Week before last, while I was raging about the pompous, spoiled teabaggers, someone said to me, “Let that stuff go. It’s just background noise. It’s unimportant and not worth your... Read more >>

I. The Free Market is the Lord thy God, and thou shalt have no other gods before it, except when doling out no-bid contracts, tax breaks, and subsidies to thy rich cronies.  II. Thou shalt make... Read more >>

We have been close friends with Laura Ling and her family for over a decade. So when we heard almost three weeks ago that Laura and her colleague Euna Lee, while reporting on a story on the North... Read more >>

I read with amusement about outrage expressed over approximately $165 million AIG paid as bonuses to executives responsible for destroying their own company.  Although this represents less than... Read more >>

They are now revealing the results and findings of the Saddam hearings. Here is only an excerpt of the article in its entirety. I was asked once what I thought of the fact that WMD’s were never... Read more >>

Dear EarthTalk: How can the new Obama administration and/or Congress undo the many anti-environmental actions the Bush administration undertook over the last eight years, including the obstruction of... Read more >>

There seems to be an overwhelming amount of liberals on this site, and that’s just fine because that is what makes America great. But to all of you who show a great lack of support in our... Read more >>

Alan Greenspan characterized this economic crisis as the worst he’s experienced in his lifetime, which was almost immediately disputed by John McCain assuring us, “The fundamentals of our... Read more >>

Having just watched the documentary “Bush’s War” on Frontline, it took little for me to believe the allegation in Pulitzer-prize winning author Ron Suskind’s book, The Way of... Read more >>

We all know President Bush can’t wait to say “Adios” to the White House. He’s had to endure years of international travel, bad hair days on C-SPAN, and the constant headaches... Read more >>