Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Dec 04,2009

Mel Brooks

I spent much of the last week crafting a profile about the one-and-only Mel Brooks, parodist extraordinaire. One of the things I came to appreciate is his absurd longevity: Working...

By AF Editors • Dec 03,2009

All Camped Out

“Glee,” Fox’s hot new musical comedy, is set in a small town in western Ohio, and that is the source of everyone’s woes. Viewers should, of course, know better than...

By Sonny Bunch • Dec 02,2009

Getting Behind Obama’s Afghanistan Policy

I missed the speech last night and spent most of today playing catch up (while not dealing with other pressing issues). As far as I can tell, the basics are...

By AF Editors • Dec 01,2009

Code Pink responds to Obama

As if you need me to say what I think about this. Almost the equal of MoveOn’s “General Betray-us”. Original image here.

By AF Editors • Dec 01,2009

Live-blogging the speech (Plus wrap-up)

Live-blogging below. Bottom line here: The President was crystal clear about why we are sending more troops to Afghanistan. We were attacked on 9/11. If the Taliban take back Afghanistan,...

By AF Editors • Dec 01,2009

Why bother listening to Obama’s speech?

The front page of the Washington Post has already announced that 34,000 new troops will deploy to Afghanistan. The front page of the NY Times says “about 30,000”. So tonight’s...