With his upcoming American Revival tour, Glenn Beck provides a brilliant endorsement for the separation of church and state, the continued need for the republic’s representative democracy, responsible to the needs of its citizens, and a harbinger of disaster should anyone who agree’s with Beck ever achieve political power.

Six years later in Christiania, an expensive and brutal crackdown has only produced one real change in the hash district: Now the dealers use tables instead of booths.

I was rooting for Gwen Ifill. After George Stephanopoulos left ABC’s Sunday morning powerhouse “This Week” for the second anchor chair at “Good Morning America,” TV news junkies speculated on who would fill his formidable seat. Internal candidates like Jake Tapper and Terry Moran didn’t seem particularly exciting. With a resume that included covering the [...]

Scott Brown won the former seat of Ted Kennedy (D-MA) recently. Although this would normally be a victory for Republicans, it gives them 41 seats in the US Senate which they will now use to stall or delay any reforms in 2010. This obstruction could reignite the progressive ground game that was pivotal to the Democrats 2008 landslide.

If the courts are truly unable to address a recognized breach of the First Amendment of the Constitution; a public Congressional Inquiry should be convened to determine if the IRS has been compromised through either blackmail, coercion, or collusion, to cause such a violation by the Church of Scientology. Such a breach of the institution threatens the credibility of the entire system and could prove to further erode confidence in the government and democratic institutions of the United States of America.