Month: April 2006

The difference between Democrats and Republicans has never seemed so stark. Yesterday John Kerry called for the removal of US troops from Iraq. By May 15th this year if Iraq can’t form a unity government; by the end of the...

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.  – Carl Sandburg

[Crossposted from DailyKos, ePluribus Media, and the TPM Cafe.]The recent diary “They Want to Hit Iran” by jorndorff on DailyKos reiterates and forewarns of the impending expansion of hostilities by the US against...

“[I]n times of crisis it’s interesting that people don’t turn to the novel or say, ‘We should all go out to a movie,’ or ‘Ballet would help us.’ It’s always poetry. What we want to...

[Crossposted from the Real History Blog.] 38 years ago today, Bobby Kennedy got off his campaign plane in Indiana to find, to his horror, that Martin Luther King had just been shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in...