The GOP-encouraged, right wing media-inflamed, health care industry-funded mobs engaged in shouting down Democratic congressmen and Senators at town hall meetings presents us with a new low from a party I thought couldn’t sink any deeper. The goal, of course, is to defeat health care reform by drowning out the support with a wall of [...]

Americans love conspiracy theories, and none more than right wingers indulging their favorite fears about the left. The one in vogue currently among the loonies of the far starboard (quietly abetted by the GOP), of course, is that President Obama was not born in the United States. So successful have the birthers been in spinning [...]