Month: July 2007

. Senators Call For Appointment Of Special Counsel To Investigate Gonzales For Perjury MSNBC reports that four Senate Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have sent a letter [pdf] requesting that a special counsel be...

My grandfather fairly often used a saying in which he likened the struggle for equal rights among Negros in America to the behavior of crabs in a bucket. He used to say, “so as soon as one of them crabs has pushed himself...

One of the things I hadn’t taken into consideration upon launching the project to record anti-LGBT hate crimes on Wikipedia was that it would mean living with each of these stories as I research them and try to gather as...

Here’s another one from the “Irony is Dead” file.   On Wednesday, Jim Rutenberg and Alissa J. Rubin of the New York Times revealed that George W. Bush has taken beleaguered Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri...

Josh Marshall, of Talking Points Memo and TPM Muckraker is one of the big boys of the progressive/liberal blogosphere. And he’s done a lot of good work over the years exposing Republican corruption in Congress, the Bush...