Sunday Afternoon News Roundup Although Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has stated that his country is close to achieving its objective, it is hard for me to imagine what that objective is. If the objective is chaos, starvation and causing more Palestinians to hate you intensely, then perha...

Got to be good looking'cause he's so hard to seeCome together right nowOver me—The Beatles, "Come Together" (1969) [YouTube] Bob Herbert just doesn't get it.  As Noel Sheppard has noted, in his NYT column today Herbert accuses Barack Obama of "lurching right when it suits him, and ...

Some days Bob Herbert hits it out of the proverbial (brand new, multi-million dollar) ball park: There are signs galore of the nation’s turn for the worse. We are fighting a debilitating war in Iraq without any idea of how to pay for it — or how to end it. No one has any real idea about how to c...

Here's old Geraldine Ferraro on the teevee again, prattling on to Fox News' Shep Smith about how Sexist Barack Obama and his goons in the media are. Considering that Ferraro is a Democrat, and that the more she runs her mouth about Obama hating women, the more Hillary's women will vote for John McCa...

In the second half of today's "As The Left Eat Their Own," the New York Times' Bob Herbert goes after Democrats for "doing everything they can to blow this presidential election." And that was just the first sentence of his scathing rebuke of all things currently left-leaning. Wi...

bob herbert in today's nyt... The U.S., once the greatest can-do country on the planet, now can’t seem to do anything right. The great middle class has maxed out its credit cards and drained dangerous amounts of equity from family homes. No one can seem to figure out how to generate the growth in ...

"The opening of a trapdoor and the sudden snap of a hangman's noose at dawn yesterday brought an extraordinary end to a political era in Iraq." -- Opening line from The Guardian's report of the execution of Saddam, Dec. 31, 2006 "Senator Clinton never gave a second thought to opening ...

Ahhh. I feel semi-validated. After my ranting about how Bob Herbert’s criticisms of Las Vegas and sex work were anti-feminist I finally feel like someone of credibility agrees. Bob Herbert is not a feminist hero, despite what Jill and Jessica think. He’s a misguided feminist ally who rel...