On December 16, 2007, on the two-hundred-and-thirty-fourth anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Ron Paul, congressman and Presidential candidate, presided over a nationwide fund-raiser. This was a new tea party, with a new slogan: “Liberty is brewing.” I

NEW YORK — New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under "shock and awe" bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, has died of an apparent asthma attack in Syria whi

Independence daze by digby Uh oh. It's little Tommy Friedman, 6 years old*, dreaming of a magical unicorn who will make mommy and daddy stop fighting: I still don’t know if I’d support an independent. Like others, I worry about electing the wrong person

Every now and then, something seemingly impossible happens: A Tunisian street vendor’s public suicide sparks a wave of revolutions against neocolonial autocracy, or a nation driven out of its collective mind by anything to do with race elects an African-

Although he praised Ross Perot's third party run in 1992, Friedman failed to mention how that helped elect "the wrong person" that year: EVENTUALLY the “circular firing squad” that is the Republican primary will be over and the last man standing will be

Colorado College president Jill Tiefenthaler manages the school's finances as well as teaching economics of higher education. RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post One by one, a dozen undergraduates tick off factors that might influence whether college alumni ope

Eventually the "circular firing squad" that is the Republican primary will be over and the last man standing will be the party's nominee for president. If that candidate is Rick Santorum, I think there is a good chance a third party will try to fill the

Walker -- who came in second to Hillary Rodham Clinton in a reader poll that Politico conducted in October for favorite third party candidate -- told me that he has no desire to run but that he's been speaking across the country, trying to do what Perot

Hicks said he administered CPR for 30 minutes but couldn't revive Shadid. Hicks carried Shadid's body to Turkey, the newspaper said. "Anthony was one of our generation's finest reporters," Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger said in a statement. "He was al

NEW YORK - New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize win-ner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under "shock and awe" bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, has died of an apparent asthma attack in Syria wh

Anthony Shadid takes notes outside Ayatollah Sistani's office in Najaf Dec. 3, 2003. NEW YORK >> New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid had been shot in the West Bank in 2002 and kidnapped for six days in Libya last year, but it was an apparent asth

Times photographer Tyler Hicks told the newspaper that Shadid had suffered one bout of asthma the first night, followed by a more severe attack a week later on the way out of the country. "I stood next to him and asked if he was OK, and then he collapsed

Jillian Rayfield February 17, 2012, 11:04 AM If [conservative political commentator Heather] Mac Donald’s statistics are accurate, 49 of every 50 muggings and murders in New York are the work of minorities. That might explain why black folks have trouble

Minister Najib Mikati wrote on his Twitter account: "Sincere condolences to journalist Anthony Shadid's (RIP) family, friends & New York Times colleagues. I've known and admired him personally. N.M." In this Dec. 3, 2003 photo provided by The Washington

On a recent political show Bay Buchanan made a comment that the host might be getting a call from her brother soon. There was something in the conversation that teased something was about to drop and yesterday it did. The modus operandi of these thought

Anthony Shadid won Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting in 2004 and 2010 when he was with the Washington Post. (Julia Ewan/Washington Post/Associated Press) 'Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping the

MSNBC has officially dropped longtime political analyst Pat Buchanan, four months after the network suspended him for the publication of his most recent book, "Suicide of a Superpower." In a post for The American Conservative, Buchanan credits his depart

My days as a political analyst at MSNBC have come to an end. After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangero

NEW YORK -- New York Times correspondent Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose dispatches captured untold stories from Baghdad under "shock and awe" bombing to Libya wracked by civil war, died Thursday of an apparent asthma attack in Syr