Yes, this has to end
November 22, 2017
When CBS News fired longtime newsman Charlie Rose from his current gigs as co-host of Morning News and correspondent for 60 Minutes Tuesday, the dynamics
Trump’s press attacks stirs memories
February 17, 2017
Thomas Jefferson railed against newspapers as “polluted vehicles” of falsehood and error. Richard Nixon tangled with reporters in the toxic atmosphere of Watergate, considering them
Dirtiest campaign of all time? Not by a long shot
August 16, 2012
At some point in every Presidential campaign, someone starts wringing their hands and declares the political rhetoric “toxic” and concludes that this is “the dirtiest
Obama laments technology, shallowness of information age
May 10, 2010
President Barack Obama lamented Sunday that in the iPad and Xbox era, information had become a diversion that was imposing new strains on democracy, in
Time to revisit term limits
April 26, 2010
Republicans seized control of Congress in the 1994 mid-term elections by promising, among other things, to turn term limits into the law of the land.
Right wing rewrites history in real time
April 2, 2010
The rabid right wants to rewrite history and in states like Texas they are already doing so. Conservatives in the Lone Star state want the
A Half-Baked Alaska Sermon
March 24, 2010
1832 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.. 1999 – Glenn Beck begins talks with