LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT

You might recall a feature story I wrote last year on Hayward resident Nate Thornton who is one of the last living American veterans of the ...

CAN ONE HIT JOB SINK SOTOMAYOR'S CHANCES? If President Obama waits until the end of summer to nominate a Supreme Court justice for retir...

OBAMA'S NSA DESCRIBED AS MEEK IN MEETINGS President Obama's "Team of Rivals" propaganda did more to fatten book sales of D...

HOPEFULLY SHE'S PAID HER TAXES (FINGERS CROSSED) It just has to be 2nd Circuit Appellate Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Not only would she be th...

JUSTICE IS RETURNING TO HIS NEW HAMPSHIRE FARM Innocently enough, the Supreme Court press corps simply put two and two together. Justice Dav...

BLOGOSPHERE'S NEWS SENSE FAILS TO FALL FOR SENSATIONALISM When it comes to the financial livelihood of Wall Street it's better to no...

HOW CAN A REPUBLICAN STAND SUCH TIMES AND LIVE? Arlen Specter, you scoundrel! How could you? That rumble in Washington today was the ground ...

ARE THEY DANGEROUS OR SORE LOSERS? We can laugh at the apparent absurdity of those gosh darn Texas secessionists, but such talk certainly sm...

GOP ISN'T LOSING ITS CONSTITUENCY; DEMS ARE TAKING IT BACK What happens when Kansas figures out "what's the matter" with i...

If you have not read the Pulitzer Prize-winning feature article by Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times, grab a tissue and spare abou...

THE VATICAN IS IRRESPONSIBLE WITH ITS HEAD IN THE SAND The Belgian Assembly apparently does more than toss down a few Stella Artois' bet...

WITHOUT THESE ECONOMISTS THE TOUGH DECISIONS WON'T BE MADE Salon's Andrew Leonard lays out who he calls the "Cassandras" a...

SPEAKER ADDS SUPPORTS TO PLAN RECENTLY GAINING MOMENTUM With an eye towards quelling the populist anger roiling across the nation, House Spe...

BLACK PRESIDENT, ECONOMY AND VETERANS STOKE FEARS Popular culture often joked or feared for the safety of an American black president. With ...

RECOVERY WON'T RESONATE UNTIL AMERICANS ARE WORKING AGAIN Way too many journalists are jumping on the economic recovery bandwagon especi...

Protesters unfurled a banner asking President Obama's top economic aide Lawrence Summers to "We want our $$$$ back". The gruff...

DEMS HAVE FLOURISHED IN THE WEST WITHOUT TALKING GUNS Sen. Dianne Feinstein told "60 Minutes", "The National Rifle Associati...

COLUMNIST SENDS SPEAKER A NICE EASTER CARD E.J. Dionne's column in today's Washington Post sheds a quite divergent view of Speaker...

THE COLLUSION BETWEEN THE BANKS AND TREASURY IS SYSTEMIC If you weren't watching PBS this past week, then you wouldn't know a leadin...

INVOKING SECURITY CONCERNS IS A GOOD EXCUSE The managing editor at Fox News makes a good observation about the lack of news regarding Presid...

THE FALL OF THE MEDIA IS THE RISE OF THE PEOPLE Your innocuous tweet counts as "publishing." A simple text message reminding your ...

THE POSSIBILITY OF NUKES IN IRAN IS MORE IMPORTANT TO IRANIAN GOV'T. You can only judge the return of Benjamin Netanyahu to the office o...

TIME TO CANCEL THOSE TRIPS TO THE RIVIERA Say goodbye to freshly made paella , Alberto Gonzalez. Ah, those wonderful baquettes in Paris. For...

BREITBART'S COMMENTS ARE SOOOO 2008 If you write and follow politics for awhile, you'll notice both sides utilize the same tricks no...

OBAMA USES COLD WAR TACTICS TO CORNER THE KREMLIN While most of the industrialized world prepares to fix the world's economy next week i...

FDR LEGALIZED ALCOHOL IN 1933 TO CALM AMERICANS The parallels between the first 100 days of the Roosevelt presidency and that of Obama's...

CHRON'S DEMIAN BULWA AGAIN LEADS PRO-POLICE SLANT B/W COPS AND BLACKS Here's a cautionary tale of what could happen if metropolitan ...

AIG SCANDAL IS GREATLY TARNISHING THE OBAMA IMAGE OF CHANGE David Kurtz at talkingpointsmemo.com thinks the comments made by Rahm Emanuel a...

AMERICANS DEMAND ALL OF THE BONUSES RETURNED I use to know a little kid who realized bargaining from a position of power had its advantages....

REPUBLICANS ARE POISED TO TAKE UP THE POPULIST MANTLE Here's something a bit worrisome: It is now apparent President Obama failed the fi...