Understanding themselves as victims besieged by a hateful world absolves conservatives of responsibility for what goes on around them. It excuses them for...
I find myself speculating on what might have been if the man who got the most votes in 2000 had actually become president. It's like imagining an alternate...
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have been committed...
Rich white men still compose about 80 percent of the Senate, their average age is 62, and even those who call themselves Democrats often think and act like...
Be honest. Who would you rather share a foxhole with: a gay soldier or Mitt Romney? A gay soldier, of course. In a dicey situation like that, you need someone...
The prevailing models of leadership today have been the leader as panderer or the leader as fear monger. -- Arianna Huffington Our way of life -- our...
High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. -- Emma Goldman Marriage is...
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- Groucho Marx For social conservatives sex is a realm of danger, where any transgression from...
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. -- Dante Teach your children to regard the land...
When I got the opportunity to start working at home a couple of years ago, I jumped at the chance, envisioning the huge spike in productivity that would...
Most of the leading Democrats in the country refer to themselves as progressives, a way in their case of avoiding the dreaded "liberal" tag. . . . It has...
I am a progressive first and a Democrat second. -- Julie Bergman Sender Rigorous, creative teaching, not kill-and-drill test-driven instruction, fosters...
More young men are killed each day on the streets of America than on the worst days of carnage and loss in Iraq. -- John P. Pryor Liberals believe government...
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. -- Eric Hoffer Why do...
The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God's greatest gift to us, the bedrock of this nation. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better...
The people who still say that global warming isn't real are actually in the same boat with the flat earth society. They get together and party on Saturday...
The cosmos isn't designed with you in mind. -- Christopher Hitchens Iraq is, and forever will be, one of the most extraordinary wastes in all of American...
This is what George W. Bush's war comes down to: The death of innocents for a senseless war, led by a man who shirked his own duty during a time of war. --...
Live simply so that others may simply live. -- Bumper sticker Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees and then names the streets after them. --...
Today, "liberal" is just another word for "not nuts". -- Eric Alterman Management: The folks who brought you the Labor Movement -- Bumper sticker You see, they...
You need certification in this country to be a butcher, a barber or a manicurist, but only 12 states require any training to take care of children. -- Gail...
The legal status of abortion doesn't predict whether abortions occur. It predicts whether they are safe. -- Gilda Sedgh Thirty years of study into the...
Americans too often teach their children to despise those who hold unpopular opinions. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt,...
New Rule: In honor of daylight savings time, Republican candidates must say whether or not they believe the days getting shorter proves that the Earth revolves...
All through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they...
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. -- Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. After...
There are millions of men who actually feel confident that women's freedom doesn't erode their own strength and sexuality and humanity. To those men, I say...
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Sexuality is not a choice—it is a natural, immutable...
The left need to recognize this new paradigm. The media is no longer in the business of truth, or advocacy of the public good. -- Steve Almond FOX is not per...
Dear Fellow Lefties, I've renamed this weekly mailing to reflect the title my new book "What Liberals Believe." (It's still free -- no strings attached.) The...
