Andrew Jackson was no intellectual. Sporadically educated but still a war hero and lawyer (and occasionally a slave owner and land speculato...

The Republican party has been sinking slowly into the depths of madness for almost 40 years now. An argument can be made that the problem...

Well, it's been a week or two, and the American public, with their beagle-puppy attention span, can no longer remember the little tiff b...

Mitt Romney is going to speak before the Values Voters Summit, which is another gathering of God-botherers that happens every year, this one...

It's somewhat jarring to be reading, say, the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , and stumble across the following exchange. In gay con...

OK, so Mittens exposed himself in public this week. So, we know where he stands in the fight between people and our corporate overlo...

Funny how quick they are to deny it, now that they're actually planning it... The part I find funniest? Newt Gingrich's bit. After ...

The left, including this writer, has made a career out of denouncing right-wing extremism, mainly the Tea Party and those Republicans more i...

The Republicans took the House. The Democrats held the Senate. And Obama is now f*cked. Due to the time difference, I didn’t find out the...

So, as we approach November, everybody's watching the biggest clowns - the Nazi fanboy in Ohio, the militia supporter in Alaska who ha...

For someone like me with a well-developed startle response  and a self-imposed posting deadline, the last few days in the news have been exh...

I actually wrote this blog post below when I was home in the US over the summer and fully exposed to American politics. Keep in mind that ...

In 2006, in a bipartisan vote unheard of today, the California Legislature passed AB 32, a "landmark clean energy bill that many hoped ...

No pictures today. No jokes. There'll be plenty more to come, I imagine. Today, I want to spell out what I think is happening in our cou...

True confession: I have found further evidence that I am easily distracted from serious matters by loud, fast, shiny irrelevancies. And I d...

If I never hear again that foul-mouthed bloggers killed the news media, it will be too soon. In a stunning media error, the Washington Post’...