Over the years, once in a great while, I’ve been surprised to cross paths
with a journalist at a major TV outlet who actually seems willing and able
to go outside the conventional boundaries of media discourse.
The United States maintains secret prisons on ships in the ocean in order to detain people outside the reach or even the knowledge of any system of law, the better to torture the ever-living cheney out of them. Over at the Black...
In politics, as in so many other aspects of life, anger is a combustible
fuel. Affirmed and titrated, it helps us move forward. Suppressed or
self-indulged, it’s likely to blow up in our faces.
So, the Democratic National Committee has bent the rules for Senator
Clinton and effectively given her 87 delegates and Senator Obama 63 from
two states that were not supposed to be counted. That gives Clinton a
grand total of 1,580...
Something called the "GI Bill" passed both houses of Congress with large majorities in recent weeks. It really would provide educational benefits to veterans, but it's not a bill. It's an amendment. It could be introduced as a bill, pass...