“Where do we go from here? The battles done and we kind of won. So we sound our victory cheer. Where do we go from here?” – Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode ‘Once more with feeling’. So where do we go from here? That is the question that Republicans must ask themselves after Tuesday’s midterm [...]

Like moths to a flame, members of the Tea Party movement have found themselves attracted to a dream ticket of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to square off against incumbent Barack Obama and thus restore the nation’s honor. Restoring honor apparently has something to do with stemming the tide of marriage-minded gay Mexican Muslim Marxists [...]

You’ve seen this happen whenever kids compete on the playground: one child fails in spectacular fashion, and immediately issues a plaintive cry for a “do-over.” So it goes in the Pachyderm Party, where tea partyists listen to luminaries like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck drive the level of discourse down to grade-school levels. Having failed [...]

The emergence of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as a viable standard-bearer for the Republicans (placing a respectable third in New Hampshire after winning the Iowa caucuses) has left conservative commentators almost apoplectic. But some of those people howling the loudest are the very same people who made Huckabee’s candidacy not only likely, but also [...]

After listening to Rush Limbaugh’s non-apology to US soldiers who don’t support the War on Terror, and after listening to Ann Coulter’s non-defense of a type of antisemitism that hasn’t been part of mainstream thought since about 1590 or so, I have come to the following conclusion: Everything the right says to tear down the [...]

You can’t build a movement on a philosophy that ultimately consumes its members. This is the lesson that has been lost on The Imperial Klans of America, who have set up shop in the tiny Western Kentucky city of Dawson Springs. The group, which claims at least 23 chapters in 17 states, has taken over [...]

I wonder if Michelle Malkin is willing to put her children where her mouth is. Malkin, the always disagreeable right-wing commentator, came down on actress Sally Field’s speech during Emmy broadcast Sunday night. Mrs. Field said this: “If mothers ruled the, ruled the world, there would be no god-damned wars in the first place.” Mrs. [...]

Much has been written about the upcoming reports on the US military efforts in Iraq. Words like redeployment and withdraw have been bandied about, but the favorite in the language of conservatives is surrender. Typical usage: “The defeatist democrats want us to surrender in Iraq.” But the literal definition of surrender at least suggests that [...]

When it comes to the stock market, there are bear markets, where more stocks are being sold than are being bought. When more stocks are being bought than being sold, thats called a bull market. And then we have right-wing water carrier Rush Limbaugh advising his listeners to stick with stock investments despite indications of [...]

Elizabeth Edwards has sworn off tangerines, and the right-wing has predictably gone bananas. “We’ve been moving back to ‘buy local,’” Mrs. Edwards said, outlining a trade policy that “acknowledges the carbon footprint” of transporting fruit. “I live in North Carolina. I’ll probably never eat a tangerine again,” she said, speaking of a time when the [...]