Donnie Fowler, 03.17.2010
Just Trying to Get Some Good News
Awww, man. On March 17, I friended Sarah Palin on facebook. After expressing my opinion that President Obama is the emergency room surgeon who is ge...
William Bradley, 03.18.2010
California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com
Billionaire Meg Whitman, the seeming political cipher who would be governor of California, is purchasing endless amounts of unanswered advertising.
Nato Green, 03.17.2010
Comedian, union militant, daddy, chef.
Platform upon platform were ratified establishing principles of unity such as Indoor Plumbing is a Gay Conspiracy, Blacks Belong in the Zoo, Manifest Your Destiny, and Honey-Baked Ham is Great.
Jeff Danziger, 03.17.2010
Jeff Danziger is a political cartoonist syndicated by the NYTimes worldwide
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Aladdin Elaasar, 03.16.2010
Author, The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Obama Age
Sarah Palin is definitely the embodiment of the antifeminist movement in this country as she aims to appeal to female voters and consumers in the so-called pink economy.
Aladdin Elaasar, 03.18.2010
Author, The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Obama Age
Why dissenters in Arab and Muslim countries are hushed?By Aladdin Elaasar* From the death sentence fatwa against Salman Rushdie to the ostracism ...
Daniel Firger, 03.13.2010
Roosevelt tapped into the vein of American outrage over corporate influence in politics. He wasn't the first -- and is certainly not the last -- great American leader to recognize the threat.
Bill Maher, 03.15.2010
Host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
Last week, President Obama defended the firing of every single teacher in a struggling high school in Rhode Island. Yes, America has found a new boogeyman to blame for our crumbling educational system.
Giles Slade, 03.12.2010
Recovering academic writer
Disturbingly, women are tearing themselves down or blowing themselves apart as America watches. Kathy Griffin or Sarah Palin. You must all choose now.
William Bradley, 03.12.2010
California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com
Something new and more than a little bizarre is busy being born in California, where billionaire Meg Whitman has been spending feverishly for months on an advertising blitz.
Tallulah Morehead, 03.12.2010
Award-Eligible Film Legend, Goddess, and Lush
Sadly, not every episode of Survivor can be as much fun as last week's dynamite combination of Voldepussy's crying jag and James dripping baby oil.
Geoffrey Dunn, 03.12.2010
Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and historian
In advance of the upcoming baseball season, the right-wing blogosphere has gone viral with a parody of Ernest Thayer's immortal "Casey at the Bat," with Barack Obama replacing the Mudville slugger striking out.
Meredith C. Carroll, 03.11.2010
Newspaper columnist, freelance writer/editor and Olympic decathlete
Part of me wants to preserve my daughter's childlike spirit -- the one that made Sarah Palin feel it was appropriate to refer notes on her hand while giving a televised keynote convention speech.
Frances Moore Lappe, 03.11.2010
Coffee Partiers might focus more on the threat of concentrated, unaccountable corporate power, while Tea Partiers' typically target concentrated, unaccountable government power. But see a pattern?
Rev. Peter Laarman, 03.11.2010
executive director of Progressive Christians Uniting and Contributing Editor to Religion Dispatches Magazine
it seems to me that the only way forward for leaders who fully understand the dangerous nature of these times is to be both persistently reasonable and persistently theological.
Dan Manatt, 03.11.2010
Dan Manatt is a producer and media consultant
Comrade Sarah recently made a cultural revolution style confession that her family used to sneak cross border to get glorious free socialized medicine in People's Republic of Canada. Very nice!
Fabio Periera, 03.10.2010
Writer based in Los Angeles
As Hollywood settles back into a more quotidian routine, its Oscargasm finally over and the glitz and glam neatly folded away till another season, it's a good time to take a look back at a few of this year's awards season highlights.
Rep. Anthony Weiner, 03.09.2010
Congressman from New York
Socialist. Death panels. Downright evil. Those are just some of the talking points Sarah Palin uses to describe the Democrat's health care plan. Well, I wonder if she was quite so outspoken when she was in Canada receiving medical attention?
William Bradley, 03.09.2010
California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com
Whitman hates the comparison with Schwarzenegger, even though obvious, as both she and Schwarzenegger are Republicans, both are super-rich, and neither had any experience in elected office before running.
Lincoln Mitchell, 03.10.2010
Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Sarah Palin's recent statement that, presumably during her childhood, she and her family used to cross the border to take advantage of Canada's health care system is not so much a gaffe as an interesting insight into a politician.
Steven Weber, 03.09.2010
Actor, wise-ass, @TheStevenWeber
Along with championing the deregulating of industry, the Republicans have also sought to deregulate grammar.