Everyone has heard that the gap between rich and poor is rapidly growing in this country. Alan Greenspan of all people has said that the very nature of democratic society is threatened by the phenomenon. So what would the wealthy, those winners in the inequality sweepstakes, do to combat the potential backlash from the vast majority of Americans who are the losers in this sweepstakes? Rationalize, of course; rationalize, rationalize, defend, defend and deny.

The new owners of Air America Radio have demoted host Sam Seder to a Sunday timeslot, replacing his weekday morning show with an existing program from another syndicated network.

Once a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq, the U.K.'s The Economist magazine has really changed its mind.

Corporate profits. If you live in a capitalist society, there are few subjects closer to financial godliness. But now, even in the midst of the most pro-corporte business environment since the 19th century, the news on corporate profits is getting shaky.

When I'm wrong, I'm big enough to admit it. I received quite a few emails from listeners of American Indian descent regarding some comments I made recently. Those comments were intended to spark a discussion on how we view past transgressions against American Indians as compared to those against Blacks in America. I intended to challenge policies, and not to demean or insult any group of people.

While Wednesday's recess appointment of Swift Boat contributor and GOP fund-raiser Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium gathered most of the media attention, another recess appointment President Bush made yesterday may be even worse.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's web site has the text of a letter from Rep. Henry Waxman to RNC Chairman Mike Duncan, requesting emails stored on Republican National Committee servers related to the use of federal resources for political purposes.

I wrote about Lurita Doan's tenure at the GSA a few days ago, but didn't really go into much depth on the claim that she presided over a meeting of GSA employees, on fed property, at which a Rove aide spent considerable time doing a slide show on the upcoming 2008 elections for the House, Senate, and Governorships. But that issue, and it's Hatch Act implications, is heating up.

The president addressed the military at Fort Irwin in California a few hours ago, and was his usual eloquent self. My heart goes out to the soldiers who had to sit through this. If you really understand these excerpts, please translate for me.

For obvious reasons, American news coverage of Iraq tends to focus on the deaths and injuries. That does give short shrift to less immediately sensational news, but contrary to the right wing spin, much of that is dismal as well.

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