In case there was any question about the granularity of the honor Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin want to restore, yesterday at the Lincoln Memorial while they besmirched the memory of Martin Luther King Jr on the anniversary of his great speech about his great dream — look no farther than two of Glenn Beck’s [...]

Can Humboldt create a pot tourism industry like Napa’s wine tourism industry, and to a smaller extent Los Olivos, and build on what is already there in the gorgeous county? Does it want to?

Tuesday night, President Obama will address the nation to mark the supposed end of combat operations in Iraq. He has already been claiming to have kept his campaign promise to end the war but conveniently downplays the 49,000 US troops still there and the 4,500 or so Special Forces – and the uncounted contractors.

Hubert Humphrey lost in 1968 to the monster Richard Nixon. Should anti-war activists have worked hard for his election?

Presidential Deficit Commission member Erskine Bowles is as bad as Alan Simpson.

What matters to young women? Are we feminists? What do we care about? How are these things different in different areas of the country? These are the issues addressed by 26-year-old Nona Willis Aronowitz and her childhood friend, Emma Bee Bernstein in their new paperback Girldrive. The two authors drove across the country and interviewed 200 young women, along with some of the mothers of their interviewees, and the mothers of Second and Third Wave Feminism.

Rank creep is almost more pernicious than mission creep.

Obama is planning a big week. On Tuesday, he will address the nation on the supposed end to combat operations in Iraq, on Wednesday he will oversee the start of supposed peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. Of course, the democratically elected leaders of Palestine are not invited, only Mahmoud Abbas who “unilaterally extended his term” as President of the Palestinian National Authority, a term which ended in 2009.

We should all be thankful to Glenn Beck and The Quitter, because they’ve finally ripped the “libertarian” mask off the Teabaggers — once and for all. If there was a single theme at yesterday’s Beckstallnacht rally in Washington, it was Allah.

Professor Uwe Rhinehardt may be opening the door to reconsideration of the role of economists in deciding social policy. It’s about time.