You’d Think They’d Take Off One Night a Week

Conservatives never miss a chance to show off how stupid they are: Today is the second annual Earth Hour, a worldwide campaign to raise awareness on the issue of climate change. At 8:30pm local time, major businesses, local and national points of interest, and individual homes will dim their lights for one...

Our first post-media presidency

During the campaign, everyone kept referring to it as Obama’s ground game. Now, mainstream media deride it as Obama’s bully pulpit. In both instances, I think they are missing the point. Team Obama’s fusion of grassroots and community organizing principles with emerging technology in an effort to...

Newsflash: Public Anger Gets Results.

Earlier this week, Der Spiegel published a sobering article about how the global economic crisis is battering the Friedmanite petri dish that is post-Soviet Eastern Europe: After joining the EU, the Baltic countries in particular made enormous progress in catching up with their Western neighbors, sometimes...

You’re a Loon, Ms. Bachmann, You Know That, Don’t You?

The Madwoman of Minnesota is flaunting her madness again: The madness continues as Michele Bachmann introduces legislation that “would bar the dollar from being replaced by any foreign currency.” What the Chinese were proposing, of course, was to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. I...

“Christian” NewsWire Attributes Montana Plane Crash to Abortion

First, here are the details of Sunday’s tragic events from some reputable sources: Kim Murphy, Maura Dolan, and David Kelly in the Los Angeles Times: Reporting from St. Helena, Calif., Redlands and Butte, Mont. — The plane that suddenly nose-dived into a cemetery in Montana this weekend killed...