Month: July 2011

It would be nice if I could treat the new species of Republican like a scientist would treat a newly discovered species. Rather than fighting some variation on the badger or the weasel or the tasmanian devil, I’d just like...

Yes, the Senator from the great state of Oklahoma has decided to save America with a Nine Trillion Dollar Deficit Reduction Plan to be unveiled tomorrow. Guess what’s in it? Among the proposed cuts in Coburn’s plan...

I’m thinking that unexplained deaths of News Corporation whistleblowers aren’t going to help make the story go away. It’s pretty rare for someone in their mid-forties to drop dead. And the timing couldn’t...

Even Politico is now writing in panic-stricken tones about how unhinged the House Republicans have become.

First the number of wildfires this winter and spring were unusually high. Then the tornadoes and the extreme storms that hatched them were unusually numerous and destructive. Now a whole lot of people across the US of A are...