The airwaves seethe and the fiber-optics networks thrum with right-wing attacks on Obama, many of them mean-spirited and just-this-side-of-rational. Sometimes the vitriol veers into the supernatural.
Let’s not pretend this doesn’t make a difference. What people think depends in part on what they hear and read; otherwise, none of us would bother talking or writing. I [...]
Some years ago, I spent a few emotionally rocky weeks in a city in which I used to live. There to get care in the wake of a traumatic event, I was in sore need of soothing. So, I switched on the television and tuned into the cable access station to watch the semi-weekly city [...]
I see that Barack “Let’s Bomb Pakistan” Obama, in addition to drifting rightward ever since election day, has shifted from the politics of hope to the politics of fear ever since inauguration day. He’s sounding less like Lincoln and Roosevelt and more like Bush and Cheney every day.
Terrorism — the pursuit of political aims by [...]
