By Steve McNamara

A couple of weeks ago my son Kevin sent me the web address of a speech by Barack Obama, http://www.alternet.org/story/37695. The website is that of AlterNet, the organization … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

Talk about putting lipstick on a pig! The Republicans are justly famous for their practice of hanging misleading labels on programs. Clear Skies is a program to ignore … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has a new look almost every day. First it was a triumph of American military intelligence and airpower. Then it was evidence … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

Joe Nation and I are both surprised about the Sixth District Congressional Democratic primary, won by Lynn Woolsey with 64 percent of the vote.

Joe, who got 36 percent, … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

It’s been three years since Bush posed beneath the “Mission Accomplished” sign on the aircraft carrier. It’s been more than a year since Rummy wrote off the Iraq … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

All right, class, please pay attention. Today’s lesson is hypocrisy, the concept of hypocrisy.

Does anyone know what the word means? Anybody? All right, Hugh, what do you think … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

Most of the Republicans in Congress are freaking out over immigration. So are TV and radio wing nuts. I think I know why. They see a future United … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

I would have given big money to be in the room when somebody explained to George Bush the thrust of the 18-page letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

“Huh?” … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

The Democrats still haven’t figured out how to take back the country in the next elections, and they may not do it. But let’s take time out from … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

Consultants are the bane of politics these days, especially politics as practiced by Democrats.

That’s the message of several new books, most recently “Crashing the Gate” by Jerome Armstrong … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

You know the wheels are coming off the Bush wagon when The New York Times allows itself to run a funny headline over a story about the cries … [Keep reading >>]

Steve McNamara is on vacation. … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

Democrats have chuckled for years at Will Rogers’ nifty aphorism: “I belong to no organized political party. I’m a Democrat.”

It’s all too true, and it’s no joke, according … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

The Iraq war gets more outrageous by the day. It was horrible enough when people were blown up with guns and bombs. But now many of the victims, … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

Hubris is an interesting concept. That’s when false pride comes back and bites somebody in the butt. I love it when it happens. And it’s unfolding at the … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

“Organized bribery.”

Every now and again I’ve hung that tag on big-time American political action. Was I was being too harsh? Probably not.

I say so because in the past … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

There’s quite a fuss these days about perking up the lame American public school system, especially the very lame California system. American kids score way down on tests … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

My dictionary defines civil war as “A war between citizens of the same country.” The dictionary adds that religion is often the cause, especially if what’s involved is … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

No matter where you stand on the big fuss over Arabs managing U.S. ports, one nice side benefit is its effect on the brain of Rush Limbaugh. The … [Keep reading >>]

By Steve McNamara

Don’t those people in the Bush Administration ever learn? How about these two articles in Tuesday’s New York Times: The lede story on Page 1 had this … [Keep reading >>]