The victory of President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney should prompt some intense soul searching by Republicans. What the Republicans need most of all is a reality check. The pundits will all say the right wing should reconsider its hostility toward women, minorities, unions, and lower-income people. That’s all true, but it sidesteps the larger issue: [...]

I lived in Latin America for a decade, and one of my most indelible memories concerns how poor people so often side with the rich rather than their own interests. On the way to work one day in São Paulo, I noticed a well-dressed man sitting in his shiny new Mercedes. The only problem: his [...]

George McGovern was right on all the issues that mattered most, then and now, and he should have become president. He campaigned on ending the Vietnam War right away, believed that everyone should have the basics in life, and fought for equal rights for women and racial minorities. Instead, McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election [...]

A liberal political group just made it a whole lot easier for a right-wing teabag nut to snatch away a congressional seat from under our eyes in liberal Seattle. The seat has been held by a liberal Democrat since 1999, but with redistricting it is considered a swing district now. An attack mailing provides ammunition [...]

“When money doesn’t talk, it swears” – Bob Dylan What have we learned from the failed attempt to recall Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin? Money swears? In Wisconsin, it lobbed more F bombs than Rod Blagojevich, George Carlin and Lenny Bruce combined. This is what America looks like now. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling opened [...]

A confluence of crises gives President Barack Obama a golden opportunity to shake up the government as promised during his first presidential campaign at the same time he neutralizes conservative carping about scandals which could have happened no matter who was president. All Americans were shocked when the world’s most elite and awe-inspiring law-enforcement corps, [...]

George Zimmerman is the only living person in the world who knows all the circumstances surrounding his killing of Trayvon Martin. The only other person who knew, Trayvon, is dead. The rest of us string together bits and pieces about the case and draw conclusions based largely on our world view. One side sees Zimmerman [...]

When Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says corporations are people, he’s got it right. At least insofar as referring to Sarah Palin. The former Alaska governor has reinvented herself as Palin Inc., in which her main product is victimhood wrapped inside juicy bits of reverse logic and lies. So when radio bigmouth Rush Limbaugh attacked [...]

At long last, some right wingers are starting to taste the public’s wrath for their shamefully shameless lack of decency as outraged Americans are starting to fight back against the smears. Rush Limbaugh for years has made a cottage industry of attacking racial minorities, women and disabled people. Decent people have stood up to Limbaugh, [...]

Every time Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum opens his mouth about religion, he makes me want to throw up. I bet millions of other Americans have the same reaction John F. Kennedy, when running for president in 1960, made an oft-quoted speech to Southern Baptist ministers to clarify (at the same time he was negating [...]

Let’s be thankful that the Republicans decided to channel circus ringmaster P.T. Barnum – credited with coining the phrase “there’s a sucker born every minute” – to craft their message against President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. On the same day Obama offered his well-designed blueprint for the nation, the GOP made two [...]

Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said during the “Southern Debate” that as president, he would make sure the U.S. health care system was run like a business and not like the postal service. “So we’ll make it work in the way it’s designed to have health care act like a market. A consumer market,” Romney [...]

I recently received an email telling about an anonymous passenger who bought sack lunches for soldiers aboard a commercial airline flight as a gesture of patriotism. It was a heartwarming story about how the person who paid $50 for 10 lunches was handed, by fellow passengers, another $75 which was passed along to the soldiers. [...]

President Barack Obama was deemed the winner of the GOP debates earlier this year because the Republican candidates said such wacky things that rational voters were forced to conclude that they’d better vote for Obama to avoid getting stuck with someone even nuttier or stupider than the disastrous Bush the Second. At the foreign policy debate [...]

President Barack Obama has succeeded in bringing down the world’s worst terrorists, Osama bin Laden and Moammar Gadhafi. Right-wingers, who inflate the achievement of Ronald Reagan, will never give Obama any credit. “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Reagan’s prescient remarks at the Brandenburg Gate in 1987 are perhaps his most famous and emblematic. Nobody [...]

Karl Rove, the man known as Bush’s brain for managing to get George W. Bush elected as governor and president despite the man’s utter incompetence, is auditioning for a new career as a stand-up comic. Rove – known as being cunning, manipulative, cynical, deceptive, shameless, mendacious and duplicitous – has shown a talent for being [...]

Democrats, liberals, progressives, all of us realize that this crop of Republican presidential candiates is extreme, far outside the mainstream. They are trying to trick voters into thinking they are not extremists. The early campaign gives us opportunities to force them to show their true colors. My website, YourBestQuestion.com compiles questions that ordinary citizens can ask [...]