I began to ask, “If I express my First Amendment freedoms – And Officer Manni interjected, “You’ll probably be arrested.”

The rich are different now because the elites who spent four centuries sucking the South dry and turning it into an economic and political backwater have now vanquished the more forward-thinking, democratic Northern  [more...]

A piece in today’s Washington Post illustrates how bizarre and unfair the federal tax structure is – and it’ll just get more unfair when Bush’s tinkering is done. Consider the following two  [more...]

And the TV ads have begun. Dubya has, as we expected, rolled out commercials that feature September 11 imagery and claim that the country is stronger and safer since he’s been president. Um… strangely, I  [more...]