Why is it that the United States’ response to any threat is to escalate it to a level from which it becomes extremely difficult to back down? Is it really wise for Dick Cheney to threaten Iran over its nuclear…

You just knew it would come to this. All it would take to overturn Roe v. Wade — now that the Supreme Court is comprised of right-wing activist judges — was a case brought by a state that had outlawed…

It just astounds me, the pure arrogance of Bush and those in his administration. I think he must have thought that this sale of port management to a company from the UAE would just go unnoticed. That can be the…

You just gotta laugh, right? Imagine these Christian United States of America going off and telling the Prime Minister of Iraq, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, that we’re not all that jazzed about the fact that “democracy” in Iraq seems to be taking…

One of the best lines in George Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead” (the original), was spoken by one of the characters upon picking up a shiny new rifle in a locked-down gun shop inside a mall. “The only person that…