February 17, 2010
New york Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Global Weirding Is Here
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Of the festivals of nonsense that periodically overtake American politics, surely the silliest is the argument that because Washington is having a particularly snowy winter it proves that climate change is a hoax and, therefore, we need not bother with all this girly-man stuff [...]
Black Helicopters Over Nashville
Never mind Sarah Palin and the tricornered hats. The tea-party movement is dominated by conspiracist kooks.
By Jonathan Kay | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Feb 9, 2010
The tea-party movement has no leader. But it does have a face: William Temple of Brunswick, Ga. For months, the amiable middle-aged activist has been criss-crossing America, appearing at [...]
February 15, 2010
New York Times Editorial
Seven Paragraphs
There are times when governments fight to keep documents secret to protect sensitive intelligence or other vital national security interests. And there are times when they are just trying to cover up incompetence, misbehavior or lawbreaking.
Last week, when a British court released secret intelligence material relating to the torture [...]
February 7, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist
New York Times
Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet
By FRANK RICH
A funny thing happened after Adm. Mike Mullen called for gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military: A curious silence befell much of the right. If this were a Sherlock Holmes story, it would be the case of the [...]
February 8, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist
New York Times
America Is Not Yet Lost
By PAUL KRUGMAN
We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.
What we’re getting instead is less a tragedy than a deadly farce. Instead of [...]
The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy
By Noam Chomsky
From: In These Times
Jan. 21, 2010, will go down as a dark day in the history of U.S. democracy, and its decline.
On that day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government may not ban corporations from political spending on elections—a decision that profoundly affects government policy, both [...]