The Snark's Review

I would far rather hear Obama foreswear aggressive, pre-emptive, non-constitutionally-authorized war and to swear a commitment to restoring ...

During the GOP debate in Mesa, AZ, John King asked Representative Ron Paul why his new ads label former-senator Rick Santorum "a fake...

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So it turns out that a former analyst for the CIA's Bin Laden Unit,   Michael Scheuer , supports Ron Paul's suggested changes in U.S...

Google is a socially responsible company that celebrates events such as "Wildebeest Migration Day," "Medellin Flower Celebra...

Dick Cheney was on The View today, making the argument that the U.S. needs to stay in Afghanistan "until they can defend themselves....

Anyone who believes that some bureaucrat sent 2,000 weapons into an allied nation, knowingly into the hands of a criminal element that has...

Consider the following comment about President Obama from a recent  Der Standard  article , one of Austria's largest newspapers: Two-a...

The warmongers over at FoxNews are calling for yet another war, a cyber war. This one against WikiLeaks, for revealing America's "s...

The Jon Stewart video below tangentially brings up the issue of immigration and border protection. Isn't this something that we should...

For those who are still operating under the delusion that Barack Obama, or even the Democrat Party, is a friend to sexual minorities, please...

It is easy to write grand notes on the passing of great politicians and industrialists, less so on those who have simply made the lives of o...

Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff for President Obama, has issued a press release saying that the arrest of 10 Russian agents who spent years i...

The only person doing anything involuntary here is Oscar Grant, who is involuntarily dying. Amazingly, Oakland did not erupt in flames la...

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This is not a good thing, not even for the Obama administration. Half of America is gasping; the other half rolling on the floor laughing. A...

Obama isn't the first sitting U.S. president to win the Peace Price. The first was Teddy Roosevelt, in 1906. Roosevelt was not known as ...

Kate Winslet may have gotten the Oscar, but Meryl Streep got the Award. Wow.

Maybe if the son of the homophobic mega-church pastor had not had to spend his life hiding his sexuality from his father... Perhaps if his f...

Avigdor Lieberman  -- and he makes Saddam Hussein look to have been downright humanitarian.   He not only advocates total Apartheid, but...

A comment found below the McClatchy story on Cliff Cornell, the young Army "deserter" (read, "Iraq protester") who was r...

President Obama says his new team of economic advisors is diverse, not stacked with sycophant "yes" men (and women). So, surely we...

Today the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends Project released a new study investigating where Americans want to live....

The stimulus package is not going to be a walk in the park either. Republicans are yelling it's too costly and doesn't stimulate eno...

We didn't listen.

This has been reprinted in several places today, and for good reason. It is an an acerbic and appropriate observation. Thanks to Rob Wicks: ...

With one hand President Obama is standing in front of the television cameras waiving executive orders announcing "change," while w...

Barack Obama is not the first partially non-European American to achieve an executive office position in American government. That distincti...

In what will hopefully establish a precedent pace, President Obama acting quickly on Wednesday to begin the process of shutting down the Gua...

No. 35 · Arrogant Bastard Ale "I thought you had to be 21 to drink in Oregon, this kid turns 18 and first thing he is sucking down a Sa...

The Bush Administration accomplished a phenomenal piece of government investigating at a record pace. Never before in the annals of flight a...

John Brown was hanged by the State of Virginia on December 2, 1859, on the very day that Victor Hugo's letter was printed prophesying th...

It is of interest to note that none other than the great Victor Hugo publicly predicted that the State of Virginia's murder of John Brow...

Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life whi...

As we end another eight disastrous years of straight men running the world, with the most impressive thing to show for it being a little dev...

Today is the 15th, the day that the President Elect is traditionally supposed to have access to Blair House. So, do we yet know who was in B...

Writes Andrew Sullivan... What Equality Looks Like When I came to America from Britain, the gay rights movement was way ahead here of the ol...

Rather than attempt to rewrite an excellent piece, I'll merely point you to Andrew Sullivan's entry today on Gaza: http://andrewsull...

Yet another case of Israeli spying on the United States is in the news today. It was discovered back in the spring that for six years, from...