Archive for the Commentary Category
How about a gun for everybody?
Gun permits? We don't need no stinkin' permits! How about letting everybody have a gun. Everybody! But if they screw up with it and kill somebody, they get murdered, too! How about that? That's how the platform of Basil Marceaux, a Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee, leads off and it gets more bizarre from [...]
How about a gun for everybody?
Gun permits? We don't need no stinkin' permits! How about letting everybody have a gun. Everybody! But if they screw up with it and kill somebody, they get murdered, too! How about that? That's how the platform of Basil Marceaux, a Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee, leads off and it gets more bizarre from [...]
Breitbart vs. Mike Tyson … er, Dyson!
A blast from the past, gang:
On the March 16, 2009, cablecast of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Michael Eric Dyson and Andrew (“I’m Not a Republican”) Breitbart try to school each other on the truth about racial code words, “the black studies crowd” and Rush Limbaugh’s hangup about black men who have power —- [...]
Direct-deposit Social Security benefits need protection from payday lenders
Over the years, I’ve met too many people who were stuck in a hellish payday-loan cycle, rolling one loan into another until the fees and the outstanding balance crushed them.
Separate fact from prejudice
Not to startle you, but you have a narrative in your head. Dozens of them, in fact.
Wikileaks reveal the obvious dangers of Afghanistan
The tens of thousands of classified military documents posted on the Internet Sunday confirm what critics of the war in Afghanistan already knew or suspected: We are wading deeper into a long-running, morally ambiguous conflict that has virtually no chance of ending well.
`Fury’ of the right turns into shameful hoax
Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod.
Race isn’t the problem — economic inequality is
Instead of focusing on the politics behind the firing and subsequent redemption of Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod, we should consider what she was trying to tell us when she addressed the NAACP.
A mosque to be built on our principles
They want to build a mosque two blocks from Ground Zero.
Obama needs to stand up to ‘reverse racism’ ploy
After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there’s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.