 11.21.2008 | Media


William Bradley

McCain is going with Joe the Plumber as the advertising centerpiece of his campaign and absent some fantastic new character attack against Obama, it's his best shot left at an economic message.

Bill Ayers, Blackberries and John McCain

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics


Lincoln Mitchell

The Bill Ayers issue underscores just how out of touch John McCain is with the country he seeks to lead. It is also, for many Americans, just another way for John McCain to tell us he is old.

The Bill Ayers Distraction

Dennis Perrin | Posted 11.10.2008 | Media


Dennis Perrin

I carry my share of misery, but a fair number of reactionaries must have ceaseless raging fear in their heads. Isn't real life awful enough? Why the need for even worse alternate realities?

I Did the Research: Billy Ayers Is an Irrelevant Show-Off

Susan Braudy | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


Susan Braudy

Why am I not surprised that Ayers, master of publicity is once more making front page headlines. I'm betting he's thrilled.

Calling Bill Ayers a "Terrorist" Doesn't Make Him So

Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics


Sam Sedaei

Sarah Palin has been out there saying Obama is friends with Ayers, "a domestic terrorist." In response, Obama has accurately pointed out that Ayers committed his actions over forty years ago, when Obama was eight years old.

You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics


Chris Weigant

Whatever you believe about Bill Ayers and the Weathermen, the fact remains that he is not running for president. But John McCain doesn't really have any other arrows left in his quiver.

Terrorists, Secessionists, Sarah Palin and Guilt by Association

Robert Mackey | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics


Robert Mackey

Governor, you have a "close association" with a known former member of a radical, right-wing, well-armed and well-funded political party whose founder damned the United States as virulently as Reverend Wright did.

Last Night at Nikos

Norman MacAfee | Posted 09.07.2008 | Living


Norman MacAfee

"I Am Astro Place" I wrote in the 1980s as a screenplay, "Astro Place," about some cultural and political people living near Astor Place in the East Village in the fraught years 1984 to 2001.

The Latest Proof that the Karl Rove Playbook Has Become the MSM's Bible

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.29.2008 | Media


Arianna Huffington

The mainstream media seems intent on confirming that it has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become part of its DNA. The first of the latest round of exhibits proving this was offered into evidence during last week's ABC debate. This was followed by the New York Times' epic revelation of the unseemly complicity between the Pentagon and the media in delivering the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq via "a kind of Trojan media horse" -- Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" dutifully parroting the Bush party line, with nary a raised eyebrow from the TV stations and newspapers offering these highly-decorated sock puppets their prestigious platforms. And it's not just the media. Witness Hillary Clinton repeating the Rove-promoted lie that MoveOn was against intervention in Afghanistan after 9/11.

Thomas B. Edsall

Clinton Backer Distributes Essay On How GOP Would Link Obama To '70s Radicals

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics


A high-ranking labor supporter of Hillary Clinton is distributing to union leaders and to Democratic strategists a document detailing the radical acti...

The "What He Said" Game

Cenk Uygur | Posted 04.25.2008 | Media


Cenk Uygur

This game sickens me. All I want to know now is whether the so-called news folks are in on it or if they are fools being played like clueless puppets.

The Weather Underground False Debate

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

If Hillary Clinton thinks it's a big deal that Barack Obama has crossed paths with Bill Ayers, the political discourse is stuck in neutral.

Hillary And The Commies

Marc Cooper | Posted 04.24.2008 | Home


Marc Cooper

During Wednesday night's debate, George Stephanopoulos didn't flinch from trying to smear Obama by association with former '60s radical Bill Ayers. Too bad George didn't ask Hillary about her summer spent working for a law firm run by Communists.