Happy in Syria? I Know What You're Thinking Right Now
The video opens up on smiling laughing children. It's your normal "Happy" video -- joining videos from America, Germany, Egypt and Australia, to name a few -- but there's a slight twist to it: The...
View ArticleSgt. Bowe Bergdahl Just Told Us How to Close Gitmo (But Obama Won't Do It)
Every media person knows to ensure maximum coverage for a story you put it out at the beginning of the week, a Monday. That gives pundits five days on the job to comment and amplify it. Conversely, if...
View ArticleWhat Maureen Dowd and Everyone Needs to Know about Edible Marijuana
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd just published a piece about her bad trip from marijuana edibles. Maureen describes eating a caramel-chocolate candy bar made with marijuana in her Colorado hotel...
View ArticleWhat the News in the U.S. Gets Wrong About Denmark
Yes... that's correct: what the news in the U.S. tells you about Denmark's population being so happy truly is a load of crap, and the answers to fixing the broken U.S. social and financial system...
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Nuclear Giant Exelon Blasts Wind
Exelon's Christopher Crane wants Congress to kill a wind tax break, despite the fact the nuclear industry wouldn't be viable today without decades of federal subsidies. Corporate executives often tout...
View ArticleMy Message to Senator Dick Durbin: How About You All Quit Playing the Media...
As I sat on the set last night right before we hit air on ON THE RECORD at 7pm, I received an email note from my FNC colleague Chad Pergram about the closed door briefing on Capitol Hill that included...
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Clueless in Cairo
How Egypt's Generals Sidelined Uncle Sam Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Since September 11, 2001, Washington’s policies in the Middle East have proven a grim imperial comedy of errors and...
View ArticleAmerica... What the Hell Is Wrong With Us?
A politician who's in a tough re-election fight deleted a Twitter posting earlier today because he thought it would offend voters in his home state. I know, I know, these days...
View ArticleWhy There Is No Obama Doctrine
Think of Barack Obama's recent return to West Point at graduation time to offer his approach to an increasingly chaotic world as a bookend on an era. George W. Bush went to the Academy in June 2002 --...
View ArticleParticipatory Totalitarianism
According to the Chinese zodiac, the heavens circle around every 12 years. The Year of the Snake, the creature that sheds its skin to emerge anew, marks a time of great transformation. Indeed, for the...
View ArticleA Gentleman's Guide to Rape Culture
If you are a man, you are part of rape culture. I know ... that sounds rough. You're not a rapist, necessarily. But you do perpetuate the attitudes and behaviors commonly referred to as rape...
View ArticleThe Problem With Pakistani Attitude Towards USA
I was in Karachi when 9/11 happened. As I watched TV coverage with my cousin, he was ecstatic and visibly showed his excitement. I objected strongly to his excitement by pointing that targeting...
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Ransom for Hostages: Have We Forgotten Ollie, Fawn and Iran Contra?
Let's see if I can remember this correctly: Ronald Reagan not only agreed to pay ransom for 66 Americans being held hostage in the Mideast (Iran). It's believed he negotiated for Iran to hold the...
View ArticleA Mission to the Mind
By Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A and Laura McCulloch Abraham Lincoln, Isaac Newton, Michelangelo, Winston Churchill, Ludwig van Beethoven, Jane Pauley, Michael Phelps, J.K. Rowling, Elton John....
View ArticleObama Could Appoint a 'People's Fed' Board -- and Transform the Economy
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve was created to represent the economic sectors and portions of our population most directly affected by the central bank's actions. Instead it's comprised...
View ArticleThe Reagan Legacy at 10
The 40th President of the United States, the larger-than-life Ronald Reagan who left office 25 years ago with an impressive 63 percent approval rating among Americans, passed away 10 years ago this...
View ArticleInstead of "One Size Fits All" Justice That Hurts Communities, Let's Get...
America is a global leader on many fronts -- including incarceration. The United States is home to less than 5 percent of the world's population, but houses almost one quarter of its prisoners. These...
View ArticleLiu Bolin: The "Invisible Man" Journeys from China to the West
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. "To touch someone," Liu Bolin says in his TED talk, "an artist must exhibit not just technique, but also the artist's thinking and struggle in...
View ArticleMemo to Potential Whistleblowers: If You See Something, Say Something
Blowing the whistle on wrongdoing creates a moral frequency that vast numbers of people are eager to hear. We don't want our lives, communities, country and world continually damaged by the deadening...
View ArticleEquality Shouldn't End at State Lines
Thanks to rulings in both Oregon and Pennsylvania striking down bans on same-sex marriage, May was quite a month of joy for the loving, committed LGBT couples in those states, and for all of us who...
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