May 20, 2013
5:14 p.m.
Here’s a 96-minute account of the historic Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954.
Enjoy!
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May 20, 2013
5:14 p.m.
Each year, roughly 800,000 people are arrested for marijuana offenses. That amounts to one arrest every 42 seconds, which represents a great strain on the criminal justice system.
The irony in all of this is that Americans overwhelmingly oppose stiff p...
May 20, 2013
11:21 a.m.
The Republican Party doesn’t often field black candidates for public office, but when it does, they’re usually wingnuts of the first order.
My favorite example is Alan Keyes, who was recruited from outside Illinois to carry the GOP banner a...
May 20, 2013
11:21 a.m.
Writing in Scientific American, Patrick Mustain imagines THIS LETTER from the food industry to consumers:
Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something...
May 20, 2013
11:21 a.m.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s detachment from reality is getting worse, as we see HERE:
While the Internal Revenue Service maintains it was not focusing on conservative groups out of political bias, Sen. Rand Paul claimed Sunday there was a “...
May 20, 2013
11:21 a.m.
James Rosen (above), who worked at WREX-TV in Rockford for a while in the 1990s, is SAID to have been the subject of a federal investigation of leaks of classified information:
When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of c...
May 19, 2013
5:19 p.m.
Most of us rabid political partisans, whether lefties or righties, take special pleasure in citing what we see as the excessive rhetoric of certain people on the other side of the spectrum.
And so it is with me when right-wingers like Republican State ...
May 19, 2013
5:19 p.m.
The RESULTS of a new CNN/ORC poll are mostly good news for President Obama.
The principal take-aways from this survey are these:
Fifty-three percent of Americans say they approve of the job the president is doing, with 45% saying they disapprove. The ...
May 19, 2013
5:19 p.m.
Stephanie Koontz, one of my favorite social historians, WARNS HERE about the potential pitfalls of nostalgia:
In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging u...
May 18, 2013
5:13 p.m.
Despite suggestions from such conservatives as Charles Krauthammer and Newt Gingrich to temper their rhetoric, more than a few Republicans these days are claiming that the so-called scandals that currently beset the Obama administration are the worst in...
