Americans don’t care to have a wimp in the White House. They’ll take almost any outlandish vulgarity from their commander in chief and give him a positive job-rating. But wimpishness? No. Until Obama, the last…
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It’s been an active year so far in the rhetoric of nuclear disarmament. First the “nuclear posture statement” of the Obama administration put out in early April. Then the non-proliferation meetings, then the START negotiations.…
Sexual politics command passions in American political life far more powerful than those currently focused on Wall Street bankers or on BP. By conventional measures Elena Kagan should sail through her nomination by President Obama…
Last week, the president warned a graduating class against a few gadgets and toys, iPods, iPads, Xboxes and PlayStations, where “information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of…
Jeffrey St. Clair contributed to this story. With the impending departure from the U.S. Supreme Court of Justice John Paul Stevens at the age of 89, we lose one of the nation’s last substantive ties…
This week: Mendo's House of Horrors, Allman on KMUD, Gingrich's socialist fantasies and much more...
There’s America the mythical, with the White House Easter Egg Roll scheduled last Monday and activities, in the words of the White House press release, designed to “encourage children to lead healthy and active lives…