Fiscal Cliff Fictions: Let’s All Agree to Pretend the GOP Isn’t Full of It

I can’t even imagine what is going through their heads, especially the far right contingent. There is no compelling reason for the state to restrict this sort of freedom, there is nothing in the constitution about  [more...]

Well, this is hardly surprising — after more than a decade of Republican rule in Congress and more than six years of the Bush presidency, an era marked by the squandering of a record surplus and then an exploding  [more...]

I just saw a bit of George Bush’s non-apology mea culpa from yesterday, where he said that his assertion to “bring it on” may have been “misinterpreted” in other countries. He struck me as  [more...]