He’s tied his own hands behind his back, so it’s hard to see how he’ll win, unless the Republicans put up Bachmann.read more

No wonder he's lost support from the left. He's governed from the corporate center right.

His insistence that we send “a unified message” is the same undemocratic claptrap that we hear from every war President who wants the Congress and the citizenry to shut up.read more

In his speech to the Muslim world, President Obama offered little that was new. And he didn’t connect the dots in his bullet-point lecture. He failed to recognize how the multiple problems that hover over the region are increasingly linked and feed dangerously off each other.read more

“We’ve been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law,” he said. Tell that to the Iranians, or the Guatemalans, or the Chileans, or the Indonesians, or the Salvadorans, or the Vietnamese.read more

By not prosecuting the torturers and those ordered torture, and by not releasing the torture photos, Obama is staining himself with the crimes of his predecessor. And that’s a crime.read more