Month: April 2007

I was never able to be too enthusiastic about April Fool’s Day, probably due to my recently deceased mother. Having been unlucky enough to be born on April 1, she endured many cruel jokes in her childhood that she related...

For the less trafficked blogs, (and maybe even for the trafficked blogs) raising money is problematic.  I had a thought while over at Firedoglake looking at their survey.  What if a coalition of blogs got together and...

Convert or Die? No, that isn’t a quote from Ann Coulter’s latest jeremiad against the Muslim world or Liberals. It comes from a right wing blogger at Blogs for Bush by the name of Mark Noonan riffing off this post by...

The President does a radio address: THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. In recent days, the House and Senate each passed emergency war spending bills that undercut our troops in the field. Each of the Democrats’ bills would...

(Crossposted at My Left Wing.) With the Iraqi people in the process of kicking the U.S.’s ass, we on the left should nevertheless avoid thinking excessively ‘direly’ (if that’s the word) about the decline...