May 17, 2013
5:23 p.m.
A Facebook friend of mine has dug up THIS WONDERFUL STORY from four years ago:
Bill Nye [above], the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentati...
May 17, 2013
5:23 p.m.
One morning back in 1977, I was having coffee with a certain prominent public official (an appointee, not a politician) whose judgment in most matters I usually respected.
Our conversation eventually turned to an upcoming local election, and this guy s...
May 17, 2013
5:23 p.m.
Most Americans are not following the controversies regarding the Internal Revenue Service and the Benghazi tragedy with especially intense interest, as we see HERE:
A majority of Americans are following both the controversy over the attack on the U.S. ...
May 17, 2013
5:23 p.m.
Ordinarily, I like to know what’s going on in the world. But I’m glad I didn’t know about THIS:
During 10 days in November 1983, the United States and the Soviet Union nearly started a nuclear war. Newly declassified documents from th...
May 17, 2013
11:23 a.m.
The right-wing noise machine has strongly implied, and falsely so, that the Obama administration doctored government emails concerning the Benghazi tragedy.
In truth, however, it was the Republicans themselves who doctored the emails. And a gullible r...
May 17, 2013
11:23 a.m.
It’s probably safe to say that many Americans think the current “scandal” at the Internal Revenue Service is about who has to pay how much in taxes.
But that’s not the case, as Steven Rattner MAKES CLEAR:
One of the bigger iron...
May 17, 2013
11:23 a.m.
The image above, which I ran across on Facebook this morning, is based on an INTERVIEW of three months ago with actor Bruce Willis.
And, of course, it’s pure bunk.
Willis clearly doesn’t understand what the Second Amendment really means. I...
May 17, 2013
11:23 a.m.
The Washington Post editorial board, which is not always as liberal as some conservatives seem to think it is, makes good sense in THIS CASE:
Republicans and conservative media obsessed with what they regard as the Obama administration’s scandalous cov...
May 16, 2013
5:22 p.m.
Media critic Bob Somerby (above), a liberal, is out with a snarky attack on MSNBC pundits Chris Matthews and Lawrence O’Donnell for their ignorance of the details regarding the so-called Benghazi scandal.
There’s no way I can do justice to ...
May 16, 2013
5:22 p.m.
I don’t know that I fully agree with Ezra Klein on THIS STUFF, but he’s one of the brightest young pundits around, and what he says merits consideration:
Things go wrong in government. Sometimes it’s just bad luck. Sometimes it’s rank incom...
