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Falsely accusing the Tea Party of murder
Liberal commentators’ rush to blame the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords on heated political rhetoric exposes their censoriousness and...
A dysfunctional moment in American history
Jared Loughner, the possibly deranged 22-year-old who opened fire on Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and an unlucky collection of citizens...
Free speech: the best defence against violent rhetoric
After the Arizona shooting, some are calling for legal restraint of political vitriol. But the answer is not less expression, but more. After the...
A Tale of Two Moralities
On Wednesday, President Obama called on Americans to “expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our...
No One Listened to Gabrielle Giffords
Of the many truths in President Obama’s powerful Tucson speech, none was more indisputable than his statement that no one can know what is in a...
The Tucson Witch Hunt
Immediately after the news broke, the air became thick with conjecture, speculation and innuendo. There was a giddy, almost punch-drunk excitement on...
Extremism's explosive effects remind us to take all things in moderation
Divisive, sound-bite politics does great harm to the cause of democracy. America is paying a high price for the demonising of democracy and smashing...
A pantomime battle for the soul of America
Both sides in the ‘Ground Zero mosque’ row are driven by the politics of fear and a disdain for their fellow Americans. Looking at the...
An everyday mockery of democracy in land of the free
Americans have always exploited the freedoms granted in the constitution. America's weirdness is well documented. And I don't mean just the plastic-...
Why BP is not very slick in an emergency
When companies adhere to the rituals of risk-aversion, they lose sight of how to deal with real emergencies. Now we can see the consequences. The...
Addicted to oil? What a dumb idea
The oil-addiction theorists are really disgusted by the desires of stupid, greedy, uppity consumers. Printer-friendly version Email-a-friend Respond...
The Tea Party? Get over it already
In their discussion of the Tea Party as ‘delirious’ and ‘unhinged’, liberals like Bill Clinton are exposing their own...
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