Byron Williams: Strict Ideology Wilts Under the Weight of Reality
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 31st, 2010 4:46 am by HL
Byron Williams: Strict Ideology Wilts Under the Weight of Reality
Kentucky’s Republican nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat, Rand Paul, in his best Ayn Rand objectivist viewpoint, concluded private businesses should have had the…
Jessica Valenti: Sarah Palin’s Fake Feminism
Palin’s sisterly speechifying is part of a larger conservative move to woo women by appropriating feminist language. Just as consumer culture tries to sell “Girls…
Ed Markey: BP ‘Lying Or Incompetent’ About Scope Of Gulf Oil Spill
Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of a House energy committee investigating the oil spill, slammed BP’s response to the disaster in an appearance on “Face The…
Saul Friedman: Take the Offensive Against Social Security Killers: Here’s How
It’s past time that Social Security’s advocates, friends and beneficiaries quit playing defense for the single most popular American program, and take the offensive…
Colin Powell: Oil Spill Is ‘Beyond The Capacity’ Of BP To Solve, Military Might Have Role
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell suggested on Sunday that the United States military has a role to play in helping contain the massive oil…