AltWeeklies Wire
Is Obama Overdoing the 'Just Folks' Thing?new
Obama's taking this availability thing too far. An appearance on ESPN to discuss his bracket picks in the upcoming NCAA tournament, exchanging high fives with one of the Wizards' rowdy fans, and appearing on a late-night TV talk show. What can we look forward to next week, Mr. President, an appearance on American Idol maybe?
The Memphis Flyer |
Marty Aussenberg |
03-23-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Barack Obama, publicity
International Rights Forum Addresses Free Speechnew
The ability to articulate how a society should be ordered, in response to such world-changing struggles, rests not just on the struggles themselves, but also on the public's access to the literary, and visual forms, as vehicles for addressing and digesting such transformative events.
Random Lengths News |
Slobodan Dimitrov |
03-21-2009 |
Commentary
Crisis, Corruptions and Incompetencenew
No matter which way government tries to solve its budget deficit spending these days, they are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
03-21-2009 |
Commentary
The Time Has Come to Talk About Boosting the Minimum Driving Agenew
We harangue our teenagers about sexually transmitted infections, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, the violent content of video games, mass-produced entertainment, even guns. Yet according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, motor-vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers.
Tucson Weekly |
Catherine O'Sullivan |
03-19-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: commentary, teenage driving
Is the Global Economic Crisis Going to Lead to Another World War?new
With planet Earth experiencing its deepest and widest recession since the 1930s, there are millions more hungry men today than there were just a couple years ago. Anger must be on the rise as well.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
03-18-2009 |
Commentary
From Torture to Bailouts, Change You Can Parse
From torture to bailout to presidential assassinations of U.S. citizens, Barack Obama is fighting to keep Bush-era policies in place.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
03-17-2009 |
Commentary
Institutional Inertia: The Corps of Engineersnew
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has failed to draft a Congress-mandated plan for Category 5 hurricane protection and coastal restoration for Louisiana. It's time for the president to step in.
Gambit |
Gambit Weekly Staff |
03-17-2009 |
Commentary
Reasons To Be Cheerful, 1-9
Everything's going to hell. But there's a lot of reasons for optimism in an age of suckitude.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
03-10-2009 |
Commentary
I Am the Fat Man on the Leftnew
Although he disgusted me so much I took it upon myself to stake a claim to being the Fat Man on the Left, I felt a strange kinship with Rush Limbaugh. The kinship was based on both of us being too fat. I was and remain easily as hefty as Limbaugh was and is becoming so again.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
03-07-2009 |
Commentary
Let Them Eat Pillsnew
If you think bankers are corrupt, be sure you give doctors their due.
Jackson Free Press |
Brian Johnson |
03-06-2009 |
Commentary
Who Are These Republicans? And Why Are They the Hope of White Conservatives?new
To counter their reputation of being the party of old, crotchety white men bellowing on talk radio that they are losing the country to the blacks, the browns and the gays, the Grand Old Party has recently put forward a couple of new faces of color.
New York Press |
Jamaal Young |
03-05-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: commentary, Republican Party
The Fuzziness of Human Rightsnew
On the anniversary of its legal birth, the concept is losing its interpretive luster.
East Bay Express |
Jay Youngdahl |
03-04-2009 |
Commentary
We Want a Single-Payer Healthcare System, But Obama's Baby Steps Are a Good Startnew
What we know about healthcare is that the system we have doesn’t work, that costs are rising far faster than incomes, that it makes no sense to burden private business with having to provide care for the workforce and that a for-profit insurance model encourages the denial of treatment.
San Diego CityBeat |
San Diego CityBeat |
03-04-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Healthcare, commentary
Leave Bobby Jindal Alone!new
Video: Who is this guy? We'd rather not say. But we feel his pain. We really do.
The Memphis Flyer |
Staff |
02-27-2009 |
Commentary
CEO-Bashing for Fun and Profit
Bashing CEOs is fun, but misses the point.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
02-25-2009 |
Commentary
