Month: July 2005

In my news-lacking world, I had an epiphany over the past few days.  I guess it is not an extraordinary revelation as I start to try to boil it down to the written word.  In fact, I know I’ve read it on dKos and...

If you are one of the 1250 registered users at My Left Wing, or if you’ve been meaning to become one, I could use a little input right about now. We’re attempting to create a My Left Wing Candidates List, in the...

[this is a revised diary cross-posted at dKos]Reuters is reporting:Tom Delay quietly slipped into the energy bill a $1.5 billion fund for oil and natural gas drilling research that will benefit an energy consortium based in his...

Here’s the political money question.   As a national party, how can the Democrats win upcoming elections and sweep the Republicans out of office?   This debate has raged here and elsewhere through countless...

The first I ever heard of Matt Taibbi was when he appeared on The Daily Show. (Watch the clip here.) He was promoting his new book, Spanking the Donkey, in which he tells of his experiences as an irreverent reporter on the 2004...