Stupidity has its privileges. Especially when you have an "Rev." in front of your name. Ask Rev. Terry Jones who plans to have his congregation (all 50) burn copies of the Quran. An entire nation and its leading general are pleading with him not to do such an obvious act of hatred, but to date, the man of God will not in any way budge from his mission: to "convert" Muslims away from Islam and prove its violence.

What is there to feel good about in our season of discontent? More than you think.

Dear Rahm Emanuel: Happy F*ckin' Labor Day! I read this week that -- according to a new book by Steven Rattner, your administration's former "Car Czar" -- during White House meetings about how to save the tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost if GM and Chrysler collapsed, your response was, "F*ck the UAW!"

New films about Wall Street and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commissionare avoiding fraud and hence missing the story, argues Danny Schechter

Concern in Israel about delegitimization

The entire process is a charade and both sides know it.

A commentary on some implications of the widely-proposed, and pervasive, state budget cuts.

Have the tenets of Naomi Klein's book, THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, affected Americans view of the world and how does her work fir in with our age and memories of America? This article begins to explore the shifting paradigms in America's social and political education. The article looks at the works of sociologist William Cecil Headrick and the writings of John Grisham as well.

Following Fox News' lead, conservative media outlets celebrated Labor Day by attacking labor unions, often smearing them as "socialist" and violent. Andrew Breitbart's website Breitbart.tv posted several anti-union videos depicting union members as "thugs" who engage in acts of violence or intimidation against those with which they disagree.

The check-mating of Democratic initiatives in Congress increasingly means that progressive causes must be served by private initiative to the greatest degree possible. The cause of labor is the most obvious case in point.

An Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem is destroyed. What does that signify about Israel? How is it related to hysteria over the Islamic Cultural Center in lower Manhattan?

The Morro Castle disaster was a case of an unavoidable disaster being mishandled by a new commanding officer.

This crisis began decades ago when a new wave of technology -- things like satellite communications, container ships, computers and eventually the Internet -- made it cheaper for American employers to use low-wage labor abroad or labor-replacing software here at home than to continue paying the typical worker a middle-class wage.

This is the story of how one small farmer, through no fault of his own, lost his dairy farm to a corrupt and uncaring system...a system that was set in place to help, not hurt, the small farmer.

Muslims have the constitutional right to build a mosque and community center near Ground Zero.

Here they are. The richest ten in Congress.

Faith, Hope and Clarity

Cheney wanted forcible "regime change" in all Middle Eastern countries that he considered hostile to US. Cheney thought the world had to be made anew, and that after 11 September, it had to be done by force and with urgency. So he was for hard, hard power. No ifs, no buts, no maybes." interests, according to Blair.

I think of all the munitions we used in Iraq. I am disgusted at our use of "depleted" uranium in our ordinance that poisons the air and ground and the water tables and has a half-life of over 400,000 years. Mothers and Fathers in Iraq don't ask if it's a boy or a girl.

As long as Obama presents no gripping narrative, like his campaign story, he will not be in charge of his own presidency, risking tragic results. The party with the strongest narrative wins. When the party in power presents no compelling storyline, no rousing calls to arms, no catchy soundbites, it faces the midterm now dooming the Democrats.