I live in Iowa City where our Congressman is a "liberal" “political scientist” (not to be confused with a Christian Scientist) named David…
And now I will comment on a brief conversation I overheard in a college-town coffee shop in Iowa yesterday, one day…
I could swear this happened last night (I am writing on the morning of Thursday, January 31st), but it may be my…
I’ve been getting a number of e-mail messages pretty much along the following lines: “Dear Paul Street, you intrepid Left political analyst…
If you like cynicism in politics, you’ve got to love Barack Obama. There’s nothing naïve or fanciful about the way he says…
Recently the United States ‘ idiocy-inducing narrow-spectrum political culture scraped the moral and intellectual bottom on race. It started when Hillary Clinton…
Here is a killer musical video from the wonderful left English folk-singer Billy Bragg: "The Loneseome Death of Rachel Corrie," adapted from…
Here (pasted in below) is a simply first-rate analysis of Barack Obama’s imperial foreign policy statements and actions regarding the Middle East. …
Their task is to focus attention on the candidate’s “qualities,” not policies. Is he a leader? A nice guy? Voters end…
But you’ll never break, never break, never break, never break…this heart of stone. – Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, 1965 …
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