by Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers
Let’s face it. Countries, like individuals, get lost sometimes — really lost, ignoring the maps of morality and civil behavior, bringing shame and disrepute on themselves.
In terms of individuals, good people do weird stuff on occasion: run off, or inexplicably go on a bender, or visit purveyors of easy virtue, [...]

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by Steve Weissman
Growing up in Florida in the 1940s, I saw many of the doctors my family knew fighting against Harry Truman’s effort to enact what they called “Socialized Medicine.” Their immediate target was Sen. Claude Pepper, a New Deal Democrat who supported universal health care. [...]

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by Dave McGill
Some 23 senators and 133 House members voted against the war resolution in 2002, but none are being called upon, so far, to form Obama’s circle of advisers.
Instead, it is currently anticipated that Hillary Clinton will be the next Secretary of State and Robert M. Gates will be asked to stay on for [...]

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by Shannyn Moore
Like it’s not bad enough. I’ve been hearing loons talk about secession up here my whole life. In Alaska, the three top ballot seats: President, Senate and House of Representatives, have candidates on the ballot from the secessionist Alaska Independent Party. In two of the three, the AIP holds at least 4% of [...]

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by Dave McGill
The circus has come to town in Raymondville, South Texas. But, first off, you’ve got to hand it to the sparsely populated Willacy County grand jury that had the guts to do something the Democratic leaders in Congress have not had the courage to do.
It indicted Vice President Dick Cheney.

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