If my memory serves me right it was just about a year and half ago that the Chattering Class ruled Scott Btown’s victory as proof-positive that the tide was turning against the Obama administration and that Republicans were resurgent. The Tea Party was brewing and bubbling and Brown presaged a “correction” after the 2008 Democratic [...]

Almost 40 years after his death, the body of former Chilean President Salvador Allende was exhumed today under judicial order of a new forensic investigation.  What scant coverage of this event exists mostly misses the point. This is NOT primarily about determining whether he was killed or whether he committed suicide moments before he was [...]

What do you see as the most pressing problem in the inner city today? The parenting problem. A lot of minorities have such a problem with the single-parent situation. The parents are the single most important influence on a child, followed by education and the peer group. The number of single parents in the U.S. [...]

Poor Mr. Strauss-Kahn.  The dirty old man who has been heading up the IMF seems to have gotten his dongle caught in a wringer and instead of being the next President of France he seems headed for being the plate du jour in some New York state pen. There’s much one can say about the [...]

I wasn’t sure if I was having an nightmare or was just suffering a hangover from some discouraging poker play late Saturday night, but I awoke Sunday morn to see a zombie actually talking on network TV! There was newly announced presidential candidate Newt Gingrich yammering away on Meet The Press (as if he had [...]

President Obama offered up a campaign-style impassioned speech Tuesday in El Paso demanding comprehensive immigration reform. Too bad it’s an empty promise. To paraphrase the president’s recent remarks on a different subject, anybody who really believes there’s going to be any meaningful reform in the near future “needs their head examined.” There is going to [...]

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I very much enjoyed Lawrence O’Donnell’s ditty tonight on Cuba (see video above). He pointed out an amusing parallel between the Island and the Empire. Something both countries have in common. Even as Cuba moves toward more and more capitalist measures, Raul Castro [...]

I was sort of waiting for this. Noam Chomsky coming out in public to declare that Osama Bin Laden was an “unarmed victim” and, better, to strongly suggest he just might also be innocent i.e. that he’s just bullshitting when he claims credit for the Al Qaeda attacks. Chomsky argues: In April 2002, the head [...]