“For me, it’s about collaboration.
— National Treasury Employees Union President
Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the
anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House
Is President Obama directly implicated in
the IRS s...
As gratifying as it was to see the “news” media actually do its
job last week when the IRS scandal broke, it was also odd that the
coverage focused exclusively on abuses of power relating to various
Tea Party and anti-abortion groups. A much scarier I...
Over a pleasant weekend here in The Nation’s Only Boom Town, the
avalanche of awful disclosures about the Internal Revenue Service
continues with no end in sight. Meanwhile, below I raise a simple
question, suggest the obvious answer and the conclusion...
How much longer will we have to fight the war on terrorism? Last
week the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations,
Michael Sheehan, told a Senate hearing that “I think it’s at least
ten or twenty years.” Wow. What a relief. Well, not r...
Last Thursday, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) started a
Twitter prairie fire
with his call for people to describe
#ObamacareInThreeWords. (My contribution was “Sorry, Doctor
retired.”)
Other gems included “Max Baucus regrets,” “A massi...
ONLY ONE YEAR INTO his presidency, François Hollande, France’s
bland, indecisive, but stubbornly doctrinaire socialist leader, is
already setting records. Admittedly they are not the sort of
milestones that the French were hoping for when they voted hi...
A few words first about Downton Abbey. I’ll assume that
its upstairs/downstairs formula is familiar to readers. One of the
BBC show’s great merits is that its creator, Julian Fellowes, does
not indulge in class war. Lord Grantham is “probably the mo...
Broadcast networks featured more homosexual characters during
the 2012-2013 season than ever before. The Big Four networks lost
7.5 percent of their viewership, with a more profound exodus
occurring among the 18-49 demographic coveted by Madison Avenue. D...
When an American compound in Benghazi was attacked last year,
the Obama administration targeted a filmmaker named Nakoula
Basseley Nakoula, accusing him of setting the Muslim world ablaze
and then throwing him in prison. The government also pressured
YouT...
Less than two weeks ago President Obama stood in front of
graduates from The Ohio State University and told them to reject
those who warn of government tyranny.
“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly
warn of government as...
