The recent release of the Thornburg-Boccardi report about the fraudulent memos used by CBS News in a report about President Bush’s National Guard service has sparked gloating on the behalf of many Republicans. Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Ed Gillespie said, “The public has made their judgment: They know the President served and was honorably...

There is a shadowy and insidious force lurking throughout America, a force so powerful and ubiquitous that it has found its way into the lifestyles of an increasing number of “average” Americans. This force threatens the very foundations of our society and can easily be declared the Greatest Threat to Democracy. What is it to...

Those of us still paying attention to the news coming out of Iraq (an increasingly and depressingly small number) have of late been assured by the Bush administration that the insurgency can be attributed almost entirely to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist with alleged ties to Osama bin Laden. Vice President Dick Cheney even mentioned...