Russ McBee

After John Edwards's strong second-place finish in last night's Iowa caucus, he had this to say: [C]orporate greed has got a stranglehold on America. And unless and until we have a president in the proud tradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, who has a little backbone, who has some strength, who has some fight, who's ...

For the last couple of years, the neocons and their puppets have been shouting about the dangers allegedly posed by Iran and its oh-so-scary nuclear program. Just two months ago, President Bush said this about the threat that Iran's nuclear program represented: Q But you definitively believe Iran wants to build a nuclear weapon? THE ...

Almost all of modern history has transpired as the result of a single gunshot fired in Sarajevo in 1914. When the Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated the Hapsburg Archduke Ferdinand, Bismarck's famous prediction came true: that a catastrophic war would engulf all of Europe, and that it would start ''over some damn foolish thing in the ...

Dear Democratic National Committee: Because of this, you just lost a donor. From this moment forward, and starting just a few minutes ago, all my national political contributions previously designated for the DNC will instead go to MoveOn. The DNC will never receive another dime from me. The Democratic leadership in both the House and the Senate ...

Only a week after the car-bombing at the Glasgow airport, BBC Scotland aired a program which brought Muslims and local and national government leaders to the same stage to discuss terrorism, the issues facing Middle Eastern immigrants in Scotland, and the recent bombings. Imagine that. Dialogue. What a concept. One of the panelists, a human ...

The Dems passed the Capitulation Bill today, missing an opportunity to end this ridiculous war: To right-wingers, it confirms their opinion of Democrats as spineless weaklings, afraid to stand up for their principles. Dream on if Democratic officeholders think they will get a shred of credit from the Iraq War dead-enders for their ''support of ...

Fred Thompson said this, about Congressional Democrats voting to end the debacle in Iraq: ''They're as near to investing in defeat of their own country than anything I've ever seen, and I don't think the American people will forgive them for that,'' he said. Since Thompson represents nothing but a continuation of the current failed status quo, ...