It’s easy to forget what principle and conviction and honor look like, but this man reminds me. Mr. Eason, an employee of North Carolina’s Agriculture Department, refused to fly the flag at half mast after the death of avowed racist and bigot Jesse Helms.

The right wing hue and cry over the Supreme Court’s shocking decision that habeas corpus should apply to all human beings makes me despair. What the hell has happened to this country that we no longer believe in basic human rights for all people?

The recent controversy over the Reverend Wright has produced another round of the old, right wing cliche about loving this country or leaving it. You would think think that after all these years of using the same hackneyed catch phrase that these people would find something a little more creative than “my country right [...]