Month: September 2010

It should be obvious that people are more likely to commit acts of terrorism if they think that their religious leaders approve of them and/or that they will be pleasing to God. That’s one reason why the teachings of Saudi...

In 1971 Lewis F. Powell  Jr. urged conservatives to retake command of public discourse by “financing think tanks, reshaping mass media and seeking influence in universities and the judiciary.” In the coming...

Yes, it ought to go without saying that it is pretty rare in modern times for one party to control as many as sixty seats in the U.S. Senate. And that means that progressive solutions are impossible most of the time. A lot of...

Cross-posted at WinningProgressive In their recent “pledge” to drive up the national debt and return to the failed economic policies of the Bush Administration, Republicans pretended to be outraged by the continued...

You know, this is the kind of stuff that Valerie Plame was working on when Scooter Libber, Karl Rove, and Richard Armitage decided to blab about her.