Kimberly Guilfoyle, former first lady of San Francisco, arguing that everyone in Berkeley is fabulously wealthy and has too much free time.


Roger Domal, the vice president for eastern ad sales at Fox "News", quoted in the New York Times:

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You can take it with a grain of salt -- convicted influence-peddler Jack Abramoff, who greased the wheels of Republican government with cash during the Bush years, is trying to rehabilitate himself.

But he's certainly telling the truth when he says:

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by Richard B. Simon

The entire purpose of the Tea Party was to cripple this country's move to a new energy economy.

The old powers in oil, coal, and even timber (and note that among the biggest Tea Party funders, the Koch Brothers, profit in most of these old-guard sectors of… Read full post »

by Richard B. Simon FOX "News" commentator Juan Williams -- late of National Public Radio -- says in this video that the Republican field for 2012 is weak, and that the only one with enough charisma to go up against Obama is Palin -- but she is not…

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by Richard B. Simon

FOX "News" commentator Juan Williams -- late of National Public Radio -- says in this video that the Republican field for 2012 is weak, and that the only one with enough charisma to go up against Obama is Palin -- but she is not on the…

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by Richard B. Simon

Apparently, there is some sort of uproar over National Public Radio's decision this past week to fire "analyst" Juan Williams, after Williams -- on Bill O'Reilly's show on Fox "News" -- admitted to becoming nervous when he sees Muslims in religious garb on an airplane.

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by Richard B. Simon

The shallow analysis of Presidential speeches by those paid big money to do so is amazing and shameful -- and damaging to our national discourse. Don't any of the people who are paid to opine on Presidential addresses actually read them?… Read full post »

Richard B. Simon

May 3, 2010

The most interesting story about the "BP oil spill" in the Gulf of Mexico was a piece in the LA Times over the weekend that provided a pretty convincing explanation for what may have happened.

As it turns… Read full post »

by Richard B. Simon

The Republican strategy is clear.

The government of the United States of America, with the Executive and Legislative branches in Democratic hands, is actually working to solve major problems that face the country, its people -- and all people. If the health… Read full post »

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by Richard B. Simon

President Barack Obama's first nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, has triggered the predictable controversy that every Supreme Court nominee triggers in this splintered age.

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by Richard B. Simon

From analysis of Cheney's "national security speech" -- really an attempt to shield himself from prosecution for war crimes -- a few things become clear.

The first is that, assuming that Cheney wrote this speech and is acting as an independent operator (rather than as unleas… Read full post »

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A Report from the Inauguration of President Barack Obama



by Richard B. Simon
January 23, 2008


We streamed toward the National Mall from all across the frozen city. At 8 am, the crowds were still thin by the Washington Monument, but closer to the Capitol, the buses had begun to arrive, and the str
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Richard B. Simon

Last weekend, both the New York Times Editorial Board, likely under the influence of Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman -- and then Friedman himself -- called for a new federal tax on a gallon of gasoline.

They're right -- and $2 per gallon is the right number.

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Watch this video, designed to air against Obama's half-hour infomercial tonight.

 

It uses the now-classic race-coded, fear-elevating, psychology-manipulating propaganda tactics we've come to expect from team Bush.

First, you'll see -- at :06, the words "THE TRUTH" flash, as a still of O…

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The collapse of the global finance system is scary -- but it is also very exciting. We are clearly at the end of the First Industrial Age, and at the threshhold of a new era. The choices we make now as a civilization will determine the fate of humanity.

The First Industrial… Read full post »