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Shoot The Messagenew

The attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords brought about another finger storm of thunderpoints in the media, each one blaming the other for the rhetoric that seems to be turning our nation into a tinderbox.
Dig Boston  |  Media Farm  |  01-20-2011  |  Commentary

The Iraq War: Five Years Too Longnew

As a veteran, an American and a human being, it's my responsibility to ask why people are dying for a government that has repeatedly lied. We all share this responsibility.
Dig Boston  |  Liam Madden  |  03-20-2008  |  Commentary

Dems Call for Torture Tapes Investigation: Should I Care?new

We've got several high-profile cases of outright contempt in those investigations already, with no substantive response by the Democratic-led committees in question, which would seem to call into question their actual commitment to such things.
Dig Boston  |  Hunter  |  12-13-2007  |  Commentary

Protofascism with Bright, Patriotic Logosnew

It's long past time for people to stop treating Fox-style, Malkin-style, Limbaugh-style conservatism as merely a "political" phenomenon -- as of this millennium, it's nothing but a hate movement with neckties.
Dig Boston  |  Hunter  |  10-17-2007  |  Commentary

We Are All Mercenariesnew

Blackwater is not the problem, it is a symptom: A symptom of a rush to war on the cheap and without proper planning, and a symptom of our bias toward privatization combined with a failure to establish clear rules for just who these private contractors are accountable to.
Dig Boston  |  Baratunde Thurston  |  09-27-2007  |  Commentary

Campaign 2008: Of Fetuses and Fearmongeringnew

My conclusions: The Republicans are still wrong, the Democrats are still scared, and Rudy Giuliani is still an asshole.
Dig Boston  |  Baratunde Thurston  |  06-21-2007  |  Commentary

Our Doomed Countrynew

If you think of the American people as Ireland Baldwin, and America's divorced parents as Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, it appears that the only real solution for 2008 is for the courts to grant the custody of all American citizens to a nice foster country, like maybe Finland.
Dig Boston  |  Cintra Wilson  |  05-02-2007  |  Commentary

On Barack Obama and Blacknessnew

Black voters haven't quite joined Obama for President because, more than anyone else, they know America can't handle a black president.
Dig Boston  |  Baratunde Thurston  |  03-14-2007  |  Commentary

Dear Lisanew

One man's terrifying ordeal hunting with, and being hunted by, Dick Cheney.
Dig Boston  |  Seth Reiss  |  02-16-2006  |  Commentary

Backsliding USAnew

When are we finally going to learn to learn from history? Certainly not while "G. Dubya" -- or those funny monkey drawings of him -- are still around.
Dig Boston  |  J. Bennett  |  12-08-2005  |  Commentary

Soapbox: Bash This!new

Wondering how to succeed in national politics? Just make fun of the liberals in Massachusetts.
Dig Boston  |  Sarah Green  |  08-10-2005  |  Commentary

What's So Wrong About Lynching?new

Need the latest proof that politicians have gone off the deep end? Last week 16 senators chose not to support a resolution apologizing for years of the Senate's obstructing any and all attempts to pass national anti-lynching legislation.
Dig Boston  |  Seth McM. Donlin  |  06-22-2005  |  Commentary

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