Month: September 2007

If you haven’t ever read transcripts of Brendan’s phone calls to public officials, you are really missing out. Today’s isn’t funny. It won’t make you laugh like most of his phone calls. But it is...

This story is quite simply disgusting. And frightening. Because it sums up all that is wrong with our country in the Bush era. A minister and African American man, the Rev. Lennox Yearwood, head of the Hip Hop Caucus, was...

Front paging this because its too important to let it get sidetracked by the phony debate about the surge and Petraeus. Steven D   It’s been a couple of months since we last looked in on the status of S.185, and with...

John Boehner, Minority Leader in the House, says that we are paying a small price in Iraq. From TPM:     Democratic leaders are now opening fire on GOP House leader John Boehner, demanding that he apologize for saying...

He made a speech in which he flat out opposes any war with Iran. Take a listen: I disagree with some of his characterizations of the Iranian regime (he uses necon framing and rhetoric to make Iran seem far more of a threat to...