Robert Torricelli's self-serving, teary-eyed, 'I've-been-done-wrong' speech announcing the end of his reelection bid was enough to curdle even the sweetest milk of human kindness.
In this latest rewrite of history, Osama has suddenly lost his beard and grown a mustache, morphing into the Butcher of Baghdad -- or one of the look-alike stand-ins Saddam has been using for public appearances since 1998.
Somehow all the world's evildoers have been awarded honorary Iraqi citizenship by Mr. Bush and his saber-rattling support group of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, and Co.
Only a tone-deaf politician could fail to realize that there is much political hay to be made from the current bumper crop of corporate scandals. So, with control of the Senate at stake, candidates -- especially in tight races like Minnesota, Missouri and Texas -- are slipping into the mantle of the reformer and doing all they can to squeeze their way into the crowded populist tent.
The youthful indiscretions of the rich -- and of Bush family members -- are routinely treated with a slap on the wrist and a ticket to rehab while poor kids are shipped off to prison.
Reforms of IPO loopholes that allow the wealthiest one percent of America to control 47.7 percent of the market are needed now, not after the election or regime change in Iraq.
The president wants "No Child Left Behind." But his patchwork plan to transfer kids to better schools would not be better than a single-payer education system.
Young black men get singled out among drug offenders for the harshest punishment, then they lose their right to vote. With laws like this, who needs Jim Crow?
Like the Branch Davidians, the Brunch Bushians found comfort by withdrawing from a world that was confusing, complicated, and just a little too unfriendly of late.
We live with a corporate culture in which practices that are blatantly illegal for the man on the street are touted as breakthrough for the man in the boardroom.
Financial frauds that have endangered jobs, retirement funds and the stock market, the "profit uber alles" mindset is endangering the health and safety of the American people.
All of official Washington is high on corporate punishment. But if past is prologue, then very few of the robber barons will ever see the inside of a jail cell.
Every scandal produces at least one classic and defining euphemism -- a judiciously chosen word or phrase diligently employed to sugarcoat the sour reality at hand.
As 'Politically Incorrect' ends its remarkable run, the appropriate farewell is not a eulogy, but a celebration of the show's rare willingness to speak truth to power.
It's now painfully clear that there were terror warning signs aplenty but that they were disregarded by distracted FBI officials who had their eyes on a very different prize.
Though missed terror warning signals dominate the headlines, there is another story of warning signs being ignored by our elected officials: the sorry state of our economy.
In the world of CEOs, loans don't bear any similarity to the terms you and I would get if we went to our local bank and asked for a loan. For startes, they're approved by corporate boards. How can all this be legal?
Thanks to mega-millions spent on campaign contributions and lobbying, the pharmaceutical industry has skirted government oversight of patent-extending and price-gouging schemes.
