Month: June 2005

Durbin is my senator, and of late I’ve been proud as hell to have voted for him. This is a version of a comment (and later, a diary) I posted over at DKos about Durbin’s Guantanamo statement. I don’t usually...

Blair surely can’t still believe in the ‘special relationship’ after this: leaked documents that form part of the US submission to the G8 action plan demonstrate that Bush is cynically and deliberately...

Newsie’s Week in Reviewsies: DSM Has Some Legs, but the Right Wing Spin on Schiavo Doesn’t This regular meta-diary focuses on the best overlooked diaries (didn’t get front-paged or on to the recommended list)...

The “center-right” of the party has, over the last several years, presented the Democratic Party and voters on the left with a stark either/or choice: either the party move in “their” direction on...

When I wrote my first real diary last week, I realized that I spent a lot of time searching for information and sourcing it.  Even though I had previously read that very information on the blogs I frequent, the lack of...