Insult comic Don Rickles told a joke about President Obama being a janitor. Like most of Rickles’ material over the last several decades, it wasn’t funny.
Why isn’t the American middle class and working class angrier at the 1 percent?
A North Carolina teacher screamed and cursed at students for criticizing President Obama.
The day after President Obama expressed his personal support for gay marriage, a report has surfaced of his presumptive general election opponent engaging in a mean, anti-gay “prank” back in 1965.
Nicholas Katzenbach, a central figure in the civil rights fights of the 1960s, has died.
The famous “double helix” article was published 59 years ago today. It’s worth a look.
The arrival of Discovery in Washington D.C. has led to another lament about “national greatness.”
It would be nice if people in power would be a bit more introspective and thoughtful.
A new poll shows just how badly the GOP is doing among Hispanic voters.
Have Americans divided themselves into what are becoming increasingly different cultures?
Last night, Ron Paul decided it was a good idea to bring back the ghosts of the Vietnam War era.
How can we know what happens next in North Korea when we didn’t even know Kim Jong-il had died?
Time Magazine has chosen “The Protester” as its Person Of The Year. Let the outrage ensue.
In a desperate bid to save a floundering campaign, Rick Perry is willing to sacrifice important freedoms.
Another meme debunked, plus some thoughts on policy.
Why we shouldn’t be surprised that police are using tools of violence against protestors.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the green beret as the official headgear of US Army Special Forces.
Apparently, we should be more like China. Or something.
The Occupy Wall Street movement faces obstacles its Tea Party counterpart didn’t.
The Occupy Wall Street protests are, ironically, hurting small business owners and others in the 99 percent.
Pete Gent, the former Dallas Cowboy and Michigan State player best known as the author of “North Dallas Forty,” has died at 69 from pulmonary illness.
Ensuring the integrity of the voting process is a worthy goal, not evidence of discrimination.
Congress failing to raise the debt ceiling would involve abrogating an enormous amount of power to the Executive.
Do ideologically radical professors impose their biases on their students?
We need to stop talking as if the Medicare debate is a question of the Ryan Plan v. the Status Quo.
Across the country, Republicans are pushing laws that will make voting harder.
It’s just one Congressional District out of 435, but that won’t stop everyone from trying to turn the results in NY-26 into a national referendum on Medicare reform.
Whenever I despair at the current state of the Republican Party, I remind myself that things aren’t much better across the aisle.
Two new polls reflect the extent to which public attitudes on same-sex marriage have changed dramatically over the past twenty years, and it’s only a matter of time before that’s reflected in the law.
The most likely cuts in federal spending are likely to actually increase the deficit over time.
Yet another study finds conservatives wildly underrepresented in higher education.
European subsidies have given Airbus a competitive advantage over America’s Boeing in commercial aircraft salesboein. The reverse is true on military aircraft.
There’s a lesson to be drawn from the tragedy in Arizona, but it isn’t the one the media is talking about.