Journalism lost a hero this weekend. Rest in peace, Mike Wallace … [Read more...]

I, along with the rest of the city of Boston, awoke this morning to a Boston Globe front-page with two above-the-fold side-by-side images of black men — one, a large image of a black teen in a hoodie, the other a small image of an … [Read more...]

Yesterday, Mitt Romney identified three targets he will attack if elected: health care, women, and passenger rail transportation. Here's the three choice bits of this very brief video: "Of course you get rid of Obamacare (sic), that's … [Read more...]

I came across this just now. The headline: "Woman: Priest denied me Communion at mom's funeral because I'm gay". I grew up just outside Gaithersburg, my mother lives there now. I offer it without comment: From the video in the piece … [Read more...]

Thursday morning, NPR's On Point broadcast a shocking story of government betrayal of homeowners. The politics of this will be fascinating, if the mainstream media are willing to touch this hot-potato. Why? Because Edward DeMarco — … [Read more...]

Sorry about the pun, but I can't resist. The GOP now strives to lionize Steve Jobs, spawning another round of lies to prop up their failed dogma. The lie goes something like "Steve Jobs created more jobs than President Obama's stimulus … [Read more...]

As I right this, it is 58.5 deg F outside my window, and the sun is shining brightly. Our chatty-happy media personalities actively harm us with their bubbly upbeat descriptions of today's "beautiful" weather (I apologize for not … [Read more...]

Apparently not content to bash black people, Rick Santorum yesterday ramped up his gay-bashing. Let me be as clear as I can about what's so wrong with this: it isn't just that Rick Santorum is a racist and homophobic bigot, we … [Read more...]

CBS News reported yesterday these incendiary words from Rick Santorum — on the record, flush in the thrill of victory: I don't want to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money; I want to give them the … [Read more...]

The Ron Paul newsletter fiasco, as nauseating as it is, is but an outward symptom of a metastasizing cancer of race-baiting-for-profit that fuels the GOP and Tea Party. The case is made rather well by a piece by Edward Wyckoff Williams … [Read more...]