Month: April 2007

Monday Night Lounge The jukebox is in the corner – please no country music! May the 4’s be with you

When a leading public figure takes an unexpected position, it’s important to pay attention. Uri Avnery is the best known figure in Gush Shalom (the Peace Bloc), a dovish group just outside the mainstream of Israel’s...

This isn’t much of post, but when I popped over to My Left Wing in lurking mode, I saw that today was Tribute to Adam Day (Maryscott’s husband), which of course is very well deserved, but in the fine print I also saw...

This is going to be a treat! First time for me to see C-Span covering a Senate-House conference committee meeting. Starts about 4:30pm.

Not only has Senator Reid issued a smackdown of Bush’s veto threat by challenging him to come up with his own alternative to this latest failure of a strategy, but he has also apparently rounded up enough support to call for a...