It is my sincere hope that when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that an AIDS-free generation is within our sight, she was simply engaging in a bit of rose-tinted rhetoric to raise enthusiasm for World AIDS Day… Read More ›
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The Green Party: A Third Party That Comes in Fourth
Of all of the counties, in all of the battleground states in this election, there is only one who is still counting votes: Palm Beach County. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because this is the same county that played… Read More ›
Sometimes Quickly, Sometimes Slowly: The Obama and Bush Approaches to Disaster Management
One of the hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration was that their realities were oftentimes more absurd than the parodies created to mock them. Nothing Jon Stewart and his boys cooked up in a writers meeting could have been… Read More ›
Every Vote Counts, Depending on Who Counts It
“More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.” – Will Rogers I cast my ballot for the 2012 presidential election today and I have no idea where it went or if… Read More ›
Unemployment’s Below 8%: So, Are We Recovered Yet?
With the release of the September jobs report, the new number du jour that is on the tips of the tongues of the national punditry is 7.8. According to the Labor Department, the unemployment rate in America dropped to 7.8%… Read More ›
They Have To Take You: Mitt Romney and ER Healthcare
Based on his recent comments, it would appear that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports a radical overhaul of preventative healthcare in America—namely in that he wants to prevent 50 million of us from getting it. Over the past few… Read More ›
Torture Me Softly
To members of the CIA, it was known as “The Salt Pit”. For those that were shackled and beaten there, it was simply “The Dark Prison.” In actuality it was an abandoned brick factory north of Kabul that had been… Read More ›
When The Legend Becomes Fact: RNC Edition
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! – Barry Goldwater, 1964 Republican National Convention Last night I… Read More ›
If Anyone’s Gonna Be Fraudulent Around Here, It’s Gonna Be Us
“The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.” – Christopher Hitchens For being a nation that essentially founded the modern democratic republic, we’ve never been too fond of the whole “democratic” part of the equation. As… Read More ›
Imprison & Invest: Private Prisons in The Age of Incarceration
This too I know–and wise it were If each could know the same– That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim. Oscar Wilde,… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 