Those old enough to remember the original "Saturday Night Live" show from the 1970s will remember this signature line from Franken. But you…
Read moreThat's the conclusion of the International Committee of the Red Cross in a new report released today . You can read a summary and download the pd…
Read moreThe Obama administration is considering issuing an executive order that would allow so-called "preventive detention" of terrorism suspects…
Read moreNewsweek science writer Sharon Begley pens an often wickedly funny critique of evolutionary psychology this week, and I blog about it briefly on Sc…
Read moreI know I'm coming in late on this, but I gather that the right-wing blogosphere has been going bananas because President Barack Obama took his …
Read moreI've been neglecting the science segment of this blog, but today on Science 's online news service (ScienceNOW) I write about a paper report…
Read moreA waste of fossil fuels, a waste of human energy, and quite frankly, a scam on those people who can afford gardeners because these guys spend all the…
Read moreDavid Rohde, who while at the Christian Science Monitor was one of the first journalists to expose the Serb massacre of 8000 Muslim men at Srebrenic…
Read moreI'm just as willing as anyone to believe that the Iranian election was rigged; and of course I condemn the brutal suppression of demonstrators in…
Read moreAdy Barkan has a particularly clear and cogent commentary on Slate , posted Friday, about the possible consequences of Judge Jeffrey White's rul…
Read moreThe New York Times nails President Obama and his Justice Department in an editorial today entitled "A Bad Call on Gay Rights." At issue i…
Read moreCould it be that all the blather about a nuclear-armed Iran is just Israeli leaders' way of distracting us from the real matter at hand, the peac…
Read moreThe archaeology team working at 9500 year old Neolithic Çatalhöyük, one of the largest early farming sites ever investigated, has shown up and begun …
Read moreWhy? The story of a Los Angeles woman who is facing a 58% increase in her insurance premium from Blue Shield, related by David Lazarus in today'…
Read moreBack in 2006, when Hillary Clinton was preparing to run for re-election as a U.S. Senator from New York, she was challenged in the Democratic Party p…
Read moreA video by Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana made in Jerusalem several days ago, on the eve of President Obama's visit to Cairo. Blumenthal explains…
Read moreThe Times ' Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, sets the record straight today (too late, as usual) about a May 21 story reporting on a Pentagon report c…
Read moreBarack Obama said many important and interesting things in his Cairo speech today, and here is one comment I especially appreciated: ... it is import…
Read moreFor decades, successive U.S. presidents and governments have provided political cover for Israel's real intentions: Grab as much Palestinian land…
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