I would have preferred to hear Obama announce the immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. But I understand why he is moving forward with a "surge" in Afghanistan and, as Steve Benen notes, he told us this is what he was going to...

The idea that some hacked email accounts at some university in Great Britain have exposed a grand conspiracy among scientists around the globe to manufacture an elaborate hoax about global warming is completely ludicrous. People that are buying into...

Charles Johnson, the man behind the popular wingnut blog Little Green Footballs, has cut ties with the wingnutosphere. He explained his decision in this post on his blog – Why I Parted Ways With The Right 1. Support for fascists, both in America...

Texas is losing a big military contract to Wisconsin and Republican politicians across the state are now left with egg on their face. The Pentagon's decision to shift the production of Army trucks from Texas to Wisconsin after 17 years caught Texas'...

I've always considered myself to be a Christian. My mother's family was Southern Baptist and my father's family was Methodist. Early on we attended Baptist churches and my first memories of Sunday School are from a Baptist Church in Indiana. Later on...