Month: July 2008

Since the right-wing and even some of the mainstream media, and the DLC, continue to paint the Blogosphere and Netroots Nation as some kind of far-left vaguely communist anti-American collection of tired old hippies, I’ve...

I’m a fan of finding weaknesses early in the vetting process. I’m gonna update this diary regularly as more candidates are in serious contention and I have more snark to retch. Gov. Richardson – comes off like...

I suppose one would have to be a dedicated hermit not to know that Barack Obama is making a tour of the war zones this week. The networks sent all three anchors, the troops are cheering for him (Except of course for the...

A piece in the Sunday New York Times reports that conservative think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation are engaged in hot internal discussions about self-transformation.  With support...

I met and talked with many aspiring Democratic politicians in Austin. None of them were as impressive as Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich who is running for Ted ‘Hulk Tie’ Stevens’ senate seat. When I get the...