The next nut who speaks of the great job the Unelected One is doing with the "war on terror" should be committed. The blast that killed nearly 200 people on the Indonesian resort island of Bali t...

Enough is sometimes more than enough. The keepers of St. Paul's Chapel across the street from the World Trade Center site say that they don't know what to do about the improvised shrine visitors h...

We're long overdue. There is simply no rational explanation for our continuing to treat health care as a commodity like, oh, say, a new car or a flat-screen tv. Marcia Angell's Op-Ed piece in the...

I feel apologetic for the limited number of my postings lately, so I'm referring you all to Barry for great stuff, both political and everything that ain't.

Two prizes were awarded today. Bush won the booby prize. Carter won the the real one. If there is an award the opposite of the Nobel Peace Prize it would be that handed to George W. Bush, his en...

So asks the public interest site, TomPaine.com. Saddam Hussein is an imminent threat OR heÂ’s just a convenient political distraction wielded by the White House. Whichever way you see it, you mu...

www.antiwar.com describes it, "GI Joe Commandeers Barbie's Dream House." From the J.C. Penny catalog. Seriously! Just whose family home are they imagining trashed by our hero? Is it in Nablus?...

In spite of the direction in which the caption seems to point, it's not about politics this time. Sub-headline: "Bikes told to take a hike" San Diego in my experience is one of the most fitness-...

This is an excerpt, from an online excerpt, from Chapter 13 of The Iron Heel by Jack London (1908). The general strike was the one great victory we American socialists won. On 4 December the Amer...

For the life of me (and for the lives of so many who died needlessly in Southeast Asia on both sides), I'll never understand how the media can describe the Democrats' "lesson of Vietnam" as the res...