House Blue Dogs and pro-Wall Street "New Democrats" in the House, as well as individual turncoats in the Senate like Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Max Baucus, and Tim Johnson, have demonstrated that they can play hardball. Progressive Democrats are actually a majority of the Democratic caucus in both houses. It's time they played a little hardball, too. If Democrats can start sounding like Democrats again, they'll have a better shot at holding onto their majority in Congress next November.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says the number one threat to America is nuclear terrorism. He is right. And Joe Biden has the plan for how to prevent it.
Animated features are the fairy tales of today and have a profound impact on the children who experience them, such as films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs did for my generation.
Once again, Cheney, appearing on national television, spewed his mephitic brew of insinuations and allegations about Obama. Is this the best that the GOP can do?
From where I'm sitting I can see the side of Michael Kors' face. He is, of course, wearing sunglasses, even though it's as dim as Heidi Montag in here.
For all the talk about Obama's grassroots fundraising prowess, it may have been Wall Street funds that gave him the edge in 2008. There are now signs that those funds may not be there for him in 2012.
The real risk -- the real contagion -- as people from Main Street to the Bundestrasse understand intuitively, is the growing effort to take risk and accountability out of the financial system.
Taxpayers are asked to believe that over-borrowing by U.S. consumers created a global financial crisis. This myth aids and abets Wall Street. The economy was nearly destroyed because banks borrowed massively.
If it's a war and you find an enemy on the battlefield, you kill him. Opting in the first instance to detain and interrogate someone, on the other hand, is what you're doing if you're running a criminal investigation.
Financial regulators must propose a ban on abusive naked credit default swaps that is, at minimum, similar to the one already in place that bans abusive naked shorts.
Almost every president we have elected in the past seven decades has sought to advance the fortunes of the US empire and the free world. Their lessons in governance, for good and ill, are our lessons.
The mirror concept suggests that when we perceive something in another, or react to something in another, what we are really doing is seeing a reflection of our own selves in the other person's behavior.
Republican Senators holding important national security and justice positions vacant while extorting provincial pork must be exposed and shamed.
Dear Barack -- We need to talk. I still want to go steady, but I am starting to feel uneasy about the level of your commitment.
This Valentine's Day give yourself permission to let Aphrodite surprise and delight you. Let her come to you from the realm of love, awakening your own inner beauty.
If Donna Karan had one message to send with her DKNY collection for fall, it was this: get a coat--and make it a fabulous one at that.
Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Vice President Joe Biden said today that he was "open" to the idea of military tribunals for people who tried to destroy America, "such as Dick Cheney."
The recess appointment power is not unprecedented, and it's hardly rare. George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, while Clinton made 139 appointments.
The international community must be guided by the faith of the Haitians themselves that tomorrow will be better than today. And we must seize the opportunity in agriculture in the midst this tragedy.
Perhaps his clean-cut, boyish image obscured my ability to recognize the astonishing talent he possessed from the start. Regardless, I could see it now: Jeff Bridges has always been a lot more than a pretty face.
Since President Obama was elected, the U.S.-Islamic Forum has striven to sustain the momentum borne from Obama's landmark address in Cairo and the new era ushered in by his election.
Big firms wield so much influence that they can manipulate the outcome of their trades.
Given OPEC's success, given our tolerance of its activities, given its enormous cost to our society, why should we not, in our own self-interest and in an effort to level the playing field, follow its example?
