Reprise: On 8 July we published an homage to the Left’s Rottweiller Keith Olbermann, the right went apoplectic as the article had 300,000 hits in 4 hours.
Keith is my kind of guy. Creative, completely unmanageable, he says what he feels in the moment and wears his outrage like his very large heart on his 6’ [...]

 
President Obama is being blamed for causing then disrupting the USA far right Tea Party taxation protests (sponsored by Lipton, the only true winner today?). The protests harkened back to the Boston Tea Party of 1773 and appear to be massive duds thudding their way across the country. What was most funny were the fringe [...]

 
 
Stan Greenberg has advised former President Clinton, former UK PM Tony Blair, Nelson Mandela, Israel’s Ehud Barak and others. He is one of those political lions inspired during the Bobby Kennedy era to join politics and who provides a lot of wisdom for the taking if you are willing to listen. His new book ‘Dispatches [...]

by Denis Campbell
“What will be the next thing that challenges us? That makes us work harder and go farther? You know, when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century. Surely, we can do it again. As we did in the time when our eyes looked towards the heavens, [...]

With 90-days to go, Swiftboating Season has begun in earnest as charges and counter-charges by each candidate’s camp of injecting race into the election turned the current US Presidential race into that of a popularity contest for high school class president. No. I must apologise. That characterisation demeans the thousands of young students who prepare [...]

338,000 people voted to assign 26 delegates or .6% of total delegates in play and captured the media spotlight for a week as the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton steel cage match went another breathless round, while reddest of Republican states Mississippi, ignored the personal campaigning of Vice President Dick Cheney as the Democrat Travis Childers won [...]