The Bully’s Pulpit

Yup – you knew it was coming. Well, it’s been a non-stop exercise for years, this naming of things for Ronald Reagan. I can’t for the life of me figure out why these people think he was some kind of  [more...]

I can’t quite understand the right wing (well, that’s the understatement of the year, isn’t it?). They use terrorism as their big issue, trumpeting how concerned they are for our safety. Then they turn  [more...]

Spin really only works if you don’t think too hard. The Bush gang keeps saying, and now it’s been picked up by news outlets, that Bush was the first president to gain a majority of votes since 1988. The  [more...]