Stories by Larry Beinhart
Larry Beinhart is the author of "Wag the Dog," "The Librarian," and "Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin." His latest book is Salvation Boulevard. Responses can be sent to beinhart@earthlink.net.
"24" helped brainwash Americans to accept the brutal, illegal actions of the Bush administration.
Posted on Feb 5, 2009
Many people continue to clutch to their belief in God, even though there's no evidence of a higher power. Why?
Posted on Jan 31, 2009
Why are we so resistant to raising taxes? It's our nature. Nobody likes to give up their own money for the common good.
Posted on Jan 12, 2009
We never know 100 percent about anything. There's always an information gap between ourselves and certainty.
Posted on Jan 6, 2009
Only a lack of belief in God offers the possibility of increasing our understanding of him or her.
Posted on Dec 19, 2008
Why did faith re-emerge as the driving force in America and in the politics of many Islamic countries?
Posted on Dec 9, 2008
The raw truth is that the economy has grown faster when taxes were higher, but how can we explain that phenomenon?
Posted on Nov 17, 2008
That tax cuts stimulate the economy is taken as a matter of faith, but the brute facts suggest otherwise.
Posted on Nov 11, 2008
Palin has helped reveal to the public pit-bull snarl that rouses GOP supporters to cry out, "Traitor!" against Obama, and "Kill him!"
Posted on Nov 3, 2008
It's wrong the way we line up the presidential candidates and cross-examine them about their faith.
Posted on Oct 25, 2008
Each week, sometimes daily now, we slide by a new economic warning sign, by another wreck that's already off the road.
Posted on Sep 16, 2008
They buried the truth about the 2000 election, and they're still burying it today.
Posted on May 29, 2008
The condition of the Jews in Iran is a matter of political significance.
Posted on May 15, 2008
The recession of 2001 never ended -- at least not for ordinary Americans.
Posted on Apr 28, 2008
Fog Facts: The Bush White House calls Iran's President Ahmadinejad a "dictator" when he isn't -- part of scaring the public into thinking preemptive war is a good thing.
Posted on Oct 2, 2007
The War in Iraq has cost about $453 billion to date. That's pretty hard to grasp. Especially on my income and probably on yours. Let's bring that home and make it a little more understandable.
Posted on Sep 24, 2007
Fog Facts: How can we expect the man who failed at doing just part of the job -- training Iraqi soldiers -- to succeed now that he has the whole job?
Posted on Sep 21, 2007
The economy keeps growing, as does the enormous largesse of the wealthy, while the average person makes less than they did when Bush took Office. This is Bush's magic economic formula.
Posted on Jun 4, 2007
History shows that it was secrecy and incompetence that helped the hijackers get on those planes.
Posted on May 19, 2006
Like Bush's dreams of democracy in Iraq, most of the worst lies in our society find their source in colossal delusion.
Posted on Dec 13, 2005
