There is a great tendency in this country to refuse to see what is right in front of everybody’s eyes.

While there is now, finally, a great deal of talk among the politicians and in the news media about unemployment, there is still almost a willful refusal to focus on just who is suffering the most from joblessness and underemployment.

February 8, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist
America Is Not Yet Lost
By PAUL KRUGMAN
We’ve always known that America’s reign as the world’s greatest nation would eventually end. But most of us imagined that our downfall, when it came, would be something grand and tragic.

The pitbull in lipstick is back!
She's "tired of hearin' the talk talk talk" but Palin wowed Tea Party Nation Inc. with nastiness for fun and profit
Joan Walsh

North Dakota’s Tea partiers have decided to make life miserable for Gov. John Hoeven as he seeks to replace U.S. Sen. Byron Dorgan in the November election. Even though taxes have been cut significantly in North Dakota, the Tea Party people feel that Gov. Hoeven should be supporting more reductions and more refunds.