Month: July 2007

Consider this an Open Thread for Discussion of the Debates beginning on CSPAN2 right now. Harry Reid has offered his Opening Statements. I’m not sure how long I can Maintain this thread, but I’m sure they’ll be...

The ethnic cleansing of Baghdad is well advanced and the United States does not have the military force in place to alter the course of these events without engaging in a full scale war against the militias of Moqtada al Sadr...

Since the young among us have never really seen a sustained filibuster, I thought I’d help everyone know what to look for. The reason this filibuster is happening is not because there is any rule about filibusters, but...

I guess all of us who make the progressive blogosphere our bailiwick are geeks on some level or another. And tonight will be a kind of Super Bowl or World Series for political geeks. Actually, it’ll be like seeing the Cubs...

I’ve finally found the one true reason we are still in Iraq. We aren’t there for the weapons of mass destruction, because there aren’t any. We aren’t there to bring democracy to the Middle East because we...