Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the rabidly anti-gun Violence Policy Center, claims that guns are unregulated for safety. What he really means, though, is that he believes they have become far too capable to be entrusted to civilian hands.
One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, & it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven't America's old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network ...
Today, McCarthy’s heirs are more slick and glib than he ever was, yet their fundamental methods are the same. When Elizabeth Cheney, William Kristol and their media friends slander Justice Department attorneys as the “Al Qaeda 7” and malign the “Department of Jihad,” they are engaging in the smear tactics that became synonymous with McCarthy.
In his balanced, and thus all the more disturbing, history of the CIA, Tim Weiner tells how an agency intended to inform the President about the world became so mired in cloak and dagger politics that the US now lacks the intelligence it needs to operate effectively on the world stage.
Some say showing grisly photos and videos of servicemen in distress -- or dying -- violates an unwritten code. But the fact is, those people are serving in our name.
Do you care about America? And the good old days? Well, you SHOULD. So, if you don't, here's a quick rundown.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told listeners this week that hewould "go to Costa Rica" if the Democratic health-care reform plan ispassed and enacted. Liberal bloggers greeted the threat with frenzieddelight — urging Limbaugh to make good on his promise — while theirexasperated conservative counterparts came to Limbaugh's defense.
Much of the past public diplomacy effort focused on America's own image, on how Americans are seen by others. But today, in the war of ideas, our core task is not how to fix foreigners' perceptions of the United States but how to isolate and reduce the threat of violent extremism. In other words, it's not about us.
Tom Friedman explains we should all forget about the death and suffering we caused because it's all working out.
I'll say it again: The party of Palin and Limbaugh can win in 2010 -- but not in 2012, and beyond
Come November, the president and his party may find themselves succeeding most by failing the least.
Let's face it. Words really are nothing more than sounds that east coast, big city, lesbian poets make in coffee houses to get people to snap their fingers in agreement.
John McCain, who spent millions of taxpayer money chasing after baseball players he believed were taking steroids, has once again buckled under pressure from the real distributors of steroids and other illegal substances—the nation’s supplement makers.
A post by Jesse Ventura has been removed from the Huffington Post for violating a policy against spreading conspiracy theories. Considering that the post identifies Ventura as the author of a book called Conspiracy Theories, you'd think HuffPo would have known what to expect from the former Minnesota governor. Apparently Not.
A new Democratic poll claims Democrats are losing the Terrorism/civil liberties debate to Dick Cheney.
I am neither sympathetic toward nor inclined to help sexual offenders. But we appear to be piling on, so that those who successfully change their thinking and their behavior might never get going again. When so many politicians, including the governor, exploit an issue such as this, that's when I really get the creeps.
Obama's stumbles atop the high-wire of running the federal government has created perhaps the greatest danger to his presidency, and they are oddly reminiscent of the misguided practices which tripped up his predecessor.