Liberal Talk Radio

Second Amendment advocates are planning a March on Washington on the 15th anniversary of Oklahoma City bombing and the anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas. They say that the reason they picked April 19th had nothing to do with Oklahoma City, but rather the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord. [...]

I’m not sure when the last time was that I checked the “bottom” of my soul — it’s possible I may never have checked down there — but some have: Judith A. McHale was expecting a contentious session with Ansar Abbasi, a Pakistani journalist known for his harsh criticism of American foreign policy, when she [...]

Obama detractors on Left and Right have both taken pains to paint him as a closet Muslim. The willing mix up of “Obama” with “Osama” is just the most egregious example of a pattern that’s emerged over and over in this campaign – point out Obama’s differences in an effort to marginalize him and divide [...]

American Apparel’s Dov Charney will finally have his day in court: The founder of American Apparel will star in a sexual-harassment trial this week, and he makes Isiah Thomas sound like Susan B. Anthony. Dov Charney walks around his office in his underwear, sleeps with employees, and calls women bitches, sluts, whores and the c-word [...]

I happened to catch a bit of Glenn Beck’s “Public Viewer” on Pravda while at the gym last night. This guy may possibly be the biggest douche in national media today. Seriously — comparisons with Father Charles Coughlin come to mind. He’s a barely literate blowhard that likes to stroke his own ego to orgasm [...]

Friedman has a nice essay in today’s NYT laying out just how far America’s fallen as a result of Bush’s disastrous post-9/11 overreaction. Like all good satire, the story [in the Onion] made me both laugh and cry, because it reflected something so true — how much, since 9/11, we’ve become “The United States of [...]

Look, I detest Iran’s repressive policies as much as the next American.  And I clearly think that Columbia is well within its rights — nay, performing a critical service for our democracy — by inviting L’il Kid Nuclear to speak. But still, it’s utterly deplorable to invite a guest to your home and then use [...]

Apparently Mia Farrow is in Africa filming the sequel to Bernardo Bertolucci’s terrible adaptation of Paul Bowles’ book: Mia Farrow has a daring plan to win the freedom of an ailing rebel leader from war-ravaged Darfur – she wants to take his place. The activist actress offered to trade places with Suleiman Jamous, who needs [...]

For all the saber-rattling towards Iran coming from Dick Cheney and his ilk in recent months, it’s worth putting the country in context. Fareed Zakaria does this in his excellent Newsweek cover story on post-Bush foreign policy: No country has caused greater panic among American elites—of both parties. There are many influential voices arguing for [...]

UBL may have succeeded in ridding the holy land of U.S. troops but look who has Starbucks right across the street from the Kaaba. Win the battle, lose the war, beeyotch: Five times a day across the globe devout Muslims face this city in prayer, focused on a site where they believe Abraham built a [...]