As Messrs. Addington and Yoo held the line the other day against any intrusion upon their heavily fortified domain, the question of the administration's fealty to secrecy and proprietary governance became ever more clear.

In BushCo's version, America is an island unto itself and all those who seek the...

Change is seeping into our consciousnesses and Hope is entering our lives like amber rays dispelling the murk of a drugged sleep, the one which we endured so helplessly, so long.

The movement headed by Obama is becoming an unstoppable juggernaut, fueled not by his leadership alone but by...

It couldn't be over fast enough.

The campaign to determine the Democratic presidential nominee, which despite a coarseness that permeated its penultimate moments, actually provided a higher level of discourse this country has been treated to in years. I'm talking about "the party," the kolossally kataklysmic kegger thrown by...

In this month of June, so cruelly significant in the story of Robert Kennedy, remembrances would be expected. The New York Times ran simple and poignant tributes from three of his children, humble, gentle lessons from a life lived greatly. But as the media stuns, slaughters, rends, slices and finally...

An Obama-Clinton dream ticket could unite the viciously divided electorate and form a juggernaut to defeat McBush and his fractured and failed Republican policies, heralding a new era of progressive cultural and political evolution not seen in this country for decades.

Or it could become a nightmare of an...

Sure, there'll be Hillary nutcrackers. But I prefer to think that such an election year novelty speaks more to her Olympian quads than the assumption she would subjugate all men, geld them in a secret ceremony (tastefully lit with tuber rose-scented Jo Malone candles) and lead them around in studded...

On Memorial Day the soldiers who lost their lives in service to this country are honored.

But what if the memorial is tainted, that the wrong wars are being fought by those whose valor is being used for a less than noble agenda?

America's involvement in Iraq has...

"Elitism": the new "Liberal".

Which was the new "Card Carrying Member of the ACLU".

Which was the new "Pinko". Which was the new "Jew-boy". And each manifestation, each new framing of radical right wing conservative expressions of disdain was and continues to be extrapolated from one source: fear. Fear of...

We all knew the facade of civility would eventually come down, but oh how lovely it was for a time, wasn't it?

We knew the Repugs would all have partial birth abortions themselves if only to hurl the gooey bits at the presumptive Democrat (I'm embracing the framing --...

Every passing minute reveals why the country needs an Obama presidency. When another boneheaded utterance issues forth from George Bush's oil sucking lips, with Hillary's Willie Horton moments in West Virginia (And beyond. You'll see.), the pressure is on for the American people to finally truly opt for a positive,...

It's a pity when good candy goes bad. It sits on the shelf and its once sweet shell begins to break down into its essential chemicals, it's snappy nougat becomes flinty and flakey and its eye-catching wrapper fades and becomes brittle.

Sic Semper Zagnutis.

When Bill and Hill presided over...

So now she's gotten mean and he's gotten weak. And the disappointment is palpable in both their faces.

Oh, for the heady days months ago when there stood before us a virtually intact, ready-to-go cabinet of intellects, activists, statespersons and progressive Americans, each with passion, zeal and breadth of knowledge...

The Huffington Post reports that the media's only now turned away from Obama. But did you really think for one minute the MSM would let it be otherwise?

The obviousness with which the media has historically evaded stories about Armenia, the Holocaust, East Timor, Cambodia, Darfur, the oligarchic...

Yay! More of the same! No real change at all! Cynicism and division rule! Huzzah! Vivat! Ya-frikkin'-hoo!

And I almost forgot I was an American for a second.

Perhaps "audacious" really is how to describe it. Because anyone who tries to lift the leaden, bullying, tribal, grunting dialogue (which...

That Mainstream Media is one crafty critter, an exemplar of Darwinian perseverance. It's secured a place at the top of the food chain by seducing its rivals, secreting a soporific perfume to subdue its prey, sinking its fangs into the main artery of the body politic, draining said body of...

If one were to evaluate -- for the umpteenth time -- George Bush's presidency over the last eight years, it would most likely be graded with a colossal, red, angrily scrawled F, the presidency along with an overarching American policy having been remade in Bush's own fatally imperfect, inconceivably incurious...

With all the to-do about who would make the most effective leader (especially after eight years with George "Huh?" Bush drunk at the tiller) and the genuine excitement among many about a possible Obama administration, there might still be validity in the following bleak consideration:

It's silly to think that...

Has anybody actually taken the time to watch Rev. Wright's much maligned sermon in its entirety? The one that the MSM's diced and sliced and handed out like amphetamine-laced communion to its maddeningly impressionable flock? It's there, right on that cyber-commons otherwise known as YouTube.

Yeah, there's all manner...

You know what? It's not Orwellian. It's not a conspiracy of the Illuminati. It's not even Operation Northwoods or Halliburton or The Carlyle Group or Poppy weeping because all along it should have been the smart one, Jeb. It's none of the things that make the colossal failure that is...

It's becoming more crystalline every day that a stirring of the soul yields more than a heart full of fear.

Barack Obama's abilities as a leader are gleamingly apparent as his wisdom, eloquence and brilliance stand in stunning contrast to the deadening vacuum of the Bush years and their litany...