POLITICS, GOVERNMENT & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

In The Guadian UK of 18 May Naomi Wolf wrote the following: On Wednesday 16 May, at about 4pm, the republic of the United States of America was drawn back – at…

Why do self-reinvention, flip-flopping and flat out lying come so easily to Mitt Romney? Could it owe something to his religion (cult?) that he dare not speak its name that…

I probably would not bother to jump into this one were it not for the fact that my old ”friends” the Jesuits have a dog or two in the fight.…

Polls have shown that America, perhaps the most metaphysically credulous country in the world, would more likely be willing to elect a Muslim or a Mormon as their president than…

This piece was originally posted on 9.13.2005. Now that what I call ideologically-loaded “Bush Court” has already done significant constitutional damage and could very well gut or repeal The Affordable…

In several preceding essays in these pages I have, probably according to some readers, overly enthusiastically excoriated Christianity, Capitalism, and what I regard as their unholy marriage.* The user would…

If we begin with the proposition that “immigrants” is only a relevant term when there is a pre-existing, indigenous population, then anyone arriving in the Americas after the settlement of…

Maybe you saw and heard it, too. There’s a good chance you did; every other TV channel had some sort of 9-11 progamming (except the shopping channels of course—Bush told…

With every piece of compromised-to-surrender policy, the latest the “OK, I’ll grab my ankles and be your bitch if you save us from default” deal he gave weepy John Boehner,…

Another July 4 has gone into the books, the flags are rolled up, fireworks debris swept up, the cheers of “we’re No. 1,” roars of military flyovers and the hyperbolic…