Bill O’Reilly does try to be fair. In this Talking Points segment he demolishes the Birther myth, and declares that Obama does indeed have a legitimate birth certificate. O’Reilly is the single most popular cable...
Read MoreI don’t know, maybe I’m being picky, but jeez, after reading Edward Ball’s opinion piece on the American Civil War in the New York Times, I wanted to go take a nap. I get what he’s saying: that racial...
Read MoreThis is from Ken Burns’ op-ed in today’s New York Times, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the American Civil War. 620,000 Americans, more than 2 percent of our population, died of gunshot and...
Read MoreWith everything in flux on multiple global fronts, including events in the Middle East, the budget debate in the US, and the frenzied antics of Charlie Sheen, the continuing nuclear crisis story in Japan seems to have been...
Read MoreThis caught my ear in a recent dialog between New York Times columnist David Brooks and PBS’s Charlie Rose. Brooks was on the Charlie Rose show promoting his new book, The Social Animal. Brooks is about as integral as...
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