The B Word
by Paul Krugman
O.K., here it comes: The unthinkable is about to become the inevitable.Last week, Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary, and John Lipsky, a top official at the International Monetary Fund, both suggested that public funds might be needed to rescue the U.S. financial system. Mr. Lipsky insisted that he wasn’t talking about a bailout. But he was. |
Smearing Obama
by Ari Berman
He's a Muslim. He was sworn into office on the Koran. He doesn't say the Pledge of Allegiance. His pastor is an anti-Semite. He's a tool of Louis Farrakhan. He's anti-Israel. His advisers are anti-Israel. He's friends with terrorists. The terrorists want him to win. He's the Antichrist. |
Intrigue: Novak suggests GOP operative behind Spitzer fall
by John Byrne
Was a political operative behind the fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer?That's the suggestion in a Sunday column by conservative columnist Robert Novak. A Republican operative, he's found, predicted the governor's fall specifically -- several months in advance. |
President Weakens Espionage Oversight
by Charlie Savage
Almost 32 years to the day after President Ford created an independent Intelligence Oversight Board made up of private citizens with top-level clearances to ferret out illegal spying activities, President Bush issued an executive order that stripped the board of much of its authority.0314 14 |
Why Did Spitzer Do It, You Ask? Why Wouldn't He?
by Russ Wellen
How could Eliot Spitzer be so stupid? What made him risk everything he worked and stood for? How could he betray his wife, his children, and the citizens of New York, not to mention idealists everywhere?We've got this whole thing backwards. The more relevant -- and realistic -- question is: How could he have been anything but that stupid? |
Beyond peace
by Robert Jensen
It has long been a staple of the antiwar movement that there can be no meaningful peace without justice on a global scale. Those of us living in the First World, especially in the United States, cannot pretend to be working for peace unless we also are working for a more just and equitable distribution of the world's resources. |
Unapologetic Apologetics: Afrocentricity for Dummies (and other Conservatives)
by Min. Paul Scott
Afrocentricity has long been a dirty word in America. Its very utterance conjures up images in the minds of many white folks of a mob of wild eyed, spear welding, black militants storming the village and pillaging and ravaging everything in sight. This fear has been exacerbated by the controversy over Senator Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and his "Afrocentric Liberation Theology." Not to mention the pictures that "mysteriously" started poppin' up in email boxes, a few weeks back, featuring the senator decked out in his Kenyan garb. |
Clinton's Child-Health Hype
by Robert Parry
A centerpiece of Hillary Clinton’s case for her candidacy – that she rebounded from the disaster of her health-care plan in 1994 to help enact a popular state-by-state program for children’s health insurance three years later – looks to be largely a fabrication. |
Hillary Whines to the Refs
by Cenk Uygur
The Republicans have made a high art out of whining to the refs for the last several decades. It goes something like this: "The media is liberal. They hate us. They won't be fair to us. Boo hoo. You better not write anything bad about us otherwise you prove that you are liberal and unfair." |
The Wright Stuff
by Gregg Gordon
The TV pundits are breathless again. The latest kerfuffle concerns some allegedly anti-American statements made by Barack Obama's pastor, Rev, Jeremiah Wright, in a couple of sermons over the past few years, and it threatens to torpedo the Democratic frontrunner's campaign. |
Stop Loss: Winter Soldier, Part III
by Mark Biskeborn
Emotional numbness, flashbacks, nightmares…self-esteem evaporates, jail time, criminal charges, thoughts of suicide…suicide.When the soldiers die after combat, after discharge…after they’ve lived on the streets homeless or at home mindless…they are not counted as casualties. A hose, a rope around the neck and hanging from the garage rafters...a round in the head…needle in the arm. Combat doesn’t leave them until they can shut it off. |
I WAS MCG AND WIFE'S THREE-WAY SEX STUD: EX-DRIVER
by Jeane Macintosh
A former driver and aide to former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey yesterday made the bombshell claim that Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay - because he was the other man in bed with them.In an explosive interview with The Post, the McGreeveys' self-professed man in the middle, Teddy Pedersen, gave explicit details of three-way sex romps that he claimed to have had with the now-divorcing duo, starting during their courtship and continuing into the marriage. |
Zogby Poll: U.S. Wants McCain to Answer the Phone
by Zogby.com
The recent Hillary Clinton campaign advertisement asking who Americans want answering the phone in the White House when a crisis erupts at 3 a.m. has sparked a national debate about which candidate would best handle such a phone call. But while the ad was designed to boost the Clinton candidacy, likely voters nationwide say they would feel more secure having Republican John McCain answering the call of a crisis, a new Zogby International telephone poll shows. |
A Church Under Attack Says "No" to the Political Smears
by John Nichols
Those who seek to discredit Barack Obama by bashing his former pastor are not just attacking the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., they are attacking Trinity United Church of Christ and its highly successful ministry.On Palm Sunday, the Trinity community responded with a statement issued by the Chicago church's current pastor, the Rev. Otis Moss III. |
