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Salon: War Room
Five reasons not to get excited about the public option
The word went out Friday morning -- the public option was alive again! "The votes and the leadership are there in the Senate, and the public option will live or die based on Nancy Pelosi's next moves," said a statement from a coalition of progressive groups that's pushing to include...
Pat Caddell predicting ruin for Democrats -- again
Pat Caddell is what you might call a self-loathing Democrat. He was once -- back when 8-tracks and lava lamps were the rage -- a star in his party. But over time, he's burned bridges, gone a little crazy, and seen his campaign work dry up. Then, about ten years ago,...
Why Obama snubbed single-payer
A last-ditch push to get a public option into the healthcare reform bill appeared to stall Thursday, as the No. 2 Senate Democrat, Dick Durbin of Illinois, said he'd tell colleagues to vote against an amendment to graft the public plan in using the budget reconciliation process. Durbin was one of...
Glenn Beck misses Joe McCarthy
Glenn Beck's obsession with rooting out the evils of progressivism have led him to take up history lately. But it's a strange kind of history, an alternative one that bears little resemblance to what you might read in textbooks. (Since textbooks, after all, are all written by socialists.) On his...
Gawker's Scott Brown scoop falls flat
Gawker has a scoop of sorts about Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and it wants to know why no one else got there first. On the face of it, Gawker's Hamilton Nolan, the reporter, has a case, since what he dug up was an old defamation suit against Brown that involves...
House votes to probe leaders over Massa
So far, the scandal surrounding former Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., hasn't turned into a problem for other House Democrats, the way that former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., became a millstone around the neck of his fellow Republicans in 2006. But the GOP would like to change that. On Thursday afternoon, the...
FamousDC
Tickle fights and naked shower run-ins became part of the beltway lexicon, don’t be boring,scoop your poop, Chris Paulitz dropped his publicist Mark Pfeifle, Shamrock Fest is rocking RFK tomorrow, Marion Barry kicked it at Matt Labash’s book party, the free DC hedge-clipping service is still open for business, DC...
Massa and Rahm in a Capitol Hill Shower [Shamrock Fest]
Matthew Gagnon has won another FamousDC contest. His picture of Rahm and Massa in a legit Capitol Hill shower wins two VIP tickets to Shamrock Fest tomorrow at RFK. Congrats Mr. Gagnon!...
Twitter Contest [VIP Tickets to Shamrock Fest]
Even though SXSW is slowing down the contest, we still got a few solid entries. The polls (?) close at 4 pm today and we’re giving away two VIP tickets (free beer!) to Shamrock Fest at RFK tomorrow. … PREVIOUS: 48 Hour Twitter Contest [VIP Tickets to Shamrock Fest]...
If you are not a complete Brohemouth, do not read this ad. [Mt. Pleasant]
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Axelrod: Washington loves to watch people become too big and ultimately crash and burn
Peter Baker: Obama Social Secretary Ran Into Sharp Elbows...
Truthout - All Articles
Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek
Dick Cheney is a sadist. On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News' "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush White House ordered Justice Department attorneys to fix the law around the administration's...
Joe Conason | The New McCarthyism
The national madness known as "McCarthyism" began 60 years ago in Wheeling, W.V., when Joseph R. McCarthy held up a scrap of paper that supposedly listed the names of 57 State Department officials he said were actually Communists and traitors.read more...
To be a good teacher, must one be an erudite academic or a perceptive pedagogue? The debate is endless. Jean-Paul Brighelli brings a new element to the discussion: knowing how to teach is knowing how to seduce. In these days, when the master's degree and other requirements fall thick and fast...
"We Have 51 Senate Votes for Public Option" Adam Green to Ed Schultz (VIDEO)
Adam Green, of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told Ed Schultz yesterday that he counts 51 votes in the senate for the public option, and cites details on senators who have not yet signed the letter, but who have clearly publicly stated that they will vote FOR the public option...
Obama's Health Care Legacy Hangs on 216 House Votes
Washington - The looming vote for final passage of the historic health-care bill is the stiffest challenge House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has faced in his three-plus years as the lawmaker responsible for counting heads and ensuring passage of major legislation. The South Carolina Democrat has spent the past week in...
We're all tired of the suffocating parameters of "left versus right," of "blue America versus red America," of manufactured conflict - the evil twin of manufactured consent. We're tired of the haters, the snake oil salesmen, the hypocrites, the phonies. We're tired of toxic politics, of baseless accusations, of cowardly...
The Brody File
Congress Hears from Diverse Christian Leaders on Healthcare and Abortion
With the healthcare reform bill tangling by a thread, a couple dozen moderate and liberal Christian leaders have sent a letter to Congress and their message is pretty simple: the language on abortion will do just fine so just vote for the bill! Millions of conservative Evangelicals would beg to differ...
Eric Cantor to Brody File: Rahm Emanuel Should "Know Better"
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor tells The Brody File that Rahm Emanuel gave the President poor advice on the healthcare bill and should have “known better” The Brody File spoke to Cantor in his Capitol Hill office. Rep. Cantor will be a guest on this week’s edition of The Brody File that...
Eric Cantor to Brody File: Republicans Must "Seize the Opportunity" to Lead Again
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor tells The Brody File that Republicans have to now “seize the opportunity” to lead Congress after years where they didn’t have a “great record to brag about.” The Brody File spoke to Cantor in his Capitol Hill office. Rep. Cantor will be a guest on this week’s...
Eric Cantor to Brody File: “I think we can take back the majority.”
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor tells The Brody File that he thinks Republicans will win back the House of Representatives. The Brody File spoke to Cantor in his Capitol Hill office. Rep. Cantor will be a guest on this week’s edition of The Brody File that will air Monday March 15th on...
Eric Cantor to Brody File: White House Hypocrite Charge Against Him is "Preposterous"
In an interview with The Brody File House Minority Whip Eric Cantor blasts The White House and Democrats by trying to paint him as a hypocrite on the stimulus bill. The White House and the DNC say while Cantor opposed the stimulus bill he is supportive of the money inside...
Eric Cantor to Brody File: Time to Clean Up Earmark Process
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor tells The Brody File that it’s time to deal with controversial spending earmarks. The Brody File spoke to Cantor in his Capitol Hill office. Rep. Cantor will be a guest on this week’s edition of The Brody File that will air Monday March 15th on the...
The Nation: Editor's Cut
If you haven't seen our exchange about last week's cover story, "The Wrong Kind of Green," I encourage you to take a look. It features responses from many of the organizations profiled, and -- along with some great letters to the editor -- opens up some interesting lines for debate about the best approach...
Help Schools by Helping the Poor
'This excerpt is cross-posted from the WashingtonPost.com where Katrina vanden Heuvel writes a weekly column. For the full column, visit the WashingtonPost.com. ' Diane Ravitch's one-eighty on American education will surely catch the attention of those involved with the upcoming overhaul of the No Child Left Behind Act. Once an ardent supporter of...
If Only Financial Reform Really Were Funny
'This piece is cross-posted from the WashingtonPost.com, where Katrina vanden Heuvel writes a weekly column.' In a hilarious video plug for the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency, the popular comedy Web site funnyordie.com gathers Saturday Night Live's famed presidential impersonators -- from Chevy Chase to Will Farrell -- to advise a slumbering Barack Obama (Fred...
The Rightwing Witch Hunt Against ACORN
After 18 months of screaming headlines and attacks vilifying the anti-poverty group ACORN--attacks reminiscent of a New McCarthyism that threatened the group's very existence--it's clear now that this was a right-wing witch-hunt which, sadly, too many Democrats and the mainstream media failed to fact-check. In December, the Congressional Research Service cleared ACORN of allegations of improper...
'The Nation'has moved quickly to embrace emerging platforms like Twitter and Facebook. On Twitter, the magazine has over 26,000 followers, and we see it as a way to engage with our readers and reach new audiences. We were thrilled, then, to win our first ever "Shorty Award" on Wednesday, in the "politics" category. The...
On Religion and Reconciliation
Secularism of the Senate notwithstanding, "reconciliation" is at root a religious concept, an article of faith central to Christian theology. This perhaps explains why, at this point in the health care brouhaha, cantankerous Republicans have chosen to perch their high horse at such a precarious altitude. As one of the Seven Sacraments,...
The New Republic - Jonathan Chait Feed
Mary Katherine Ham at The Weekly Standard features this quote from Nancy Pelosi touting health care reform: "Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance." and launches an extended riff about...
Yup, It Sure Looks Like They're Going Around Stupak
And, from his tone, it sounds like they'll get the votes. From an interview with National Review: Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy...
This is the kind of thing the Democrats need more of right now: In what seems intended as a shot across the bow of House Dems wavering on health reform, top officials with the labor powerhouse SEIU have bluntly told a Democratic member that they will pull their support for him...
One of the things that distinguishes libertarians from regular conservatives is that libertarians really like to think of themselves as scrappy underdogs, and are far less comfortable with the idea that they're aligned with powerful economic interests. So, for instance, libertarians have an unusually strong emotional investment in the idea...
I think the "liberals say X," conservatives say Y," I'm the rational man in the middle" trope is overused by pundits and politicians. But in this case, I think David Brooks gets it right today: If you ask a conservative Republican, you are likely to hear that Obama is a skilled...
The debate over the use of budget reconciliation to pass relatively small changes to a health care reform is an unusual one. Republicans keep charging that it's unprecedented. Experts on Congressional procedure keep debunking them. Here's an NPR story quoting Georgetown's Sara Rosenbaum explaining that reconciliation has been used repeatedly...
Eunomia
Happy Anniversary, Front Porch Republic!
Even though I haven’t had much to contribute to their fine efforts in quite a while, I wanted to offer a rather belated wish of congratulations to the people at Front Porch Republic on the occasion of their one-year anniversary. One thing that becomes very clear after more than...
There are many things one might say about the Vice President’s speech at Tel Aviv University, but one of his remarks jumped out at me as being so obviously false that I have to wonder why he said it. Biden said: Looming over all our efforts in this region is...
Count me as a skeptic whenever administration allies begin claiming that the White House is guided by ideas derived from Catholic social thought, or indeed from any form of theological reflection. Via Kevin Sullivan and Laura Rozen comes this report from Religion News Service: McDonough helped craft Obama’s landmark address...
Greg Scoblete and Andrew address why Palestinians receive so much more attention when there are people in other parts of the world who suffer far more. As far as American attention is concerned, I think they are right that U.S. financial and diplomatic support and especially military aid account...
As usual, Nikolas Gvosdev has written an excellent analysis of the foreign and economic policy divergences between emerging-market democracies and the leading European and North American democracies. (Via Kevin Sullivan) Gvosdev makes many of the points I have been making on Iran policy, democratization, and the increasing anti-hegemonic...
America is freedom, and freedom must be strong. ~Mitt Romney I read this bit of nonsense last week, and it came back to me when I looked at Matt Continetti’s post on the Tea Party movement. What reminded me of Romney’s drivel was this passage (via Ross): The lesson I draw...
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right
Some Cautious Optimism on Health Care Whip Count
I'm not going to try to produce any detailed health care whip count of my own -- but I do think you can make a case that the Democrats have a reasonable-looking path to 216 votes.To briefly recap the math: 220 Representatives voted for health care in November, and 215...
New Feature: UK Election Backgrounders
News from the UK election campaign remains personality driven, with little new thinking as to what either of the big parties may actually do to turn around the British economy (other than some phantom level of expenditures cutting where Labour cuts = X and Tory cuts = X +2).Gordon Brown...
UK Swing Voters Endanger Tory Lead
With UK general elections likely to come in May, the Conservatives' formerly commanding lead in nationwide polls continues to be slowly evaporating. Though the Prime Minister's approval ratings are still dismal ,David Cameron is simply having a devil of a time selling his "New Conservatives" as a palatable alternative....
Stats Say Kucinich may be Least Valuable Democrat
In December, I posted ratings for each Democratic Representative based on how they voted on 10 key agenda items in 2009. The idea was to see how each Democrat voted relative to the partisan slant of his district; a Democrat voting for the cap-and-trade bill in a Republican-leaning district...
Lame Excuses on Public Option, but no "Scam"
I covered a lot of this ground in a post a couple of weeks ago, but it's worth going over again as some of the usual suspects are alleging that the Democratic caucus has "scammed" their constituents out of a public option.1. No, it isn't clear that the Democrats ever...
In Maryland, where I teach, people often tout their state as "America in miniature" because topographically it features everything from mountains to the Chesapeake Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. If the whispers I'm hearing about former Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich making a run to recapture the statehouse turn out to...
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Politics (Un)Seriously
Put Your Money Where... Where?
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki uses uses “It’s a Wonderful Life” to inspire Americans to pull their money out of large banks. Stephen Colbert uses the same film classic to bolster his opposing argurment. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs......
In the aftermath of the attempted terror attack on Christmas Day aboard a U.S.-bound plane, everyone is talking about a failure to "connect the dots." Stephen Colbert shows how easy it is with the right placemat... The Colbert Report......
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has praise for the military and appreciation for Americans who support the troops, regardless of politics. Jon Stewart wants to know if it's time to get some stuff out of......
Of Tea Parties, Purity and 'Red Zingers'
Blogger-on-the-right Erick Erickson of RedState.com tells Stephen Colbert what's wrong with the Republican National Committee's "purity test," since "checking the box" is more about money than ideology. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Erick Erickson www.colbertnation.com Colbert......
Yes, it was quite a decade and yes, there are some important mid-term elections coming up this year. But leave it to "Saturday Night Live" to mash up an ominous-looking movie trailer with an ominous political prediction... ......
Yeah, It Really Was Kind of Weird
It wasn't just on the political front -- which did have its own off-the-wall moments... JibJab's take on 2009. Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!......
The Bilerico Project
Weekly Reader: Salty Seaman, Drag Queens, and Nancy Pelosi's not helping
With Bil on a grand adventure to SXSW in Austin, he asked me to try to fill in. It's been a fascinating couple of days being Bil Browning. I've tried my best to give the readers what they want, like plenty of eye candy. Fortunately for everyone there are lots...
High School Administration's Homophobia Causes Lawyer
Editors' Note: Guest blogger Chris Worden is a family-law attorney and political commentator. Chris has managed two successful statewide races in Indiana, including the campaign to elect Pam Carter, the nation's first African-American woman attorney general. As if homophobia weren't its own evil! This story chronicles how my...
The Butterfly Circus (review and video)
"One of the best short films I've ever seen." The other day, that's how an artist friend of mine described The Butterfly Circus when he emailed me the link to it. I hopped over to YouTube to view this 20-minute film, and instantly agreed. Written/produced/directed by Joshua...
Transgender Celebrity: Good, Bad or Ugly?
This post began in response to a comment I received from an acquaintance in the Netherlands. Angela referenced a recent blog of mine about transsexual woman Susan Stanton, exploring her sudden rise to the national media's center stage in 2007. Saturday evening CNN premiers the biographical documentary "Her Name...
Duchess, the Policy Puppy, Says No
Why is Duchess the Policy Puppy so sad? Because it's the weekend, and yet she has to work her paws to the bone to get the message out about her friend ENDA. Seems that the dastardly Speaker of the House, Cruella de Ville, she won't let ENDA out...
Banana Hammocks Now Made From Bananas
The Australian underwear company hailed for making the "wonderbra" for men have unveiled a new line of underwear created from banana plant textiles. Ecouterre reports: A world's first, the made-in-Australia men's unmentionables comprise 27 percent banana fiber (made from the bark weave of the plant), 64 percent organic cotton, and 9...
The World Newser
How Will Britain's Upcoming Election Affect U.S. Relations?
ABC's Jean-Nicholas Fievet reports from London: What kind of partner will Great Britain be for the United States if there’s a change of government in London this spring? “Solid but not slavish” according to William Hague, the man who could......
$657M Settlement Reached With Ground Zero Workers
ABC's Aaron Katersky reports: An insurance company handling the claims for the City of New York, and Ground Zero workers all hailed an agreement reached Thursday on health care costs. “We believe that the compensation to each of the clients......
Tribune CEO Bans Cliches From Air Waves
ABC's Stu Schutzman reports from New York: In a surprise move, at this point in time, Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels, informed sources say, issued a directive this week to his flagship radio station, WGN-AM, banning some 119 words and......
The Morning Meeting: Health Care, Tornadoes, Earthquakes and More...
On the docket today…we’ve used the word “endgame” too many times, probably, when it comes to health care reform. “Final push,” too – which is a familiar White House phrase. But now the President and Democratic Party leaders say that’s......
CIA Drone Attack Rocks Northern Waziristan
ABC's Nick Schirfrin reports: For the second time in three days, CIA drones attacked a target in North Waziristan -- today firing a torrent of at least six missiles on a building and cars full of people trying to escape......
Quotes of the Day: 'America... I Think I've Wasted Your Time'
"We saved the economy, but we kind of lost the public doing it." Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, to The New Yorker “The situation on the ground remains dire. And people should be under no illusions that the crisis is over.”......
Open Left - Front Page
The myth that conservative welfare reform worked--Part 6
Where We've Been: This is Part Six--the final part--in my diary series, "The Myth That Conservative Welfare Reform Worked". Part 1 began this project by debunking the conservative narrative that liberals and Democrats were uninterested in reforming welfare, drawing principally on Diana Zuckerman's artlce, "Welfare Reform in America: A Clash...
America's Moment of Truth: A call to save U.S. schools from a timetable for their demolition
Diane Ravitch has seen the end of the U.S. system of public schools. And it's likely to happen in 2014. In her new book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, Ravitch provides the narrative arc for how the demise of...
The REAL "Climategate" scandal--the corporate buyout of the environmental establishment
Johann Hari, a columnist for the London Independent, was on Democracy Now! this week, to discuss his new article at The Nation, focusing on why leading US environmental groups are lobbying against the kind of dramatic policy changes that the science itself says are needed to save the planet from...
Ponzi notions: What's Ponzi and what's not
The latest TomDispatch essay, Ponzi Nation: How Get-Rich-Quick Crime Came to Define an Era By Andy Krollmakes an a good argument: Every great American boom and bust makes and breaks its share of crooks. The past decade -- call it the Ponzi Era -- has been no different, except for...
Beck vs. Jesus & his churches (somebody's going to H-E-L-L !!!)
Beck: I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church web site," Beck urged his audience. "If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words. Now, am I advising people to leave their church? Yes!"...
Michelle Alexander on "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness was on Democracy Now! this week for a two-part interview (Part 1, Part 2). And she wrote an essay for TomDispatch, introduced as "The Age of Obama as a Racial Nightmare". It began thus: Ever since...
Pacific Views
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy (h/t The Big Picture)...
Waterboarding: Yes, it really is torture
Waterboarding Too Dangerous, Internal DoD Memo Reveals, by Jeffrey Kaye Jeffrey has a very important piece this week in Truthout which shows that the use of waterboarding is dangerous to military personnel subjected to it. Indeed, the excuse that since waterboarding is used on American soldiers means it can't be...
... by Walter Brasch Up to two feet of snow hit the Mid-Atlantic and New England states last week, the second storm within two weeks. Wind gusts of up to 50 miles an hour and temperatures in the 20s created severe wind chill and extreme hazardous driving conditions. Pennsylvania ordered all...
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Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Any Worse: Sleeper Traitor Cells In The Government!
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Thanks to the intrepid Rachel, we finally know the full story of this terrible conspiracy....
One of the greatest failings of today's Conservatives (and many Democrats who have bought into the market is always right philosophy) is the inability to look at the actual facts and reconsider your beliefs. Yet, one Conservative critic of the Public Schools has shown that the real world data is...
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GOP CALLS FOR PROBE OF WHITE HOUSE JOB OFFER...
GOP rep. says Sestak's claims of [Discuss] [Link]...
Biden scolds Israel over settlement plan...
Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel on Wednesday over a Jewish settlement plan, saying it was undermining peace efforts after Palestinians agreed to U.S.-mediated talks. [Discuss] [Link]...
[Headline] - CHIEF EXORCIST: 'DEVIL AT WORK IN VATICAN'
No summary available. [Discuss] [Link]...
MOB TACTICS USED TO PUSH HEALTHCARE THROUGH...
President Obama's attempts to ram health- care reform through an increasingly reluctant Congress are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of "The Sopranos." [Discuss] [Link]...
CHINA: Cause of global warming not clear...
Source: Reuters * Cause of global warming not clear, top negotiator says * World should act to cut carbon emissions anyway * U.S. must not shirk its responsibilities By Emma Graham-Harrison BEIJING, March 10 ... [Discuss] [Link]...
TOYOTA DEALERS to push back against 'predatory' GM, use of tax dollarsto steal customers...
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FP Passport
I've been trying hard to find smart criticism of the Obama administration's decision to rebuke Israel for embarrassing U.S. Vice President Joe Biden last week by announcing the construction of 1,600 new housing units in Ramat Shlomo, an area of East Jerusalem that lies outside the Green Line that demarcates...
Friday Photo: Genghis Putin goes for a ride
Couldn't resist these: A picture released on March 6, 2010 shows Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stroking a horse in the Karatash area, near the town of Abakan, during his working trip to Khakassia, on February 25, 2010. At least he's wearing a shirt this time. ...
A bargaining chip, Cyprus style
In December 2009, just one year after his death, the corpse of former Cypriot president, Tassos Papadopoulos, was dug up from under a slab of marble and stolen from its grave. For three months now, authorities have been searching in vain and coming up with politically-charged theories of "whodunit" -- to no avail. Then, earlier...
Today Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh met in New Delhi to sign a number of bi-lateral commercial agreements. While the agreements cover a wide variety of topics, including space exploration, fertilizer importation, and commodities trade, nuclear energy and defense are what have received the most attention. Edging out...
The EU, Germany will bail out Greece
It's official, The Guardian reports: Senior sources in Brussels said that Berlin had bowed to the bailout agreement despite huge resistance in Germany and that the finance ministers of the "eurozone" – the 16 member states including Greece who use the euro – are to finalise the rescue package on Monday. The...
Western Europe criticized in State Department's annual human rights report
The State Department's 2010 Human Rights Report examines abuse and discrimination the world over, featuring China, Iran, and... Western Europe? Europe is not exactly at the forefront of one's mind when thinking of places with poor human rights records. But creeping into European society are widespread and insidious anti-Muslim sentiments,...
Bill Moyers Journal
Do Americans Suffer From an "Allergy to Thought?"
(Photo by Robin Holland) This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers talked with New York University president John Sexton for a wide-ranging conversation about religion, the role of higher education in a globalizing world, and the troubling disintegration of civil......
Bill Moyers concluded the JOURNAL this week by mentioning his favorite poem, "Yes To Blue" by Jim Haba long-time director of the Dodge Poetry Festival. It's reproduced below: "Yes to blue after trying to separate green from yellow and hoping......
Bill Moyers & Michael Winship - Ask the Chamber of Commerce: Why Is Too Much Not Enough?
Living in these United States, there comes a point at which you throw your hands up in exasperation and despair and ask a fundamental question or two: how much excess profit does corporate America really need? How much bigger do......
Is the President's Health Bill Worth Supporting?
(Photos by Robin Holland) In January, when Republican Scott Brown won the special election for the Massachusetts Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy, Democrats lost their filibuster-proof majority and the fate of their health reform legislation plunged into uncertainty.......
Michael Winship - Campaign 2010: Déjà Vu All Over Again
(Photo by Robin Holland) Below is an article by JOURNAL senior writer Michael Winship. We welcome your comments below. "Campaign 2010: Déjà Vu All Over Again" By Michael Winship Comparisons are odious, the old saying goes, and certainly Democrats are......
(Photos by Robin Holland) This week on the JOURNAL, Bill Moyers spoke with prominent lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies about their legal challenge to California’s ban on same-sex marriages. Olson, a conservative, and Boies, a liberal, are best known......
Right Side of the Rainbow
Oh goodie: Obama's policies would add almost $10 trillion in new debt over the next decade
So says the Congressional Budget Office.......
The news for Democrats gets worse. Even if Congress lifts the ban on openly gay troops, what to do about the military’s prohibition on sodomy and oral sex? Wide stance: A “family values” Republican, California state senator Roy Ashburn,......
Study says gay troops don't cause disruption in foreign militaries
By foreign, do the authors mean European?* If so, the experience of the Europeans isn’t persuasive. Unlike most foreign militaries, our military has actual responsibilities. I’m sympathetic to the view that “don’t ask, don’t tell” should be repealed. But I......
First Massachusetts, now Illinois?
According to the New York Times, Democrats now worry that the Senate seat formerly held by Barack Obama “might be picked off by Republicans in November.”......
Is a terror attack on the U.S. imminent?
New York Times: “America’s top intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday that Al Qaeda and its affiliates had made it a high priority to attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months.”......
The health care debate is over, and Democrats know it
They’ll still yammer about passing a bill, but not to worry. The Democrats are merely keeping up appearances for the benefit of their base. It’s over.......