Month: June 2007

John Broder discusses how Congress seems incapable of tackling the big problems, like immigration, health care, global warming, and pension entitlements. It sometimes seems that it takes a catastrophe to create consensus. The...

Crossposted at Daily Kos and European Tribune I just wanted to let everyone in on a little news tidbit that could be taken as both hysterically funny and tragically frightening, depending on how you want to look at it. As I was...

What issue is most important to you? Perpetual War? Civil Rights? Healthcare? Poverty? Defending the Constitution? Global Warming? Fascism? Odds are that many of these issues rank quite high in your ideological heirarchy. I...

steven d, writing here at booman last week, expressed some sentiments that have been roiling in our minds as of late: half my spam these days comes from democratic politicians requesting my credit card number, or my check,...

I can think of several responses to this: The history of marginalized and oppressed people is so large and so over lapping that our only choices are to eventually learn to live together or to exterminate ourselves. A list of...