With several peacekeepers and holders of dual citizenship dead, Russia's response was shockingly limited, especially in comparison to America's pre-emptive strikes and ongoing occupations.

Other nations have dealt with this and survived -- Chile, Greece, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Argentina, the former Soviet Union and many others. It is a well-worn path to freedom by perseverance and courage...

What we see today is not the $25 billion estimated by the Congressional Budget Office, but a temporary fix to kick the can down the road until January 20th when Bush leaves office and Barack Obama can be assigned the blame for what will undoubtedly occur.

The vast majority of Republicans are yellow-bellied cowards eager to be frightened by whatever tall tales are spun their way -- be afraid of the gays, the gun-takers, black people or Hispanics, terrorists, the candidate with the funny name ...

When it comes time for the rest of us to make what ought to be very private and personal decisions about when and whether to have children, Palin wants the government to come in and make those decisions for you...

The Republican reaction to the hurricane is so disgusting on so many levels it is nearly impossible to name them all.

The police and the judge hope to gum up the works for a few days, effectively preventing the protest planners from holding their planned protests during the Republican Convention. It's reminiscent of what the New York Police Department did four years ago.

McCain relishes jokes regarding women -- what bigger joke than an anti-women's rights Presidential candidate picking an anti-women's rights woman as VP? Can't you just hear McCain laughing about it among friends?

By now it should be clear to anyone with a functioning mind that our political process has become a mere matter of theater designed to conceal the fact that our country has become a corporate pirates' nest...

The Long Haul Infoshop is Grand Central Station for the far left in Northern California. Seizing the computers, the mail, the contents of the file cabinets is a crippling blow to all kinds of local activists, groups and causes...