NYT: Obama to Request Research Funding for Treatments Tailored to Patients’ DNA
... FBI defends new national compulsory DNA registry, as 'for a good cause.'
Views of Our Pothole Democracy
People like me learned about the existence of former U.S. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) in 2007, when Jon Stewart told the story of the...
NYT: Was Abolitionism a Failure? The movement didn’t end slavery; the Civil War did
....War what's it good for? Everything!
Schwarzenegger: Total Freefall?
In the 1993 action movie, Demolition Man, Bruce Willis’s character is thawed (after being cryogenically frozen in 1996) in the year 2023 in future...
TPV Disagrees with Joe Nocera
NYTimes' Joe Nocera would call our readers “boneheaded" - TPV disagrees. To submit comments on the Keystone pipeline to the U.S. State Department please visit...
ISIS Militants
capture Jordanian fighter pilot in Syria. Stoic pilot refuses to talk except "don't call me Roger."
Chag Sameach! from the White House and TPV
As TPV was busy cleaning up its cupboards of bread crumbs, we were very pleased to receive the email below from our friend, the...
The Almaviva Republican Party
For some, the Republican Party is the Party of Lincoln. I am mentioning this because back in the time of Lincoln, the Southern Democrats...
NY for True Democrats: Teachout-Wu
Dear Readers:
Never has $1 meant so much as today! Contribute to Teachout-Wu to send a message to Albany that sellouts need to move out of...
Why Run for President When You Cannot Rise Above a Lackey?
I thought the president knew that poeple like me- many much younger and better looking- elected him. Alas, he feels indentured not to us...
The Scariest Thing about Romney Is Sheldon Adelson
I discovered late in my life that being Jewish is beautiful. Until then I thought that it was just my reflection in the mirror...
















