The epic tennis match that just finished on Court 18 at Wimbledon was a genuine work of art crafted by two athletes playing at the top of their game. The statistics are overwhelming, in part because of the epic length of the match... well over 200 aces, more than 160 in… Read full post »

The Apple tablet should be an intensely user-friendly device that achieves a paradigm shift in the way we deal with information. That sounds big, but Apple is well-equipped to do this, even by just making a few key upgrades to what it has already made possible with its laptops and touch-sensitive… Read full post »

At the end of Barack Obama's first year in office, there is controversy over the nature and extent of his accomplishments, and even some allies and supporters appear to have forgotten the atmosphere of multidirectional crisis in which Obama took office. What's more, the steady decline in Obama's appr… Read full post »

In a bizarre interview with William Shatner, on his show "Raw Nerve", Rush Limbaugh argued that there is no "morally superior aspect" to the question of the right to healthcare and suggested that it is entirely fair that if someone cannot afford healthcare, they should not have it. 

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With new regulatory restrictions on predatory lending practices, including constraints on the freedom of banks to raise interest rates to unsustainable levels, major banks have told federal regulators that they will be hiking interest rates and slashing credit limits for millions of customers, even w… Read full post »

School taxes are soaring, but schools are losing funding. States are going bankrupt and teachers are being threatened with mass layoffs. Property taxes are high, but property values are falling, and banks won't refinance and won't make new loans. The federal government is working to foster economic r… Read full post »

Capitalism is “survival of the fittest”… capitalism is rooted in the idea of merit; everyone should be compensated according to his or her contribution (to the common good?)… capitalism is about the movement of capital; the more it moves, the richer everyone gets… cap… Read full post »

Major new climate legislation is pending before the United States Congress. The bill has been called the most important legislation ever to be voted on by the US House of Representatives, and has been the cause of intense policy negotiations among supporters, opponents and legislators. The League of… Read full post »

The Bush administration made a name for itself finding ways to obscure information about its activities by claiming the right to "state secrets" under the "sources and methods" rule, protecting active intelligence operations. The entire scope of the "enhanced interrogations" regime was justi… Read full post »

Supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi allege the official results are electoral fraud, and accuse Pres. Ahmedinejad of an effective "coup d'état". Such language has led some to believe the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i has been pressured by other political heavyweights t… Read full post »

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamene'i, who had already declared the victory of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad fair and legitimate, and most importantly, final, has agreed to investigate allegations the vote was rigged. He reportedly met yesterday with opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousav… Read full post »

Budgets are planned for 5 to 10 years into the future. They include projections about what spending on programs enacted or expanded or frozen or cut back in the next year will look like as trends out into the future. To understand where the current deficit projections come from, you have… Read full post »

David Letterman joked that Sarah Palin's "daughter" (he never said 14-year-old or her name) was "knocked up by Alex Rodriguez". The joke was in poor taste, clearly, but that might be why comedians don't carry the title "reverend" before their names. The joke was (let's all be honest here) about A-Rod… Read full post »

Rush Limbaugh has crossed the line into the worst kind of vile slander, claiming that the man who murdered a security guard at the Holocaust Museum, yesterday in Washington, DC, is "a leftist". Limbaugh vehemently professed the belief that James Von Brunn held views he had acquired as a res… Read full post »

Former vice president Dick Cheney told a gathering at the National Press Club on Monday that Saddam Hussein had no ties to al Qaeda and no link to the attacks of 11 September 2001. He had previously been a committed proponent of intelligence reports (never published) he claimed demonstrated such a… Read full post »

In 2001, Sonia Sotomayor delivered a speech to the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, entitled "A Latina Judge's Voice". It was published in the Spring 2002 issue of Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and has been reproduced by The New York Times this month online. A quote taken from… Read full post »

Former VP Dick Cheney has been vehemently and persistently advocating for the continuation of abusive interrogation techniques the Bush administration called "enhanced interrogation techniques" and which many military and intelligence officials, Constitutional law scholars, and members of Congress, s… Read full post »

RNC chair Michael Steele has now taken his most aggressive step to date to illustrate the comprehensive intellectual and moral bankruptcy of his party. Staging a smear campaign against Pres. Obama, saying he is part of a "blame America first" anti-American conspiracy, in a mass-mailing meant to terri… Read full post »

If you're afraid that same-sex marriage will endanger your marriage, your marriage is already in trouble. If your husband is foaming at the mouth about the 'gathering storm' of same-sex marriage and the likelihood that it will do away with the 'American way of life' and therefore your marriage, you s… Read full post »

Bobby Jindal's official Republican response to Barack Obama's address last night was nothing short of a startling, clumsy, shameful attempt to hijack the ideas and the achievements of Barack Obama. One by one, he listed priorities his party has neglected or fought against for decades, each of which O… Read full post »