Heard the expression "holy cow"?

Robert Scheer on Hiroshima
"Truthdig Classic: The Terror America Wrought" -- This week marks the anniversary of a U.S. attack that deliberately took the lives of thousands of children on their way to school.

The Birthers

Eugene Robinson on the Birthers"The Nut Job as Political Force" -- If there’s been a more clinically insane political phenomenon in my lifetime than the “birthers,” I’ve missed it. Is this what our national discourse has come to? Sheer paranoid fantasy?