Political thought control is alive and well in right-wing America
THOMAS FLEMING: Here in the Land of the Free, the Conservative beehive is all abuzz over the cancellation of Judge Andrew Napolitano's popular FOX television show.
View ArticleDreaming the Republican Dream: The choice comes down to Romney, or someone...
THOMAS FLEMING: Wednesday night's Republican debate was bad TV. Since a majority of Americans get their news primarily from television, this is very bad news for the GOP.
View ArticleChardon High School shooting in Cleveland, Ohio: An anthem for doomed youth
THOMAS FLEMING: School shootings are becoming as routine as, say, rape. And, they are part of a broader pattern of adolescent violence, no longer confined to the the disadvantaged.
View ArticleGoodbye, then, Senator Snowe - she will be missed by no one
Standing down: Rep Senator Olympia Snowe will not run for re election saying she is tired of the nasty political bickering that has turned Congress into a battle ground
View ArticleIllinois primary results 2012: Mitt Romney won in a landslide, what a relief!
TOM FLEMING: While on balance I have more sympathy with Romney's pragmatism than with his rivals' exercises in opportunistic conservatism, my sense of relief is more basic. At last they are all gone,...
View ArticleU.S. Election: A turbulent week for American politics shows how Obama's...
Out of touch: President Obama has run the country trillions of dollars into debt and seems to be constantly instigating new 'pet' projects to try and save his dwindling support
View ArticleThe Decline of the American Empire
THOMAS FLEMING: Record numbers of U.S. citizens are renouncing their American legal status - partly for tax reasons, but also because of their growing disaffection.
View ArticleAnders Behring Breivik trial: The insane rationality of Norway killer
Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik (R) looks on before the start of the fourth day of his terrorism and murder trial in Oslo April 19, 2012. Breivik said on Wednesday he should be executed or...
View ArticleObama's war on business
THOMAS FLEMING: What good can it possibly do to forbid US companies to pay bribes in Mexico? The only conceivable motive would be the hatred of American businessmen that drives the Obama administration
View ArticleObama gay marriage: A cynical cash grab that would lose Democrats votes
THOMAS FLEMING: The President never seems to be able to talk about anything, from sports to global warming, without making himself the center of the story.
View ArticleChild pornography moral debate: Freedom versus child protection
THOMAS FLEMING: Sensible people must reject the nonsense that pornography of every type is a victimless crime, so long as no harm was done in its production.
View ArticleIn the case of Shakil Afridi, none dare call it treason
THOMAS FLEMING: Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani physician who helped the CIA track down Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to 33 years by a tribal court in northwestern Pakistan.
View ArticleThe corruption and failure of the modern state
THOMAS FLEMING: Deutsche Bank CEO Juergen Fitschen has said the Greek economic system has failed because of political corruption.
View ArticleAs popular culture overflows with vampires and zombies, are we forgetting to...
THOMAS FLEMING: These days, anyone with a DVD player can feed their imagination all day on comic book evil. But is such stupefied fascination healthy? I think not.
View ArticleScotus v. The United States
THOMAS FLEMING: Yesterday (25 June) the Supreme Court ruled, in Arizona v. United States, that an American state does not have the constitutional authority to crack down on illegal immigrants.
View ArticleIn the U.S., lying about military service is now perfectly legal
THOMAS FLEMING: The quashing of the Stolen Valor Act means that in the U.S., politicians who tell self-serving lies about their military service are now protected by law.
View ArticleIndependence? Bah, humbug! The 4th of July is ripe for debunking
THOMAS FLEMING: The 4th of July is a day when sensible Americans impose a media blackout upon their households: no TV, no radio, no newspapers, no websites. It simply is not safe.
View ArticleThe interest in the Higgs boson particle has little to do with the real...
THOMAS FLEMING: It's not science that made front page news, it is the non-existence of the divine and the debunking of Christianity.
View ArticleMitt Romney: He may have made a few gaffes, but over all his world tour was...
THOMAS FLEMING: All in all, the Romney campaign came up with a pretty fair foreign strategy, and the candidate--though wooden and ham-handed as ever--came through pretty much unscathed.
View ArticleJulian Assange Extradition: Many a man needs killing and many a lie needs to...
THOMAS FLEMING: So far as I am concerned Julian Assange should be prosecuted for treason: he was not only disloyal to his country but he violated the rules of the game.
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