The only problem I have with Stephen Martin Kohn’s new book, The Whistleblower’s Handbook, is that it hadn’t been published when I was trying to decide two years ago whether or not to take the risk of speaking out against the health insurance industry.

Protests continue in Yemen as earlier hopes of Saleh’s departure have so far come to nothing. Today the Gulf States met and announced their support for replacing Saleh with a transitional government led by his Vice President with opposition involvement but one has to ask if this plan is really representative of opposition demands. Listen carefully to the young woman speaking yesterday in Sanaa at the Silent March to remember those killed by Saleh (sin the video, she addresses us in America directly.)

The notion that Democrats lost the 2010 midterms because liberals weren’t clapping loudly enough isn’t supported by the evidence. Democrats lost because they lost independents by 15 points, and independents don’t care what liberals think.

Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase are leeches. Why don’t they move to Singapore?

There’s a hole in the rhetorical bucket of America’s extreme right, a lacuna that reveals more than all their selfish dismissals of common purpose or their condemnations of egalitarian principles ever could.

Count among those disappointed in the budget deal that was forged oh-so-dramatically at the very last hour before government shutdown Michele Bachmann, chair of the House teabaggers.

Obama promised that US troops would be out of Iraq by the end of 2009 – well actually he played semantics and said “combat troops” but American voters believed that his election signaled the end of our occupation of Iraq.

Now we’re in 2011 and not only have we not left but Obama is angling to keep US forces in Iraq past the December 2011 deadline for the removal of all US forces.

“How do they do it? How do they manage to become more absurd every week?”

Pigs Is Pigs This Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon was released on January 9, 1937.

The inmates of Greater Wingnuttia bear countless obscure grudges — such as their longstanding detestation of Big Bird, Bert, Ernie, Snuffleupagus, and all the Sesame Street gang.