Yesterday, we learned that when he was mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani played a shell game to hide from taxpayers — and his scornful wife — the cost of dragging his security details along when he traveled out to Long Island to visit his then-girlfriend, Judith Nathan. Now comes news that he assigned a […]

CREDO Action from Working Assets and Veterans For Peace have teamed up again this year to provide phone cards to veterans recuperating in V.A. hospitals so they can call their families during the holiday season. Last year they raised more than $90,000, which, thanks to a sweetheart 2.9-cents-per-minute deal with Sprint, was enough to ship […]

Janet Napolitano, governor of Arizona, this week lighted a large piece of green vegetation festooned with shiny things in a ceremony in the lobby of the Capitol Tower in Phoenix. She called it a “holiday tree.” But unlike most people who think such things should be called by another name, Napolitano is accepting of differing […]

Fundraising is down dramatically nationwide for the Republican Party, but things are especially bad here in California, where the state GOP is in such dire straits that its ability to compete in both state and federal races could be affected.
If it passes, this last-minute, unilateral change to the rules will almost undoubtedly hand the […]

During last night’s CNN/YouTube Republican debate, retired Army Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr asked the candidates a question about the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy of the U.S. armed forces. Seems Kerr neglected to tell CNN that he is one of nearly 50 co-chairs of a group called Veterans and Military Retirees for Hillary. Doh!
‘Today, don’t […]

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
— Alfred E. Smith (1873-1944) governor of New York, Presidential candidate 1928

During his term as mayor of New York, which coincided with his 16-year marriage to Donna Hanover, a local television personality, Rudolph Giuliani reportedly had at least two extramarital affairs. The first of these, as alleged by Hanover and a Vanity Fair article from the time, was with his press spokeswoman, Cristyne Lategano, and apparently […]

First some ancient history: In the fall of 2002, the Bush administration was preoccupied with ramming its Iraq war resolution through Congress. It wasn’t that they needed the resolution to go to war. Not hardly.
What the Bush team wanted was to get the Congress on the record about the war before the midterm elections […]

But in truth, in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of the government.
— Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) English philosopher