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"Love is just a moment of giving, and marriage is when we admit our parent were probably right." Billy Bragg Hands up, ...

While I await the American president's sitting down with some less-friendly, more relentless journalists, this interview with ally C...

I, for one, welcome our new more fast-acting, politically-pointed Simpsons.

It was that secret video, what finally done it. There are no end of plausible explanations as to why Mitt Romney was so soundly trounc...

While I'm not a dedicated reader of right-wing site National Review Online *( sites like NRO and Daily Kos seem to me to favour lig...

"Don't tell me the old, old story Tell me the truth this time" Billy Bragg Yeah my 'side' won on Novembe...

'I Have Never Been More Hopeful About America' I think much of the world concurs with you there, Mr. President. America, con...

When I did a post that invoked Bob Dylan, as a brief aside, in my post about music and politics (see HERE )*,  I received an avalanche o...

  From The Onion January 17, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill ...

Well I may prefer The Economist's dour endorsement or Jonathon Chait' s full-throated one but I gotta admit that Ferrel's i...

Who else would he endorse? And for your further amusement: Last but not least:

Disclaimer I believe editorials concerning another country's election , my own included, are fair journalism, so long as they are...

How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Psalm, 137 It's amazing how belligerent right-wing reactionary types ...

I deeply admire Ta-Nehisi Coates' (more HERE ) writing over at The Atlantic but since I'm not a Civil War buff I don't foll...

Politifact notes Romney's blatant lying: The notion that President Barack Obama started his presidency with an "apology tour...

Do I think Obama won the second presidential debate? Yes. Do I think Romney lost the debate? Yes. Do I think this debate as one-s...

Do I think Joe Biden won the VP debate Yes. Do I think Paul Ryan lost? Yes. Do I think this was as lop-sided as the last debate?...

I guess it was the trolls who inspired me. Back in January 2009 I posted a 1991 single by Seattle punk-metal band Coffin Break ( see H...

Do I think Obama lost the first debate in Denver? Yes. Do I think Romney won? Not really. I’m a fierce Obama support...

While I won't deny my obvious bias, the Republican ad campaign this time around seems so weak that rather than pissing me off it jus...