President Bush, whose scorn for journalists is balanced by a soft spot in his heart for the conglomerates they work for, threatens to veto the Senate action. Keep in mind that when the public was asked to submit comments to the FCC about consolidation, only one percent approved it. The President may not be listening, but the Senate is, and the public won this round. The House has a similar resolution under consideration.

I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.