Excellent use of statistics to elucidate instead of obscure underlying truths, although I wish Johnston hadn't have ignored the inequality in wealth, which is in truth far more striking than income disparity. There is also missing the rising share of national income taken up by corporate earnings and how capital gains tax cuts have aggravated the inbalance.

Well done and well overdue look at how MoveOn.org is no darling of progressives with no real commitment to a decisive end of the Iraq occupation. The real situation is actually a little more stark than the author suggests, with the committed anti-war folks characterized as "idiot liberals" and worse by Democrat Party apparatchiks. It also would have been nice to see some examination of the funding sources behind MoveOn, as well as to see if there has been any revolving door affect between their ranks and the staffers for the new majority in Congress.

This column proves little more than Ms. Saunder's continued and deliberate ignorance of the phony intelligence cooked up and long since exposed. To suggest a few remaining buried chemical munitions equates a threat to the United States is ludicrous, nor is it at all credible to suggest an imminent nuclear weapon production program in a country without any reactors.

The strokes were painted a bit too thick here, with the scarcest skimming over of this man's career with little detail, while magnifying personal disputes and anecdotal slams on his character. I appreciated the human interest angle but the issues were shunted aside and few of his supporters were given voice for balance.

Most news accounts focus more on the affects of this issue on "the market" rather than these marginal homeowners who face an uncertain future. More in-depth analysis of the startling developments in our banking and financial systems is needed, but this is an excellent introduction to the subject.

There is a great deal of justifiable debate over what number by what methodology may be achieve to account for the mounting human toll in Iraq, but without a doubt this number is far, far higher than 60,000. FAIR does it again.

This represents a more meaningful "24 hour news cycle" than the cable news networks which often seem asleep on a loop. I appreciated getting some direct quotes from the bloggers themselves, instead of some 'expert' massaging the messages in a second-hand interview.

Detailed and thoughtful, but it lacked the perspective of the musicians themselves and what impacts this market shift will have on them.

Cute, but not particularly in depth, focusing more on what campaigns might do with YouTube rather than the affect independent producers have, which thus far has proven to be far greater.

A scorecard from the National Journal on 'liberalism' I would suggest as an exercise of little real use. On a laundry list of issues, from immediate withdrawal from Iraq, termination of the World Trade Organization and balancing the US approach to Palestine and Israel, Obama is clearly far to the right of Kucinich.

It's about time the real diversity of opinion within the Jewish community on the subject of Zionism was explored in the context of the Mideast peace process (or lack thereof), although I thought it did slight the truly appalling levels of violence perpetrated by IDF forces in the occupied territories and what this means as far as the moral authority of jingoist lobbies such as AIPAC.

A good example of the "lies, damn lies and statistics" adage, with the comparison of crime numbers with actual crime rates. It's a question really not asked enough, as per who benefits from the "lock-'em-up" strategy increasingly employed.

There's some very flawed assumptions basic to the perspective of this story, namely these unsupported suggestions of Syrian interference in Iraq and of the supposed ease Israel would face launching a war on Syria. The IDF proved to be a hollow force against even Hezbollah guerillas after a month of fighting, yet we are to assume an easy win over a much larger and better equipped Syrian force, one which would have a different set of foreign backers? Even to suggest such an unlikely event, the other fact unmentioned is the strong grassroots support for Hezbollah from the sizable Shia community in Lebanon, a community which would continue to receive support from Iran regardless of Syria's position. These people aren't going ... More »

An excellent array of source material and local background contributed to a well thought-out look at Gore's environmental record, which has hardly been spotless when we consider the Occidental Petroleum interests in Columbia he was pressured into opting out of in years past. I only wish there could have been some examination of the direct connection between such mining operations and climate change.

It's about time the true capabilities of Congress to govern the course of war were exposed and detailed in light of the current debate over withdrawal from Iraq.