by Charley James
According to five clinical psychiatrists who describe themselves as being politically aware, Joe Lieberman’s behaviour over the last few weeks of the Senate health care debate reveals numerous signs that he is increasingly “unbalanced.”
All five caution that, while it is difficult to make a specific diagnosis without seeing a patient in their office, [...]

What the Great Depression and two World Wars could not humble, we’re now supposed to believe has been brought to its knees by fibre optic cable and hi-speed Internet access? The former Bush Administration is not the only group guilty of revisionist history. Newspapers, magazines and book publishers die off weekly by the dozens globally [...]

By Denis Campbell
It was a Page 11 story. STILL racially segregated proms  exist in the deep USA South. It barely rated a whisper. Perez Hilton getting punched by the Black Eyed Peas manager and the crisis in Iran led the news. All sides said in Georgia said the prom situation was “normal because their parents [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
Fuming About Hume
What delicious irony — Brit Hume bitching about blogger partisanship.And then thanking rightwingers Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center “for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don’t know what we would have done [...]

 
by Charley James
In a devastatingly critical examination of the narco-state formerly known as Afghanistan, the New York Times’ Dexter Filkins today documents case after case of wide spread corruption on a massive scale in the Afghan government, including officials ranging from low-level, local bureaucrats right up to the brother of President Hamid Karzai. Filkins shows [...]

by Charley James
As a progressive, one of the things that I appreciate about MSNBC’s evening line-up is that although its people have a liberal point-of-view, they stick to actual facts rather than slide down into the slimy half-truths and outright lies that Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the other on Fox’s right wing mouthpiece network [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Gordon Brown knows quid pro quo. 
He sat quietly in waiting for 12-years as his would-be mentor Tony Blair stayed vainly in power much too long and frittered away Labour’s public standing in a series of dramatic pratfalls, the biggest being a huge backlash for being a loyal Bush lapdog for years over Iraq. [...]

by Sharon Kyle
Shortly after the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, a slew of reports hit the Internet assessing the VP candidate’s performance. Try as I might, I was hard pressed to find a single report that looked favorably on Palin’s delivery. Slate’s Christopher Beam said that Palin resembled, “a high-schooler trying to BS her way through [...]

 
by Charley James
Here we go again. 
As the Bush administration did with the Patriot Act and Iraq War resolution, Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke spent today trying to hustle Congress into new territory using the familiar administration tactic of hysteria. Fortunately, this time it looks as if more than a few members have read the fine [...]

 
- by Charley James
On Today in 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech. Appearing on flickering, black-and-white sets across America, his wife seated next to him like the stage prop she’d play for the rest of Nixon’s life, he denied allegations of [...]