Tonight during the evening news the Republican National Committee ran an attack ad (multiple times) that featured menacing black-and-white images of Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Patrick Leahy and other leading Democrats with the captions: "Ready to Tax" and "Ready to Spend." I was hoping the DNC or the Obama Campaign...

In any other democracy in the world the Republican Party would be toast, its prime minister tossed out, its years of governance repudiated. But not in our exceptional American form of democracy. A Republican stalwart who played a key role in implementing the agenda of George W. Bush over these...

For eight long debilitating years we have had a vice president who reminds us every time he opens his mouth that we all should quake in fear because we live in such a dangerous world with Islamic terrorists ready to devour our young the moment we let our guards down....

With his wet-blanket op-ed in today's New York Times cutely titled "The Audacity of Hype," William Safire -- who is yet to apologize to the American people for lying about the false story of Saddam Hussein's henchmen meeting in Prague with Al Qaeda operatives -- tries to deflect the acclaim...

I've always believed that George Herbert Walker Bush's appointment of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court was an example of white supremacy. Here's my reasoning: the venerable Thurgood Marshall had dedicated his life to advancing the cause of African-American civil rights in this country, (serving as the lead attorney for...

The corporate media built up the expectations for Barack Obama's speech tonight to a point at which the mainstream pundits were sharpening their scalping knives to proclaim that he didn't meet those expectations. But once again the media blowhards underestimated Barack Obama's talent, his oratorical skills, and his heart.

Hillary Clinton last night delivered one of the best political speeches I have ever heard. She touched all of the right notes that were necessary to put to rest (finally) the incessant bellowing of the chattering classes inside the corporate media about how "disunited" the Democrats are after the bloody...

John McCain came to Sacramento today. He came for a fundraiser with his fellow fat-cat Republicans. Well-healed lobbyists and donors filed past our little picket line wearing American flag lapel pins and red, white, and blue ties. It seemed that every Republican big shot who populates our beleaguered and bankrupt...

In the op-ed section of today's New York Times, Mikhail Gorbachev, in an article entitled "Russia Never Wanted a War," lays out the underlying reasons for the recent events in Georgia and the chill they have caused in U.S.-Russian relations.

Gorbachev writes:

"Russia has long been told to...

A few minutes of Googling around the voluminous hate sites on the web and we quickly discover that Jerome R. Corsi is well known for holding many "controversial" views. According to Corsi watchers, he called Islam "a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion," and referred to the Koran as "the 'software' for...

This photo was posted on August 8, 2008 on the web site of the Council of Conservative Citizens (C of CC). This kind of racism aimed at Barack Obama's candidacy for president should not be tolerated as we approach the most intense phase of the election cycle.

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Condi Rice might have had an oil tanker named after her by Chevron but she was a terrible National Security Advisor and is even worse as Secretary of State. As President George W. Bush's foreign policy tutor she botched all the warnings leading up to the September 11th attacks. She...

David Freddoso is among the young white men who rose out of the National Review-Young Republican farm league where Ronald Reagan is god and hating "liberals" is a way of life. He has written "The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate."...

We can only hope that Barack Obama is right when he tells us that the Republican smear machine will not succeed this time in distracting voters to the point of endorsing yet another George W. Bush-type disaster. "Not This Time" is Obama's familiar refrain. But with Jerome Corsi hawking his...

On Face the Nation yesterday, the right-wing pundit David Brooks offered his sage advice to the John McCain campaign: "In the short term they have to try to define him [Barack Obama] as someone who thinks he's above everyone else. And in truth, he's a kind of elusive guy. I've...

John McCain and Company are shocked, SHOCKED that their now infamous Britney Spears/Paris Hilton attack ad against Barack Obama has become a topic of speculation for its "racial overtones."

Pop Quiz (Three Questions):

1). What American political party in the mid-1980s ran ads featuring a close up of...

Germany is a nation that has had its fill of "Mission Accomplished" martial spectacles and ostentatious displays of nationalistic "glory." The Germans know it was all jingoism and propaganda. And to what else can we attribute George W. Bush's eight years of misrule but to jingoism and propaganda?

With...

It really makes the Iraq debate easy for John McCain when he throws around words like "win" and "victory" and "prevail" and "success" without really defining what they mean. A short time ago he was calling for American troops to remain in Iraq forever and that Obama was "naive" for...

In today's New York Times the Israeli academic Benny Morris, in an article fittingly entitled "Using Bombs to Stave Off War," opines that a "preemptive" nuclear conflagration in the Middle East could have some kind of positive outcome for Israel, the United States, and the world. It's a disgraceful...

David Remnick, the New Yorker magazine editor, explained the purpose of the July 21st issue's cover art, which depicts Barack Obama in Muslim garb and Michelle Obama as a black militant: "The intent of the cover is to satirize the vicious and racist attacks and rumors and misconceptions about the...