COMMENT: As a boy, I loved the Hollywood motion picture made from H.G. Wells’ novel The Time Machine. In that sci-fi classic, the world is transformed after a nuclear holocaust. Gentle survivors on the surface of the earth are raised and harvested for food by mutant cannibals called the Morlocks, who live underground. (One [...]
COMMENT: In the wake of the shooting in Arizona, many unanswered (and often unasked) questions suggest themselves. To do justice to the event will require more time and analysis than can be put into a Food For Thought post.
Sufficient analysis and discussion will necessarily have to wait for a For The Record program and [...]
Extremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin’s political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. “Her door was open,” says Chryson — and still is.
by Max Blumenthal and David NeiwertSalon.com
On the afternoon of Sept. 24 in downtown Palmer, Alaska, as the sun began to sink behind the snowcapped mountains that flank [...]
Imagine if the Obamas had hooked up with a violently anti-American group in league with the government of Iran.
By David TalbotSalon.com
“My government is my worst enemy. I’m going to fight them with any means at hand.”
This was former revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers back in his old Weather Underground days, right? Imagine what Sarah Palin is going to [...]
by Ben SmithPolitico.comThomas Frank noticed in the Journal today that Sarah Palin used an odd source for a quote in her announcement speech attributed only to a “writer.”
“We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity,” she said, drawing from a once-powerful, now forgotten mid-century conservative columnist named Westbrook Pegler.
It’s [...]
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