Political Commentary
- Robert Scheer: Obama can't knock the hustle
- Robert Scheer
- How did we end up with such smart scoundrels? Even after it was known that Jamie Dimon's bank blew more than $2 billion on the same suspect derivatives trading that has bankrupted the world's economy, Barack Obama still had praise for the intellect o... Full story
- Amy Goodman: Veterans just say no to NATO
- Amy Goodman
- Veterans of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan are now challenging the occupation of Chicago.
Last week, NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is holding the largest meeting in its 63-year history there. Protests and rallies will confro... Full story
- Peter Funt: Hillary vice president speculation won't die
- Peter Funt
- If Julia Louis-Dreyfus can be "Veep," then why not Hillary Clinton?
The notion has been kicked around in the media for more than a year, and pooh-poohed by both the secretary of state herself and the Obama campaign, but as the 2012 race heats up the... Full story
- Steven Greenhut: Gov. Brown's 'honest' budget claims are bunk
- Steven Greenhut
- Gov. Jerry Brown's "Moonbeam" shtick has long passed its expiration date, taking about as long to go from "cute" to "annoying" as it did for Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Terminator" references.
On Monday, in announcing that the state's budget deficit ba... Full story
- Thomas Sowell: Is the war on race being censored?
- Thomas Sowell
- When two white newspaper reporters for the Virginian-Pilot were driving through Norfolk, and were set upon and beaten by a mob of young blacks — beaten so badly that they had to take a week off from work — that might seem to have been new... Full story
- Joe Gandelman: Mitt Romney's definition problem
- Joe Gandelman
- America's 2012 presidential election has now officially entered its "English Class" stage. On Election Day they'll get a pop quiz to see how well the national voting class learned the teachers' definitions. Top grade goes to the teacher whose definit... Full story
- Ann Coulter: A career in 'public service' pays well
- The real class warfare in this country isn't rich vs. poor, it's government employees vs. we, the taxpayers, who pay their salaries.
Working for the government is supposed to be a trade-off: You can't be fired and don't have to exert yourself, but y... Full story
- Mike Reagan: Businesses must take a stand
- Mike Reagan
- Sheep and chickens.
That's what America's greatest corporations have become.
Whether it's in California or nationally, it's the same sad story.
America's best and biggest companies -the banks, the energy corporations, the computer giants - are ref... Full story
- Thomas D. Elias: Hydrogen highway fail smell test
- Millions of dollars in "hydrogen highway" grants by a state commission are drawing cries of favoritism and collusion as they seem to guarantee that most refueling stations for the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles due to hit the road by 2017 will be owned ... Full story
- Tina Dupuy: Why gay marriage freaks out GOP
- The future is always a dystopia and the past is always better than this mess we live in right now. That's if literature has any ability to tell us about ourselves. Stories about the future: Forewarning. Stories about the good ol' days: Heartening. So... Full story
