Luis Heredia, 09.04.2010
Executive Director, Arizona Democratic Party
Arizona's unelected governor Jan Brewer is taking a page right out of Sarah Palin's playbook: Attack your opponent with questionable claims and outrig...
Sam Seder, 09.04.2010
Ironist
I went to the Beck Rally last weekend for about five hours... words escape me so allow me just to say, I report, you decide......
Peter H. Gleick, 09.03.2010
Co-founder/President, Pacific Institute
The explosive growth in bottled water use by Americans, and indeed, much of the rest of the world, is due to many factors, including both unfounded an...
Sumbul Ali-Karamali, 09.03.2010
Author of "The Muslim Next Door: the Qur'an, the Media, and that Veil Thing"
How many of those anti-Islam protesters holding "No Sharia Law" signs (as if anyone were advocating shariah law in the U.S.) actually know what the word means? I'd say, oh, none.
Hans Johnson, 09.03.2010
President, Progressive Victory
Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-tow...
Andy Ostroy, 09.03.2010
NYC political/pop culture analyst (Twitter @AndyOstroy)
Two years from now Palin will once again be reminded that while some voters may salivate at the thought of hearing her speak, they still cringe at the thought of her as president.
William Bradley, 09.03.2010
California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com
Here comes Jerry Brown. After months of Zen rope-a-dope against billionaire Meg Whitman's biggest spending non-presidential campaign in American history, Brown is spinning up his campaign.
Jeff Danziger, 09.03.2010
Political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide
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Robert Brenner, 09.03.2010
Satirist, critic, ventriloquist
As that great military strategist Sarah Palin once said, "I am merely attacking from a different direction."
Jeffrey Feldman, 09.03.2010
Author of Framing The Debate and Outright Barbarous, Founder of Frameshop blog
Today's yellow journalism instantly engulfs any political issue it wants. The crisis in American politics is clear: Either we stop speaking in yellow or America should accept its fate as a nation that can do nothing -- that will do nothing.
Michael Sigman, 09.03.2010
Writer/Editor, Music Publisher
President Obama is a Kenyan or a Muslim -- or a Kenyan Muslim -- masquerading as an American Christian. The Dalai Lama is an undercover Nazi agent. Ma...
Geri Spieler, 09.02.2010
Researcher, author, former journalist and book reviewer for the New York Journal of Books
The Backlash goes into the deep background and the bizarre rise of Glenn Beck in a series of personal and professional vignettes mixing his failed personal life with his success as a radio personality.
David Kronke, 09.02.2010
Saving America from itself since 1776
Cable news talking head/America's Savior Glenn Beck, flush from the success of his "Redefining Honor" rally, has revealed plans for his next audacious stab-at-aggrandizement.
Josh Horwitz, 09.02.2010
Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
This ideological dichotomy in our body politic has become the defining feature of the upcoming November elections, and it was put on full display this past Saturday at two mass rallies in our nation's capitol.
Steve Clemons, 09.02.2010
Publisher of "The Washington Note"
What Barack Obama described in the 2008 campaign is what we are seeing unfold in the country. Guns and religion -- or, in other words, fear and intolerance.
Will Bunch, 09.02.2010
Author, "The Backlash"
A push for job creation would bring work for many people now simmering in the toxic right-wing media bubble instead. The conditions fueling the Obama backlash may lift -- if we can somehow lift the conditions holding back America as a whole.
Bob Cesca, 09.02.2010
Host of the Bob and Elvis Show
While everyone is focused on the crowd sizes or Glenn Beck's tall tale about holding in his bare hands George Washington's inaugural address at the National Archives, the more important questions ought to be about the money.
John Shore, 09.01.2010
Award-winning author and blogger
What Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga are both communicating to their fans is: "Even though the world might care not a whit about you, you are, just as you are, fantastic."
Mark Joseph, 09.01.2010
Producer, author, talk show host and editor of Bullypulpit.com
Why should Palin even try to run for President when she can essentially govern from her kitchen table in Alaska by endorsing candidates who share her political beliefs?
David Helfenbein, 09.01.2010
former government official, political prognosticator, website founder and editor
I fear that many Democrats and Republicans who are not joining the Tea Party bandwagon are underestimating the power of this movement.
Terry Newell, 09.01.2010
Terry Newell focuses on ethics and leadership and has had a long career in public service.
Any rally on the mall honoring King must acknowledge that the government, rightly led, can be a force for good. Hating the government, to King, was no less despicable than hating one's fellow human being.