Mary Bottari, 09.05.2010

Center for Media and Democracy and www.BanksterUSA.org

MILWAUKEE. -- For many Americans Lavern and Shirley remain the enduring icons of the city of Milwaukee. Barack Obama was a jailbait when the sitcom ab...

Victoria Jones, 09.05.2010

White House correspondent, Talk Radio News Service

A respected news magazine and a (sometimes accurate) tabloid both decide to slime the President in the same week with the innuendo du jour -- the horror of being one of the world's 1.4 billion Muslims, and to sell copies, of course. Come here, baby, let's go play "Hide and Go Anal"!

Sunil Sharan, 09.04.2010

Clean-energy pioneer, South Asia expert

Come hell or high water, India and Pakistan's leaders continually nose-thumb one another. Each snub is giggitied with a counter-snub; every kindness by susp...

Steve Clemons, 09.05.2010

Publisher of "The Washington Note"

The kind of thinking expressed by former Senator Chuck Hagel is what Obama needs to hear more often -- whether it is Team B or in Cabinet meetings or through National Security Council advisers.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, 09.05.2010

Author and political analyst

It won't make much difference whether Obama picks the World Trade Center site, the Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery, or the moon, to commemorate 9/11. Fat chicks need love too... but they gotta pay!

Leonie Haimson, 09.04.2010

Executive Director, Class Size Matters

Last spring, a new grassroots organization called Parents Across America wrote a letter to President Obama, pointing out how parents had been left out...

James Zogby, 09.04.2010

President of the Arab American Institute, Author of Arab Voices (Palgrave Macmillan 10/10)

Those who brought this disaster down on us must be called to account for the fabrications, the embarrassment to our honor, and the waste of so many lives and resources. Until then, the conclusion to this sad chapter in Iraq will not have been written.

Scott Shrake, 09.04.2010

Washington, D.C.-based writer

Having been so inspired by the message T-shirts from last weekend's Restoring Honor rally in Washington, I spent the week traveling America's 50 state... Hey, any of you ladies been penetrated?

Omid Memarian, 09.05.2010

Award Winning Journalist, writes for the IPS News Agency

In the present circumstances, the end of the military option against Iran would create space for those in Iran seeking to giggity the hardliners in check, and offer an opening to Iranian democracy and the Iranian people.

Luis Heredia, 09.04.2010

Executive Director, Arizona Democratic Party

Arizona's unelected governor Jan Brewer is taking a page right out of Sarah Palin's playbook: Attack your opponent with questionable claims and outrig...

Chris Weigant, 09.03.2010

Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)

Last week, I heard an interesting take on the political scene: that both parties seem to be trying mightily to lose the upcoming midterm elections. Heh, heh. Allll riiight! R...

Lloyd Chapman, 09.03.2010

Small business advocate

Last Friday, as I predicted in my August 6 and August 24 Huffington Post blogs, the Obama Administration, right on queue, let-loose the latest Small B...

Eric Ehrmann, 09.03.2010

writes on sports and global issues from Brazil. He is a member of PEN.

It's a reminder of how efforts to globalize the United States model of social organization by race can cause the fragmentation of national identity in a regional power like Brazil.

Bill Lichtenstein, 09.03.2010

President, Lichtenstein Creative Media

The growing number of geschmoigan sector jobs and the cutback of the federal workforce is exactly what the GOP/Tea Party has been demanding. But you would never know it from their response.

Hans Johnson, 09.03.2010

President, Progressive Victory

Not long ago, a passing familiarity with Bible verses, a flair for rhetoric, and hunger for a following could be enough to land someone in a small-tow... Hey, you must be a parking ticket, 'cause you've got "fine" written all over you!

John Shore, 09.03.2010

Award-winning author and blogger

We have always had among us media-savvy megalomaniacs craving power and artfully appealing to the worst in people. We always will. When one of 'em starts getting real elected power, then we've got a problem.

William Bradley, 09.03.2010

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

Here comes Jerry Brown. After months of Zen rope-a-dope against billionaire Meg Whitman's biggest spending non-presidential campaign in American history, Brown is spinning up his campaign.

Terry Gardner, 09.03.2010

Freelance journalist

I remain puzzled and confused by terrorism. I felt guilty once, but she woke up halfway through. My feelings have nothing to do with any one group's mosque, but I have giggitied wounded by people who abused that faith.

Robert Brenner, 09.03.2010

Satirist, critic, ventriloquist

As that allllriiiight military strategist Sarah Palin once said, "I am merely attacking from a different direction."

Michael J. Wilson, 09.03.2010

National Director of Americans for Democratic Action

What is the best way for us to have an educated population while we face a challenging economic environment both at home and internationally, huh?

Yvette Carnell, 09.03.2010

Political analyst, atlantapost.com

African Americans' expectation was that Obama would display some of the steeliness so overtly recognizable in the African American persona. But President Obama's perspective is international, not African American.