Admittedly, we emit large amounts of carbon dioxide per person, but the United States is at the very top in terms of how much it is able to create for the carbon dioxide it produces. And U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions per output have been improving [...]
This is no time for Holiday Cheer
American Muslims, the reasoning went, [...]
Even for a country that prides itself on its revolutionary credentials, Iran has been unusually bellicose in recent weeks, rejecting a nuclear deal it had earlier appeared to embrace and threatening to build new uranium-enrichment plants in defiance of international restrictions.
One reason, Iran specialists [...]
For our money, one of the better parts of President Obama's speech at West Point this week was his connection between a healthy economy and U.S. national security. To quote: "Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power. It pays for our military. It underwrites our" [...]
I am a leftist -- an unabashed liberal, pinko, progressive, tree-hugging, union-loving, peace and love socialist. I am not ashamed of that and I make no apology for it. I just believe the left offers the most common-sense solutions to the problems that America and the [...] 
Freedom from Want
Michael Quinn Sullivan of the GOP front group, Empower Texans, distributed a Thanksgiving video in which he claims the first Thanksgiving was actually a celebration of capitalism over socialism — some 200 years before anyone ever thought up industrial-era socialism in the first [...]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has defended jailed killer "Carlos the Jackal" and several world leaders he says are wrongly considered "bad guys".
In a speech to international socialist politicians, Mr Chavez said "Carlos", a Venezuelan, was not a terrorist but a key "revolutionary fighter".
He is serving a [...]
Gov. Rick Perry, Texas Republican, recently joined commentators Rush Limbaugh, Patrick Buchanan and others in using the word "socialist" to describe President Obama and his policies, and we all know what's coming - a verbal bombardment.
Critics will call him hysterical, paranoid and stupid. They [...]
The sheer volume of the nutty screaming from the Right can obscure the rank hypocrisy of the GOP’s attacks on health care reform. So let’s clear up a few things.
Health care reform is about getting our neighbors better health care, reducing unnecessary suffering and early death. “Socialism!” [...]
