Archives for Best Web OpEds
August 2010
Tuesday, August 31:
Don Smith: Have pity on your dear neighbors!
Sheila Samples: Joe Conason - Is Glenn Beck mobilizing the religious right for November?
Sheila Samples: Steve Benen: Poll Shows 10 Point GOP Lead -- But Is It Accurate? (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: After Saddam, America's Next Fake Enemy: Deficits
Kevin Gosztola: In the face of Islamophobia
Kevin Gosztola: Glenn Beck's rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected--the Waterworld of white self-pity.
Sheila Samples: Glenn Beck's rally recap is one way to fill an hour
Aziz Abu Sarah: Aziz Abu Sarah
GLloyd Rowsey: The Nuclear Winter (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Netanyahu Reneges on Freeze, Rabbi Calls for Plague to Kill all Palestinians; On Eve of Obama's Peace Talks
Monday, August 30:
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Obama needs to relearn the art of politicking (2 comments)
Jeffrey Toney: The 35 inch Survival Test by Jeffrey H. Toney (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: The floods in Pakistan and the American response
Sheila Samples: Steve Benen: Bigots Torch Religious Site in Tenessee
Sheila Samples: Billionaire Who Denies Connection to Tea Parties Addressed Crowd at Glenn Beck Rally (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: It's Witch-Hunt Season
Sunday, August 29:
Sheila Samples: PowerPoints 'R' Us
Margaret Bassett: Tax Justice Network Lays out Agenda
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party (3 comments)
Saturday, August 28:
Sheila Samples: Jonathan Alter: How Obama Can Fight the Lies
Sheila Samples: Why General Petraeus' Assassination Inc. Threatens Us All
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert - Glenn Beck in Washington - America is Better Than This
Friday, August 27:
Diane V. McLoughlin: On the Mosque - Muslims Are Not Our Enemies (5 comments)
Diane V. McLoughlin: Reactions to American Extremism (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Leonard Pitts Jr. -- This is who 'we' really is, Glenn
Sheila Samples: Assange: The Amazing Adventures of Captain Neo in Blonde Land...
Margaret Bassett: For Social Security, a Birthday Makeover
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Obama and the Economy: An Exertion Gap?
Sheila Samples: Joe Conason: The Billionaire Right-Winger
Ted Newcomen: Man faces jail for YouTube video of traffic stop - Chris Matyszczyk (1 comments)
Daniel Geery: 10 Steps to Start Dismantling America's Destructive Military Empire
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: This Is Not a Recovery
Thursday, August 26:
Margaret Bassett: Detroit 'Rebuild America' March, King's Dream And The Tea-Party Hijack
Sheila Samples: Mehlman Comes Out
Sheila Samples: Israeli-Palestinian talks part of preparations for US aggression against Iran (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Treasury Makes Shocking Admission: Program for Struggling Homeowners Just a Ploy to Enrich Big Banks
Margaret Bassett: Fire Alan Simpson (1 comments)
Nikk Katzman: Editorial Cartoons - Remembering Senator Ted Kennedy
Robert Arend: Gene Lyons: To all real journalists: Stop being such cowards!
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Fire Alan Simpson (4 comments)
Sheila Samples: Baghdad weary amid pullout and death
Sheila Samples: Facebook devolves into dark web of anonymous hate speech
Wednesday, August 25:
Sheila Samples: David Corn: 'Ground Zero Mosque': A Conservative Undermines His Own Crusade
Sheila Samples: Co-Chair of Obama's 'Fiscal Commission' Calls Social Security a 'Milk Cow with 310 Million Tits'
Sheila Samples: Editorial - Wrong Direction on Stem Cells (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Barry Saunders: Bill of Rights includes us all
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Gulf Oil Spill: Rick Steiner Got BP Disaster Right From The Beginning, Warns Crisis Is Far From Over
Sheila Samples: Bill Boyarsky: Fox and Friends Trying to Bully and Buy Their Way Back to Power
Sheila Samples: The billionaire Koch brothers' war against Obama (1 comments)
Josh Mitteldorf: Who wants Never-ending War, and Why? by Joshua Holland (5 comments)
Sheila Samples: Mark Morford: America out of Iraq now! Oh wait (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: House Republican Leader John Boehner Misses Investment Boom
Sheila Samples: Ruth Marcus - Boehner's cheap opposition strategy
Margaret Bassett: "Tit Man" Alan Simpson Makes An Ass of Himself (1 comments)
Nikk Katzman: Waiting for Superman: Thomas Friedman on Education
Sheila Samples: Mossad in America (3 comments)
Tuesday, August 24:
Sheila Samples: Laurence Kotlikoff: Retiree Ponzi Scheme Is $16 Trillion Short (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Boehner Monologue Called Out
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - The right-wing, blinded by its own hysteria
Scott Baker: Alan Krinsky: 8 Reasons Leftists Should be Pro-Israel (26 comments)
Sheila Samples: Stephen M. Walt : The "Peace Process" is Still Going Nowhere
Monday, August 23:
Sheila Samples: GORDON DUFF: 9/11 PLANNERS CONFESS ON NETWORK TELEVISION (2 comments)
J. Edward Tremlett: How Fox Betrayed Petraeus, by Frank Rich
Sheila Samples: On the Way Down: The Erosion of America's Middle Class (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Pro-Israel extremists have campaigned against an Islamic cultural center before
Rev. Robert Vinciguerra: An Anti-American Religious Group Is Building Houses of Worship Near Ground Zero and They Must Be Stopped Now! (50 comments)
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Why won't the GOP say 'no' to extremism?
Margaret Bassett: Google Is from Mars; Facebook Is from Venus
Margaret Bassett: U.S. Morality Cop Who Can't Take a Political Frisk
Sheila Samples: Zach Morris: Report from ground zero
Sheila Samples: What You Will Not Hear About Iraq
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Bush Tax Cuts - Now That's Rich
Sunday, August 22:
Nikk Katzman: The Week in Editorial Cartoons (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: It's the Beginning of the End for the American Empire (2 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Looking for an American standard
Sheila Samples: Khalid Amayreh: Mosque and myth
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: How Fox Betrayed Petraeus
Saturday, August 21:
GLloyd Rowsey: The Mafia in Mexico: Fidel's Reflections on a Recent Book by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Fallout of Hate Is Spreading Across America from "Ground Zero"
Sheila Samples: Rep. Alan Grayson: Verizon & Google Want to Kill the Open Internet -- Media Mogul Confirms Their Bad Intentions
Dr Michael Salla: Bomb Iran? Craziest Idea of the Century (So Far) by Jack Matlock
Sheila Samples: Behind Obama Muslim myth stands the right wing
Margaret Bassett: The Fannie and Freddie Effect is Here Long Term
Sheila Samples: Robert Fisk: US troops say goodbye to Iraq
Mac McKinney: Economic Trends Forecaster: "Greatest Depression' Coming
Mac McKinney: Wayne Madsen Expose: Obama's CIA Heritage (3 comments)
Friday, August 20:
Joan Brunwasser: Why the Unfolding Disaster in Pakistan Should Concern You (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Guestworker Group Exposes Forced Labor in Tennessee
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: Questions Mount About White House's Overly Rosy Report On Oil Spill
Meryl Ann Butler: Target Tries to Buy Election, Artists Respond Theatrically!
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - President Obama's winning streak
Jeffrey Toney: Uncertainty, Human Health and a Manhattan-Sized Toxic Soup by Jeffrey Toney
martinweiss: Sorting out lies and misremembering, by Bill McClellan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2 comments)
Scott Baker: Senator (D-VT) Bernie Sanders: Letter to National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Declassified: Massive Israeli Manipulation of US Media Exposed
Sheila Samples: Playing the Never Again Card, Again
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Appeasing the Bond Gods
Thursday, August 19:
Ned Lud: The Purpose Behind Engineered Economic Collapse (1 comments)
Rev. Robert Vinciguerra: Hey! Sarah Palin" Shut Up About Dr. Laura! by Jessica Moccio
Michael Collins: anaxarchos: The Middle Class (2 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: There Is No Suffering From Which Good Cannot Come (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Jeff Gates: Playing the Never Again Card, Again
Sheila Samples: Coffee Party looks to change tone of political discourse
Sheila Samples: Other countries probing Bush-era torture -- Why aren't we?
Daniel Geery: 10 Principles for a New Economy
Wednesday, August 18:
Sheila Samples: Is Sharron Angle a Christian Reconstructionist?
Sheila Samples: Mark Morford: Thank God global warming is a hoax
Sheila Samples: Robert Scheer: Ground Zero for Tolerance
Kevin Gosztola: The Mosque and the Democrats
Tuesday, August 17:
martinweiss: People Before Profits, the Hindu Newspaper of India
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Elizabeth Warren or Bust!
Joan Brunwasser: Hospital Accounting: It’s Complicated (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: No "Graceful Exit"
Sheila Samples: Eugene Robinson - Republicans pander over 'Ground Zero mosque'
Margaret Bassett: The Public Pension Outrage and Alan Greenspan's Pension
Dennis Kaiser: Is an International Financial Conspiracy Driving World Events? :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Fore (1 comments)
Monday, August 16:
Sheila Samples: Jobless millions signal death of the American dream for many (3 comments)
Diane V. McLoughlin: Diane V. McLoughlin FREE GAZA - dialogue with an Israel supporter
Dennis Kaiser: Will Quantitative Easing By The Federal Reserve Unleash Economic Hell?
Sheila Samples: What Should A Poor Warmongering Neoconservative Do?
Sheila Samples: Eric Margolis: Punishing the WikiLeaker misses the point
Sheila Samples: Shameless Schemers Like Sarah Palin, the Tea Partiers and Right-Wing Christians Trying to Start a New Religious War Agai
Margaret Bassett: Obama Wins Low Yields as Markets Shrink, Aiding Deficit
Sheila Samples: Misled on Medicare
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Attacking Social Security (5 comments)
Sunday, August 15:
Rev. Robert Vinciguerra: Fox News' Glenn Beck Explains How Tea Party Gatherings Aren't Racist (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: What Social Security Can Teach Us About the Future of Health Care
Saturday, August 14:
Sheila Samples: Explaining Murder: Israeli Hasbara in Full Swing
Sheila Samples: Why Petraeus Can't Make The Sale (1 comments)
Curt Day: Mr. Krauthammer, Only God Determines What Is Sacred (1 comments)
Native American: Obama closes curtain on transparency (6 comments)
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Fire and Imagination
Friday, August 13:
Sheila Samples: Is Obama Playing with Nuclear Fire in Iran and Korea?
Sheila Samples: VIDEO: East Texan Louie Gohmert lacks evidence of "terror babies" so he just yells at Anderson Cooper
Sheila Samples: Social Security Keeps 20 Million Americans Out Of Poverty, Report Finds
Margaret Bassett: Countdown to Collapse: The Recovery Is Not Recovering (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Now We Know What Public Wants - Get Candidates On The Record (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Politicians Beware: Voters Want the Employment Crisis Fixed--Mess with Social Security or Deficits, You're Toast (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Why the Deadly Attack on the Freedom Flotilla Was the Breakthrough That Made the World See Israel's Cruelty in Gaza
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Paralysis at the Federal Reserve
Sheila Samples: Dan Froomkin: White House Ethics Initiatives At A Crossroads
Margaret Bassett: Wells Fargo Overdraft Scam Makes Elizabeth Warren More Important Than Ever
Rev. Robert Vinciguerra: Dr. Laura Schlessinger on the N-Word - Her New Book
Mac McKinney: Why is the White House BP's Punk? Following One Money Trail Leads to BlackRock
Thursday, August 12:
Margaret Bassett: Wells Fargo Overdraft Scam Makes Elizabeth Warren More Important Than Ever
Sheila Samples: Dana Milbank - Robert Gibbs keeps jabbing the left
Sheila Samples: Jeffrey Goldberg: The Point of No Return (3 comments)
Wednesday, August 11:
Margaret Bassett: Rangel - the Lion Or the Sacrificial Lamb?
Margaret Bassett: Has The Washington Post Gone Mad? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: :Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett: The Weak Case for War with Iran
Sheila Samples: Esquire: Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican
Sheila Samples: Days of Rage -- The Noxious Transformation of the Conservative Movement into a Rabid Fringe
Don Smith: Gibbs on the Left: Blame Corporate Dems, not Progressives (1 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Wall Street Money Flows to GOP
Sheila Samples: 14th Amendment: why birthright citizenship change 'can't be done' - CSMonitor.com
Tuesday, August 10:
Mac McKinney: Did Matt Simmons Accidently Drown in his Hot Tub or Was He "East-Rivered"?
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: The Horror Show
Margaret Bassett: This Economy Stinks, Yes It Does
Sheila Samples: Newt Gingrich's Justification for Cheating on Sick Wife While Preaching Family Values (3 comments)
Scott Baker: Obama vs. Obama on Endless Wars: Who Wins - Take the Poll (5 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Google Goes Totally "Evil" -- Wants to Destroy the Internet That Made It So Rich (1 comments)
Monday, August 9:
Sheila Samples: VIDEO: Sarah Palin Confronts Alaska Protester With 'Worst Governor Ever' Sign (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Eric Margolis: It all boils down to oil (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - Chris Dodd, the Senate's happy warrior
Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Reform Jewish Movement Welcomes Mosque
Margaret Bassett: The Litmus Test on Elizabeth Warren (2 comments)
Margaret Bassett: Pat Tillman's Mother on McChrystal: I Told You So (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Filibusters and arcane obstructions in the Senate
Rev. Robert Vinciguerra: Conservatives Discover US Constitution
Sheila Samples: Pat Tillman's mother on Stanley McChrystal: I told you so (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: America Goes Dark (5 comments)
Sunday, August 8:
Sheila Samples: WikiLeaks and the war in Afghanistan
Sheila Samples: Gideon Levy: Missing the forest
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: How to Lose an Election Without Really Trying
Sheila Samples: Disturbing Incident at al-Arakib
Saturday, August 7:
Sheila Samples: Reflections of Fidel: A call to the President of the United States
M. Wizard: The Critical Unraveling of U.S. Society (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: BP and WH Cover-up of Evidence of Catastrophe: Thousands of Dead Seabirds Bagged and Buried
Margaret Bassett: Elizabeth Warren: My Mission Is to Restore America's Great Middle Class (11 comments)
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: Putting Our Brains on Hold (1 comments)
Rev. Robert Vinciguerra: Mitt Romney - Brain Eating Zombie for President 2010 (1 comments)
Dennis Kaiser: The Hindu : News / International : Chinese missile could shift Pacific power balance (2 comments)
GLloyd Rowsey: From Britain: An Apology Fatally Devalued by the Passage of 65 Years (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Gwynne Dyer: Nothing short of nukes will work
Friday, August 6:
Sheila Samples: Fareed Zakaria: Build the Ground Zero Mosque (4 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: Google-Verizon Deal: The End of The Internet as We Know It-- : ICH - Information Clearing House
Steven G. Erickson: Gay Tea Partiers Discuss Marriage And Bigotry
Steven G. Erickson: What is the point of the Senate? [Ezra Klein]
Margaret Bassett: Congress OK'd Gitmo Prisoner's Deportation To Algeria, Despite His Fears Of Torture Upon Return
Sheila Samples: Stanley Kutler: 65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman's Choices
Linda Milazzo: Israeli Settlers Step Up 'Price Tag' Policy
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Tucker Carlson's Journalistic Purity Test
Ernest Canning: Plumbing the Depths of Lawless Executive Depravity by Ernest A. Canning
Diane V. McLoughlin: Diane V. McLoughlin - No More Hiroshimas Republicans - Lets Make a Deal (1 comments)
B. Ross Ashley: The BRAD BLOG : AlterNet: Rightwing DIGG Group Caught 'Burying' Stories From The BRAD BLOG, Other Progressives
Sheila Samples: Xenophobia - Fear-Mongering for American Votes
Sheila Samples: Hiroshima and the Art of Outrage
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: The Flimflam Man
Thursday, August 5:
Sheila Samples: Gideon Levy: Only we're allowed (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: John Pilger: Blair must be arrested
Ted Newcomen: US Food inflation spiraling out of control (1 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Anthony Weiner: Why I Was Angry (1 comments)
Joan Brunwasser: Dems, embrace the fighter within: Anthony Weiner & Alan Grayson know how to cut through clutter
Wednesday, August 4:
Joan Brunwasser: Bob Fitrakis: ATMs are easy to hack--and so are e-voting machines!
Sheila Samples: Why the U.S. Won't Cut Ties with Israel, No Matter How Extreme Its Government Gets
Margaret Bassett: Top Economist Says Expand Social Security. Tell The Politicians: Don't Cut It.
Sheila Samples: David Corn: Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty
Sheila Samples: Military: No Afghan Embed for Rolling Stone Reporter
Sheila Samples: Anthony Weiner - Why I Was Angry
Kevin Gosztola: Crazy Muslim conspiracy theories
Daniel Geery: Most Important Article I've Read
Sheila Samples: Coming Home
Tuesday, August 3:
Daniel Geery: THE Speech the World NEEDS to Hear (and heed)
GLloyd Rowsey: Cartoons by Tomy from Granma International (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: GOP House Members Are Setting the Stage for Investigations of Obama
Mac McKinney: End of Iraq Combat Operations or Downsized Occupation, Rebranded and Privatized?
Sheila Samples: Obama Warned Israel May Bomb Iran
Daniel Geery: 1 Afghan Civilian = 6 U.S. Soldiers
Sheila Samples: The truth about global warming (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Rand Paul in Kentucky: Campaign 2010's Most Important Senate Contest
Sheila Samples: Bob Herbert: The Lunatic's Manual
Margaret Bassett: Will The GOP Senators Whose States Face Thousands Of Teacher Layoffs Vote Against Teacher Funding? (1 comments)
Monday, August 2:
Don Smith: The Warren Mystery - Paul Krugman -- Is Obama an Idiot? (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Elizabeth Warren: My Mission Is to Restore America's Great Middle Class (1 comments)
Sheila Dean: How to Spot a Mexican: Revised SB1070 reasonable suspicion standards -
Sheila Samples: Filibusters and arcane obstructions in the Senate
Sheila Samples: The "Summer Camp Of Destruction:" Israeli High Schoolers Assist The Razing Of A Bedouin Town
Sheila Samples: Eric Margolis: Pakistan no obedient ally
Sheila Samples: Eight years after the torture memo, Obama should take a hard look back
Sheila Samples: E.J. Dionne Jr. - The auto industry lives. Can we admit that government intervention worked? (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Filibuster Reform: Dems Push for Rules Change in Senate
Sheila Samples: Stuart Littlewood: Middle East history buff Hague whitewashes Israel's villainy on the high seas
Sheila Samples: Mohammed Hanif: In Pakistan, Echoes of American Betrayal
Sunday, August 1:
Sheila Samples: Paul Krugman: Defining Prosperity Down
Sheila Dean: Why the Intelligence Community Needs GAO Oversight - Newsweek
Don Smith: George Carlin's Final Words To The World (Facebook | Videos Posted by Jay Cole)
Sheila Samples: Iran Encircled: Two US Congressional Resolutions, One World War (3 comments)
Kevin Gosztola: The sound of bubbles bursting: Student gains on state test vanished into thin air
E. T. SIMON: Obama, and the man in the mirror Tussell & Tussell (1 comments)
martinweiss: Four Deformations of the Apocalypse, by David Stockman (2 comments)
Sheila Samples: Frank Rich: Kiss This War Goodbye (1 comments)
Sheila Samples: Valerie Plame Wilson: The Power of Zero
Margaret Bassett: The Power of Zero (1 comments)