New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is perhaps the journalist most hated - and feared I suspect - by the likes of the O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, Scarborough right-wing lunatic fringe.
The most vile, perfidious and oprobrious action of the Bush administration during its reign of terror in the White House is its embrace of the use of torture in its desperate attempts to cover up and conceal it's failures and incompetence.
One of the most horrendous aspects of the wars in Afganistan and Iraq has been the adoption by the U.S. military of the practice of torturing citizens of those countries who are suspected of "terrorist" activities. A fact that is often overlooked is
The anti-abortion fanatics will stop at nothing, it seems, in their efforts to advance their narrow and bigoted agenda. One could only wish that these extremist hypocrites could show 1/10 the concern for living people as they do for unborn embryos a
Those of us who disagreed with the policies and actions of the Bush administration and voiced our disagreements were labeled as disloyal, unpatriotic, or worse. We knew those charges were not true and that the truth cannot be unpatriotic or disloyal.
This commentary exposes the error in the administration's argument that critics who say the war in Iraq is increasing terrorism are wrong, and argues that our reliance on the use of strength in Iraq is, in fact, causing an increase in terrorism. Agai
Many of us who opposed and spoke from the beginning of our opposition to Bush's unnecessary and illegal war of aggression in Iraq were immediately attacked as being unpatriotic, disloyal and even as being "traitors" to our country. I think that mos
Bush's determination to carve out for himself an imperial presidency becomes more obvious with rvrty passing week, or sometimes with each passing day. Along the way, we are becoming less and less the country that we have been so proud of for over 2