On Tuesday, Congress is voting on the renewal of three key provisions of the Patriot Act. There is nothing patriotic about the Patriot Act, unless you define patriotism as the passivity of citizens giving up their own civil liberties for the illusion of “security” under the constant intrusive eyes of an Orwellian Big Brother government. [...]
It’s official: Keith Olbermann has found a new cable home. After a day of setting the entire liberal Twitterverse all a quiver with anticipation, The former MSNBC host has announced his future plans. He will join Al Gore’s Current TV network, a collaboration both parties see as an opportunity to inject the network–now seen in [...]
I wasn’t going to even watch it. Really, amid the orgasmic Neo-Con hoopla surrounding Ronald Reagan’s centennial celebration, what self respecting leftie would want to be subjected to a two hour documentary about the former president? But the Sundance seal of approval and a few early reviews nudged me to give Eugene Jarecki’s doc “Reagan” [...]
The last three decades have seen a monumental decline in virtually every qualitative measurement in America. This can be directly linked to the conservative political paradigm that was ushered into dominance starting with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. Stagnant wages, rising costs, decreasing benefits, ballooning national debt, and a loss of freedoms have been the keynote of the Reagan Era.
By Gina Villard Having decided to take a week off to recharge my battery, I bought a ticket to London, where I often go and thought of discovering the town on foot. Strolling through Nothing Hill on a cloudy afternoon, I went into a trendy pub for a latte and struck up a conversation with [...]
