Month: February 2010

When you think of a prototypically corrupt U.S. Senator, you might think of Claude Rains’s portrayal of Joseph Paine in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. But Senator Paine was beholden to a political machine, not an industry....

When the founding fathers gathered to declare independence, they were responding to consolidated power in the form of the monarchy and the church.  The system that they designed to govern the United States was intentionally...

It has to go to Ben Stein for trying to defend James O’Keefe by comparing him to phony Black Panthers.

At what point do progressives stop being Democrats’ whipped dogs and start acting like a movement capable of putting the Dems in their proper place as the party of the people?  David Sirota wrote today about...

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.McDonald’s is hoping to change the way consumers view fast food. In partnership with the E-CO2 Project, an independent U.K. consulting firm, the company is launching a three-year...