So the administration has their collective panties in a bunch over the New York Times story on financial transaction monitoring. The red-faced rhetoric...

For the duration of the Bush administration, the challenge to observers has been finding historical parallels, whether real or fictional. The usual suspects...

The New York Times has always been a media boogyman to many conservatives; for example, Ann Coulter famously said that her...

"Motion of non-confidence." The UK has it, as do Germany, Spain and others. About 65% of Americans...

Even before the most recent jump at the pump, the doubling of the cost of a barrel of oil led the...

In the U.S., many states prohibit convicts from voting. In Iraq, convicts are used as pawns to prop up faltering governments:

Iraq,...

It's times like this that Americans everywhere...

As if the banking industry didn't get enough of a gift with last year's corrosive Bankruptcy...

To those who share the administration's torture fetish, the following revelation will be met with yet another round of "why...

Slate's Dan Gross is one of the most insightful writers covering economics, but for his sake, "you are what you eat" had better be false. Speculating on...

Since the viral marketing explanation didn't exactly resonate as a way to explain away the suicides...

Every city likes to think that their loyalty to their hometown teams is without peer, but the bond between the city of Pittsburgh and the Steelers transcends...

When it comes to our little Boy Scout camp down at Guantanamo Bay, it is undeniable that the United States hold all the high cards—we're the guards, the...

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell (6/10/06):

"I...

President Bush (6/08/06):

Good morning. Last night in Iraq, United States...

With the news that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is in fact dead, what does Michael Berg, father of beheaded Nick Berg, have to say?:

"I...

For market-worshipping ideologues everywhere, talk of using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve [SPR] for any reason short of all out war is tantamount to Communism.

As election season gets underway, the early theme looks to be corruption, specifically which side can pin the most indictments on the other. If you happen...

A follow up on the absurdity of First Lady Laura Bush and First Drunken Daughter Barbara Bush representing...

Hollywood bashing is certainly nothing new in the political arena, it's been practiced so long on the right that no one is surprised when it creeps left...