Obama: History’s First Socialist Anarchist?

When protesters take an image so clearly tied to anarchy and label it socialism, it exhibits an intellectual laziness that typifies the central flaw that will soon collapse the birther/deather movement. [...]

Mitch McConnell is Not Entitled to His Own Reality

In Rick Shenkman’s new book, Just How Stupid Are We?: Facing the Truth About the American Voter, he calls our attention to this myth of The People that McConnell invoked in Meet the Press this past weekend.  David Gregory alluded to some statistics about how the United States ranks among industrialized nations in terms of health care.  Those statistics paint a very different picture than what McConnell claims.  McConnell’s retort?  “Well, that’s one expert.  If you ask the American people…” Continue reading…