I have really been conflicted over my decision not to attend the McCain/Palin "rally" in Waukesha yesterday. I saw the clips from the event last night, and woke up this very early this morning wondering who was this guy, the angry black guy, that so moved Senator McCain with his personal attack...

The language of intolerance is not without consequences. Unfortunately, the intolerant are too weak minded to understand the consequences of their own words. So-called "conservatives", taking their cue from the "You're with us, or with the terrorists" jargon of their President...

While I am delighted that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee this fall, and genuinely awed by the historical significance of this fact, I am struggling to repress a sense of foreboding on this damp gray day. Bobby Kennedy was shot down forty years ago today, just as his drive to the Presidency...

A range of factors, including the ongoing waste of everything by you and me, global warming causing droughts, and political instability as a result of centuries of imperialist policies by the “major powers” have resulted in the current run on commodities. Everything from corn to gold is inflating in...

I should not find it ironic that the people who so freely flung around the epithet “Bush hater”, are now freely spreading hate aimed at Barack Obama. You have read this slime right here on these pages. Not just disagreement with his political positions. Not mere accusations that his promise of hope is...

Did you see that President Bush admitted that he was aware of the fact that his subordinates had authorized torture, which is a war crime? You didn't see that on the nightly news or in your newspaper? Neither did I.