AltWeeklies Wire
Afghan War Lies
If the armies of another nation invade your country, there is no need to resort to lies to sell war. The battle is already joined. The threat is palpable. Anyone with a smidgen of patriotism and/or the instinct of self-preservation will rush to enlist. Mostly, this does not happen.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
09-14-2010 |
Commentary
Protofascism Comes to America
Racism is only one facet of a far more sinister political strain. It's more accurate to categorize the Tea Party as something the United States has never seen before, certainly not in such large numbers or as widespread: a protofascist movement.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
07-21-2010 |
Commentary
Political Learned Helplessness
Battered and bruised, with no apparent way out, the American electorate has plunged into a political state of learned helplessness as Republicans stand to benefit this fall.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
06-24-2010 |
Commentary
Coulda Shoulda Won't
Most of the time, the people in charge—the people responsible for what went wrong—were warned in advance. They simply chose to ignore the warnings.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-27-2010 |
Commentary
Tea Party: Why the Right Doesn't Get it
Progressives find much to like in Tea Partiers' calls for a return to core values embodied by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But only in theory.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-22-2010 |
Commentary
Free the Troops
If the military wants to attract smart young men and women like I used to be, with high test scores and clean criminal records, they're going to have to start treating recruits like employees, not slaves or indentured servants.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-14-2010 |
Commentary
Out-Republicaning the Republicans
Triangulation is a candidate's attempt to position himself above and between the left and the right. A Democrat, Clinton insulated himself from Republican attacks by appropriating many of their ideas. Obama is even more of a triangulator than Clinton.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
04-01-2010 |
Commentary
Damn! I Wish I Was a Republican
To guts, glory, and the Party of No. May we learn from them.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
03-18-2010 |
Commentary
Hey Tea Partiers... You're Leftists!
What unites the Tea Party, which is more or less symbiotically affiliated with the so-called "Patriot" movement, are three issues. First, they're Constitutional purists. Second, they want the federal government to shrink or go away entirely. Third: they want lower taxes and government spending. So why is the Tea Party seen as a right-wing movement?
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
02-17-2010 |
Commentary
Obama: Even Dumber Than Sarahcuda
Let's set aside the fiction that public officials care about the country. Let's accept an assumption that everyone else can get behind: Politicians are skilled at looking out for themselves. By this low standard, Obama is dumber than dumb. We're not talking Dubya dumb. We're not even talking Sarahcuda dumb.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
02-10-2010 |
Commentary
The Contrarian Manifesto
Acting like Chicken Little proven right — this time, the sky really is falling — government and business are making decisions that are the exact opposite of the right ones.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
02-02-2010 |
Commentary
Barack Obama: David Dinkins Redux
Obama is much like David Dinkins, elected in 1989 as New York City's first black mayor. Dinkins, an affable Democrat, made the mistake of thinking that African-Americans were his political base. They weren't. White liberals were.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
01-19-2010 |
Commentary
The Fear Decade
Home of the free and the brave. Live free or die. Shoot first; ask questions later. Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out. These were the mottos of a brash, impetuous, audacious-to-a-fault nation. That nation is dead.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
12-28-2009 |
Commentary
Obama's 'Good Enough' Revolution
In the world of ideas, President Obama has come to symbolize the triumph of Good Enough. Obama, along with his PR flacks and Congressional allies, loves to paraphrase Voltaire: "Let not the perfect be the enemy of the good." Better to move forward incrementally than not at all.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
12-22-2009 |
Commentary
Existing Gun Laws Weren't Written With Presidential Death Threats in Mind
Make no mistake: guns don't have anything to do with health care. This is a revival of Klannism. A black man is president, and the good ol' boys don't like it. That's what this is about: putting him in his place. Which, if they or someone they inspire has their way, will be six feet under.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
08-24-2009 |
Commentary
