Thom Hartmann

Coaching, both for children, teenagers, and adults, offers a number of advantages. Consider these:

What is the Radical Middle?The Founders of this nation represented the first Radical Middle. Back then they called it "being liberal."

A Declaration of Rights for the 21st CenturyClick here to hear this read by Kindra Scanlon

The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) called on media to stopinviting Ann Coulter as a guest commentator and strongly condemned hercomments that Jews should be “perfected” by accepting the New Testamentand that America would be better off if Judaism were “thrown away” andall Americans were Christian.

If you fly over the country of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, the island on which Columbus landed, it looks like somebody took a blowtorch and burned away anything green.

Columbia University, by inviting Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejadto speak, has shown confidence in the wisdom and adultness of theirstudents and our republic.

The eerie juxtaposition of General Betrayus testifying today beforeCongress, and it being 9/11 (which helped Bush bring us disastersranging from the PATRIOT Act to the Iraq War and Occupation) brings anopportunity to re-understand what’s been happening here and in Iraqthese past six years, and offers an insight into a way forward.

Our bridges are falling apart (among other things), and its RonaldReagan’s fault. A few hours before the bridge collapsed in Minnesota, anews release landed (among hundreds) in my email inbox. It was from theright-wing “Heartland Institute” and a Minnesota conservative groupcalling itself the “Taxpayers League of Minnesota.” I

The President of the United States has the unrestrained Power ofgranting Pardons for Treason; which may be sometimes exercised toscreen from punishment those whom he had secretly instigated to committhe Crime, & thereby prevent a Discovery of his own Guilt.

It’s difficult to watch Democrats play checkers while Republicans playChess with Iraq. It’s particularly difficult on Memorial Day as moreAmericans and Iraqis die. But the Republican Party has been playingpolitics with Iraq since the day after the Supreme Court installedGeorge W. Bush in office in 2001, and they have no intention ofstopping now. They may have borrowed some techniques from RichardNixon, but they have no intention of repeating his mistakes.