Category: Obama

By Jill McLaughlin    What do you suppose it means when Obama asks us to look forward, not backwards? I don’t know about you but looking long and hard at the present…

By Margaret Kimberley  George W. Bush recently reared his ugly head while promoting his obligatory presidential memoirs. The sight of the man who stole the 2000 presidential election brings back many sad memories….

By Debra Sweet W. is circling the country, and Barack Obama circling the globe over the last two weeks, each selling some dangerous fiction.  I see that W’s book is selling well,…

By Andy Worthington  On national security issues, there are now two Americas. In the first, which existed from January to May 2009, the rule of law flickered briefly back to life after…

By Kenneth J. Theisen  Justice and accountability for the crimes of the Bush regime and the Obama administration have been denied once again this week by Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ). On November…

 By Chris Floyd  The Nobel Peace Laureate Barack Obama, who in his prize-claiming speech boldly claimed the mantle of Mahatma Gandhi, has been visiting India. And why has he made this pilgrimage…

By Kenneth J. Theisen The recent elections were a resounding defeat for the Democrats and President Obama. Mainstream political pundits are now engaged in post-mortem analysis with many claiming that Obama and…

How can evidence of the culprits simultaneously be "mounting" and "elusive"? By Glenn Greenwald The New York Times, October 31: As investigators on three continents conducted forensic analyses of two bombs shipped…

Listening to most Democrats is akin to a form of auditory torture. By Margaret Kimberley Increasingly, the Democratic Party is a near-empty vessel. Democrats “look down their noses at Tea Partiers with…

By Chris Floyd   If ever I am tempted by the siren songs of my tribal past as a deep-fried, yellow-dawg Democrat, and begin to feel any faint, atavistic stirrings of sympathy for…