democracy and Democracy, both now dead
Tom Tomorrow is just observing. This is not political satire. Our much balleyhooed two-party system ceased to exist a while back.
Tom Tomorrow is just observing. This is not political satire. Our much balleyhooed two-party system ceased to exist a while back.
The Daily News did its tabloid thing yesterday with an hysterical front page headline ("IT'S TOLLS FOR THEE") and story screaming the news that our Mayor wants to charge tolls on the East River cro...
Wow! Holding a grudge for eighty-nine years! The NYTimes let us know this week that it has by no means forgotten its ignominious defeat over an environmental issue fought in the early years of th...
Heck, although I was an insurance underwriter for thirty years (albeit in tort liability, not health insurance), I happy to find that I'm not the only American who understands the basic principle o...
--is even worse than the smell of secrecy. The New York Daily News ain't Big Daddy. Their own newswriters, their wire services and their columnists apparently weren't swift enough to pick up on t...
Gary Trudeau looks at the Bushie pack in Doonesbury today.
At least it stayed cold. Is it possible that some day in the distant future (if a future is possible) we will look back on the period of the Cold War as one of peace and prosperity, when compared ...
The junta itself can't make it's arguments consistent, let alone believable for anyone with a mind, but the media eats it up! The White House insists it isn't "wagging the dog" to divert attentio...
Of course Woody Harrelson doesn't have the credentials of a George W or most of the patsies in government and in the commercial media, but he does seem to understand the issues. It ain't that hard...
At least someone in Washington is willing to say it. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - CIA Director George Tenet said on Thursday al Qaeda has reorganized and become as serious a threat to the United States...