I said that the best quick and dirty way you could tell when a ‘conservative’ leader was lying by whether his or her mouth was moving.  Some people took exception.  Now It’s objective and not a matter of debate. At one time conservatism actually stood for something other than hypocrisy and deceit.  I hope that…

Joe Conason has written a very thought provoking piece on politics and empathy in today’s Salon.com.  If he is right, and I think he is, there are serious mental disorders underlying a great many of today’s leading ‘conservatives’ and presumably some of their supporters.  That would explain a lot.

Starhawk tells it like it is and while it’s too late to save Van Jones’ position because of Obama’s increasingly apparent lack of character, it’s not too late to tell this so-far failure of a leader that he made a mistake and needs to start taking his supporters as seriously as the people who won’t…

Conservative “pro-life” Christians, especially Texans, now have an interesting moral challenge.  Cameron Todd, an innocent man, was executed in Texas.  The facts of his innocence are overwhelming in this case.  For a start, see Huffingtonpost  as well as Barry Scheck’s report, also in Huffingtonpost. The full story is in the New Yorker. Many hard core…

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