Stories by Will Durst
Will Durst is a political comic, syndicated columnist, AM radio talk show host and defense liability.
Labor day is a tribute not to fancy movie stars or stodgy founding fathers or rich and bloated athletes, but us.
Posted on Sep 7, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Democrats are fond of calling themselves the party of the big tent. Let's hope the tent doesn't end up housing a circus.
Posted on Jun 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet
McCain does his best to avoid being labeled "McBush" while dipping into the pockets of W.'s supporters.
Posted on Jun 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The day after Obama got trounced in West Virginia, he pulled off a major-league liberal endorsement.
Posted on May 17, 2008, Source: AlterNet
In politics, anything can happen. Except for what needs to happen for Clinton to secure the nomination.
Posted on May 10, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Thanks to Pennsylvania, the Democratic primary circus continues. Meanwhile, McCain is free to roam the country frightening children.
Posted on Apr 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Whatever happened to the Decider?
Posted on Apr 15, 2008, Source: AlterNet
In the Democratic Party everyone ends up feeling like a winner. Until the general election that is.
Posted on Apr 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Here's a handy guide for the media as they navigate the treacherous minefield of our historic 2008 election.
Posted on Mar 20, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A John McCain/Snoop Dog ticket? That I can get behind.
Posted on Mar 17, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Ralph Nader thinks that if America is to become better, it must first become worse. It's already worse!
Posted on Mar 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Clinton and Obama agree on almost every policy issue. That's not a debate -- it's a swimsuit competition with pants.
Posted on Feb 29, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The GOP is down to a man who believes humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together and another who can refute that -- since he was there.
Posted on Feb 25, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The most difficult fix for the Clinton campaign? Figuring out how to get the candidate's husband to shut the hell up.
Posted on Feb 14, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Maybe the celebrated day was intimidated trying to live up to its own hype, like the New England Patriots.
Posted on Feb 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Tomorrow is the biggest Super Tuesday yet. It's Super Duper Tuesday or Tsunami Tuesday or Giga Tuesday or The Tuesday of Destiny.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A list of the rules and what you need to play. Bottoms up!
Posted on Jan 28, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The most recent televised debate that preceded this weekend's South Carolina primary was more like a candidate slap fight.
Posted on Jan 24, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The GOP could roll into their National Convention with an entire starting basketball team of prospective candidates posing as Ronald Reagan.
Posted on Jan 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Clinton's victory revealed the teeniest kind of invisible fear, a form of prejudice known as "the Bradley Effect."
Posted on Jan 9, 2008, Source: AlterNet
What's the difference between Paris Hilton and Scooter Libby? Twenty-three days.
Posted on Dec 27, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The U.S. has turned into a discount playground for the world's trust fund babies.
Posted on Dec 3, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Whether or not Bush gives a country nukes boils down to this: its not enough for them to be like us, they also have to actually like us.
Posted on Nov 20, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Bush's veto of the State Children's Health Insurance Program wasn't "No child left behind" as much as it was "No child left standing."
Posted on Oct 17, 2007, Source: AlterNet
If Giuliani gets the nod from the GOP a whole group of the party's base it threatening to jump ship.
Posted on Oct 5, 2007, Source: AlterNet
It doesn't matter which holes free speech is coming out from. Everybody gets to say their piece.
Posted on Oct 1, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Will Durst answers some of the most frequently asked questions regarding General Petraeus' testimony to Congress last week.
Posted on Sep 17, 2007, Source: AlterNet
You'll never forget this brand new, never-before-seen footage featuring their patented wide stances and narrow minds.
Posted on Sep 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The 43rd President of the United States visibly choked up saying "so long" to the man he affectionately called "Turd Blossom," as his alter ego was pried away from him for the first time in 14 years.
Posted on Aug 24, 2007, Source: AlterNet
What's wrong with America is our national obsession with "me." Nobody ever thinks about "us" anymore. And the presidential primary process is the latest example.
Posted on Aug 14, 2007, Source: AlterNet
What happened to the center? It seems the only thing everyone talks about is the left or the right.
Posted on Aug 3, 2007, Source: AlterNet
If Bush had explained that he wiped away the VP's right hand man's sentence of 30 months for perjury in federal court, because you can't send a man named Scooter to prison, I would have understood. But the excuse used was the sentence was "excessive."
Posted on Jul 17, 2007, Source: AlterNet
I got your checks and balances right here. Well, right there, under Dick Cheney's foot, holding hands with individual liberties, writhing in their death throes.
Posted on Jul 6, 2007, Source: AlterNet
There may be no future in our Baghdadian misadventure, but there is an excess of liquid metaphors.
Posted on Jun 21, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Could it be that our love of punishing Paris really can be traced to our built up frustration with Dubyah? Are we kicking this poor poodle of a person as a Presidential proxy?
Posted on Jun 13, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Here's some advice for the people in charge that might come in handy the next time a couple of ocean going behemoths appear in waters in which you don't think they belong: leave them alone.
Posted on Jun 4, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Hillary Clinton just offered up the choice of her official presidential campaign song into the hands of the people. Here are a few ideas.
Posted on May 28, 2007, Source: AlterNet
When Hugo Chavez called President Bush the devil at the U.N., he was way out of line. Everybody knows Bush isn't the devil. Cheney is.
Posted on May 21, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The likes of George Bush I and II, George Tenet and Boy George might prove a death knell for the venerable name 'George.'
Posted on May 10, 2007, Source: AlterNet
Hershey recently petitioned the FDA to legally redefine the term "chocolate" to include artificial sweeteners, milk substitutes and trans fat -- something more like "mockolate."
Posted on May 3, 2007, Source: AlterNet
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