Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
We are the Tiger Woods of nations. We’ve been very good at a couple of things for some time now. Things like commerce and belligerence. Or, best yet, commerce backed by belligerence. Things that involve a bit of testosterone. David M Green | ••••••• For the better part of a century now, America has [...]
IS IT ADVISABLE FOR ONE WHO IS NOT AN EXPERT on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is. Let us first consider the question from the point of view of scientific knowledge. It might appear that there are no essential [...]
Opeds— By Case Wagenvoord | We are slowly learning that all deficits are not created equal. There are good deficits and there are bad deficits; there are deficits that wear white hats and those that wear black hats. PHOTO: Former baseball pitcher and currently senator for the benighted state of Kentucy, Jim Bunning, has [...]
OpEds— The wages of bottomless greed and public confusion are becoming evident everywhere we look BY GUI ROCHAT IT IS A SIMPLE FACT that we are addicted to energy consumption. This is much like the drug trade, because it is not battling the suppliers that will diminish the import and consumption of drugs, but the [...]
GUEST EDITORIALS— BP Oil Spill a Crime not a Disaster Did you know that the oil from wells on US territories is sold on the open market so the idea that more wells offshore will make us “energy independent” is a farce? A Socialist Party USA Statement LANGUAGE MATTERS, especially at times of crisis. The [...]
We live in a society where words are now expertly used to inject meaning calculated to dominate rather than inform. How can a profoundly misinformed and intellectually confused public distinguish between truth and pseudo truth? From real acts of aggression and the work of provocateurs? By Case Wagenvoord ROBERT GIBBS, the White House press secretary, [...]
Obama’s natural choice of Kagan For one thing—an important thing about such an important post—the woman is a certifiable careerist, a “pragmatist”, and compulsive “achiever” in the establishmentarian approved sense. And we know what that means when it comes to standing up for real principles. If this woman doesn’t turn out to be a disaster, [...]
When tedium is totalizing Many J-schools continue to regard PBS’ Mac Neil-Lehrer Report as the gold standard for “professional journalism” but this adoration only underscores the myopic acceptance of corporate values in the reporting of reality. Meantime, the Report continues to exude the priggish civility of those who can speak of great injuries at several [...]
The odds are always good that men in power will do evil things because there’s an established evil side to the human personality, especially when men are defending privileges. OpEd By Gaither Stewart (Rome) By pure chance two encounters occurred simultaneously: I read a reference to Aristotle’s discussion of possibility and probability in M.H. [...]
By Case Wagenvoord When a country’s past is fable, the present veers towards unreality. The past is not static. It changes as we change, as we become more perceptive with the passage of time. Often times, this change is painful as we are forced to confront the ghosts of the past we have kept hidden. [...]
