by James Heflin | Feb 10, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
How about a refreshingly adult view of the political situation? Lawrence Lessig pretty much nails it, as far as I'm concerned. From an article that's well worth your time in The Nation: …Obama once spoke for the anger that has now boiled over in even the...
by James Heflin | Apr 9, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Lose the presidential gig, and things really go south. The above-pictured fellow is accused of putting pipe bombs in mailboxes because he’s angry at the government. (So no, it’s not Dick Cheney, but nobody’s seen them both at the same time, either.)...
by James Heflin | Feb 11, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Bush and then Obama threatened our closest ally with the withholding of intelligence information regarding terrorism if the U.K. released the following paragraphs about what happened to Binyam Mohamed in Guantanamo. What I find most disturbing about such things is the...
by James Heflin | Apr 12, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Saith the Washington Post: Anger over the health-care overhaul has led to a nearly threefold increase in recent months in the number of serious threats against members of Congress, federal law enforcement officials said. The lawmakers reported 42 threats in the first...
by James Heflin | Feb 15, 2010 | Ten Gallon Liberal
When Al Gore intoned "bridge to the 21st century," he was very wrong. Thanks in part to the religious cartoon of fundamentalism and to the opportunism of opinion manipulators, we appear to be busily building a bridge to the 12th century. Yep, we've got...
