Issues & Alibis ... The Forum

A forum for the discussion of liberal political ideas.

"Lie isn't an adequate word for what Republicans say. We need a new term; I propose anti-truth, as in, "There are lies, damned lies, and Republican anti-truths." Like matter and anti-matter, Republicans and the truth just can't occupy the same space. What they say goes all the way through and past "untrue" into the realm of turning reality inside out, tying a knot in it, and yanking hard." ... M.E. Cowan

"If Bush told a lie in the forest and there was no one there to hear it would it still be a lie?" ... Uncle Ernie