The Polemicist

What's red and blue, and purple all over?  The United Grapes of America. (For those of you who remember the "Alexander the Grape...

[Escape from New York delayed completion of this post this until after election night. All the better. Now that the great danger has been ...

We’re up against it now.  Less than two weeks left.  Those on the left confront their quadrennial quandary, and the inescapable debate: to v...

Update below. Today, self-identified liberals and progressives are all a-twitter and high-fivin’ each other because in yesterday’s debate ...

Can Americans trust Mitt Romney with a Kill List? (If you’re not familiar with the “Kill List,” see here .) Sure, ask Paul Ry...

The MSNBC meltdown after Wednesday’s Presidential debate was certainly more passionate, entertaining, and instructive than the debate itsel...

The fictive nature of American presidential electoral campaigns never ceases to amaze.   “Fictive,” of course, does not mean simply “fal...

As The New York Times reported  last week: “President Obama, seeking to quell a storm of criticism from Republicans and pro-Israel groups, ...

There’s an email petition appeal going around from firedoglake (FDL), encouraging us to “ Hold The Obama Campaign To Its Guarantee of '...

With Syria at full boil, it’s becoming clearer who exactly will be burned once this pot finally explodes: everybody. The Assad/Alawite r...