Month: October 2007

The wildfires are really out of control.

Russ Feingold, commenting on the Senate floor today…the fifth anniversary of Congress’s passage of the Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq. “I will not stand idly by while this mistaken war continues. I will...

Law professors, masters of argument and influence, are of course assholes (i.e., servants of corporate power and/or practicers of deliberate diversion from confronting corporate power). But the art of their particular...

If you were concerned that the Connecticut for Lieberman Party was going to double in size, fear not. Bob Kerrey has announced that he will not be running for senator from Nebraska. He sent out a press release: I have decided I...

    I recently came across some statistics that seemed unbelievable to me in America. It appears that in 10 of our largest cities the public school systems are graduating less than half of their students. That is...