If Liberalism Has Grown So Weak And

Philosophers And Theologians Have Argued For Centuries Over The Morality Of Targeted Assassinations - A Technique That The Israelis Use With Some Frequency - Without Ever Reaching Anything Approaching Consensus.

Liberals Do Not Appear To Address Potential Solutions With Anything Like The Far Right's Aura Of God-given Self-confidence.

There Are More People At Obama's Table Offering Ideas Than There Were Five Years Ago, But When It Came To Facing Up To The Republicans' Threat To Force A Double-dip Recession If They Didn't Get Their Millionaires' Tax Cut, They Still Amounted To Nothing. And Therein Lies Our Fundamental Problem.

The Ability Of The 1 Percent To Buy Politicians And Regulators Is Nothing New In American Politics - Just As Inequality Has Been A Permanent Part Of Our Economic System. This Is True Of Virtually All Political And Economic Systems.

Half The U.s. Population Owns Barely 2 Percent Of Its Wealth, Putting The United States Near Rwanda And Uganda And Below Such Nations As Pre-arab Spring Tunisia And Egypt When Measured By Degrees Of Income Inequality.