Smart Guns? They Hate 'em!
Here's the gun the "gun rights" folks don't want you to have...
View ArticleThe Choice We Face, the Debate We Must Have
I was deeply disturbed last week when US Secretary of State John Kerry, in response to criticism from former Senate colleagues, felt compelled to walk back his warning that Israel risked becoming an...
View ArticleArianna Criticizes Republicans Over Benghazi On 'Real Time With Bill Maher'
In an appearance on HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, Arianna skewered Republicans for their continued efforts to turn Benghazi into a scandal. Earlier this week, the House voted to create a new...
View ArticleMy Letter to Michelle Obama: From One Mother to Another, Help My Immigrant...
Dear Mrs. Obama, We have many things in common: we both have two children, we are minority women, we are college educated, we are United States citizens, and we want the very best for our children....
View ArticleSunday Roundup
This week, the House voted along party lines to open yet another Benghazi investigation -- adding to the 13 hearings and 50 briefings already completed. Democrats, who are considering boycotting the...
View ArticleNot Always a Happy Mother's Day
A note to moms missing their children on Mother's Day due to incarceration: Mother's Day is upon us once again, this Sunday, May 11, moms everywhere will relish the attention lavished on them by their...
View ArticleGoing Out of Our Way to Uniquely Screw People With Student Debt
America is truly an exceptional country. Along with many other Americans of all political stripes, I do believe that. I am very thankful for all the ways in which the uniqueness and exceptionalism of...
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Is Benghazi Really a Bigger Problem Than Climate Change?
LISTEN HERE: Last week, convergence on Nader's new book. This week, divergence as Matalin and Lamarche clash over party beliefs: the GOP shrugs at warnings about extreme weather though scientists...
View ArticleXi and Putin Playing Dangerous Games to Mask Domestic Problems
Nothing garners presidential approval like a good war. For Vladimir Putin, the Ukraine crisis and the annexation of Crimea have been excellent politics. In the most recent Pew Global Attitudes polling,...
View ArticleGOP Divorced From Reality on Obamacare
The GOP wants America to divorce Obamacare so badly that Republicans are willing to stoop to the tactics of prototypical evil mothers-in-law – nitpicking, backbiting, and straight up lying. Just last...
View ArticleThe Real Story Behind Rand Paul's Gun Lobbying Letter
Last week NRA members, myself included, received a letter from Senator Rand Paul, asking us to donate to The National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR), an organization which, according to its website,...
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The Three Faces of Drone War
Speaking Truth From the Robotic Heavens Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Enemies, innocent victims, and soldiers have always made up the three faces of war. With war growing more distant, with drones...
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"Best Is a Future Free of Fossil Fuels": Deval Patrick Inspires UMass (and Me)
Each spring, millions of Americans at 1,000s of High Schools and Universities sit through commencement speeches. While many are filled with overused clichés and serve only as a speed bump en route post...
View ArticleMixing Education With Politics
There's a great line, usually attributed to Rev. Gene Carlson of Wichita, about religion getting involved in politics: When you mix religion and politics, you get politics. His point was that while you...
View ArticleSoul-Searching, NSA-style
Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com It's rare to hear a government official speak in contrite tones; rarer still if that official represents the National Security Agency. Recently, however, Anne...
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Miranda Rights, "Public Safety" and the Police State
Attorneys in the Boston bombing case are jockeying with the judge over whether or not testimony garnered from Dzhokhar Tsarnaev during thirty-six hours of FBI questioning while he lay in a hospital...
View ArticleThomas Piketty and Fear of the "Full Francais"
The French economist Thomas Piketty's controversial new opus, "Capital in the 21st Century," has set off a somewhat surprising firestorm of vicious criticism and effusive praise. The political right in...
View ArticleWords and Deeds That Hurt at the Jewish Communal Table
In the aftermath of the vote by the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations to exclude J Street from the organization, I have been frustrated and angry about the state of the Jewish...
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What Is Mel Watt Waiting For?
Mel Watt, the head of the powerful Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is expected to break his silence on Tuesday in a speech to the Washington, D.C. press...
View ArticleHoward's Daily: Good Government Versus Less Government
"The problem with Howard's ideas is that they rest on the naive fiction that there can be such a thing as 'good government.' In fact, the best we can hope for is less government." So ends the critical...
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