One of the first ironies I have noticed about Barack Obama's victory is the inability of many liberals to follow his lead on positioning his coming progressive changes. I have yet to hear the words "democratic dominance" out Barack's mouth. ...
Government
President-elect Barack Obama ran on a detailed set of policy solutions for many of our most pressing challenges. Neoconservative pundits and an anemic news media aside, he won the support of many political moderates for the depth and breadth of...
restoring american civility
It dawned on me this morning that John McCain's campaign and the fervor it inspired was really not much different in tone and tenor than Hillary Clinton's losing bid as she pushed through to Puerto Rico. I don't blame them...
a perfect margin of victory
Very few American norms are as damaging to the healthy functioning of our republic than an over-reliance on precedent in charting our future course. We must examine past decisions to learn lessons on how we might make different choices moving...
killing precedent
That would be my first question of Henry "Hank" Paulson as he tries to railroad this country into a bad deal. Those would be quickly followed by a few others: Who's getting fired? Who's going to jail? What regulations will...
What are we getting for our 700 billion dollars?
For the last 40 years, America has lived George Orwell's worst nightmare. It was a bit more subtle than Orwell had imagined, but our domination by powerful men was no less complete. We have been fed propaganda instead of news...
In Defense of a Good Offense
I live in the Capital Hill section of northeast Washington DC. The area is a pretty diverse mix for the most part, and we have tons of people from Maryland who come through here on their way to other parts...
Angry Monkeys Driving Turbo-Charged Bullets
From 1919 to 1933, we conducted a national experiment in drug prohibition. The drug of choice at that time (besides marijuana and opium) was alcohol. The 18th Amendment made it illegal and sparked off a bloody war that only the...