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Bill Berkowitz at Alternet has a nice, in-depth interview with my friend and colleague Daniel Levitas. Much of the material will be familia...

George W. Bush's sketchy military record has finally surfaced as a campaign issue in 2004. It came out in last night's debate in New...

While I'm on the subject of conspiracy theories, it's worth observing, once again, that one of the chief reasons they arise is the f...

It's probably not surprising that any journalist or writer dealing in conspiracies winds up being accused, eventually, of trading in con...

Er, did anyone notice that Bush neglected to mention his glorious plans for going to Mars -- unveiled to great hoopla all of six days ago -...

By Nitra Pickler Associated Press Hack In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Bush declared that "Each day, law...

I normally avoid doing the reciprocal-link thing, but I have to mention that Patrick Nielsen Hayden has been blogging much along the same l...

Over at Atrios' comments, Mark D. Lew chimes in with an important perspective on the October Surprise matter : The ... passage you quo...

When I was a young reporter, one of my first major interviews was with then-Sen. Frank Church, the Idaho Democrat who gained a measure of fa...

Needlenose has an interesting take on the recent news that Halliburton is being investigated by the Pentagon Inspector General's offic...

I went down to Elliott Bay Books the other night to hear Kevin Phillips talk about his new book, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, an...

A longtime friend and expert on right-wing extremists -- who wishes to remain anonymous, but who, I should explain, was a significant source...

I've noted previously that chief among the progressive organizations being targeted by the far right anti-immigrant crowd for recruitme...

Judging by all the wailing and gnashing of teeth coming from the RNC over the two Bush/Hitler MoveOn.org ads, you'd never have guessed t...

More on the National Alliance targeting Florida lawyers: Hate mail targets lawyers It's worth noting that this isn't specificall...

Via Crooked Timber (and a tip from Jim Flannery), comes this remarkable and chilling piece from brushstroke.tv about the dangers of festoo...

I'm guessing it would be impolitic to fail to note that I'm a nominee in several categories in this year's (lefty bloggers) Kouf...

I've been remiss in pointing out that the Webzine Skreed has picked up my essay, "The Political and the Personal," and publi...

Speaking of the far right's manipulation of the immigration issue, the most recent WorldNetDaily screed by Patrick Buchanan is worth ch...

Reader Paul Donnelly writes in: FWIW, there's a kind of embedded confusion in your post about immigration extremists. It really is dif...