| Nov 29, 2010 | Economy / BusinessI can understand why people object to a nation running up big deficits when it’s already deeply in debt. Borrowing your way out of debt is counter-intuitive. Many economists think it’s economically sound, but it’s a hard sell. I can see, kind of, why...
| Nov 8, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyIn the witty 1966 classic cult film King of Hearts, a British soldier shows up in a French village run by lunatics after they’d escaped from the local insane asylum as the German Army retreated. Given the number of electoral victories by crazies in the mid-term...
| Oct 18, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyIf life were an old-fashioned movie serial we’d be at the scene where Barack Obama is tied to railroad tracks while an oncoming train sounds in the distance. And if it were a movie, he’d escape. I’m not sure how, but at the last moment he’d...
| Sep 6, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyIncreasingly we live in a world–alas–of deliberate misrepresentation and mischaracterization. Or you could call them lies. Thank God for mainstream, fair-minded journalists like myself, who care for little but truth, justice, and setting the record...
| Aug 16, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyTea partiers get upset when you call them racists. “We’re not racists,” they yell. “We’re God-fearing Americans who don’t like Obama’s socialist, affirmative-action ways. We just want freedom from government interference in a...
