Month: August 2008

Don’t get me wrong. I’m very pleased to learn that Rachel Maddow has been awarded her own one-hour evening program on MSNBC. But I’m somewhat put-off by all the enthusiasm people are displaying. It’s like...

From Color of Change, a disturbing and disheartening story about how our female troops are not being supported: LaVena Johnson was a 19 year old private in the Army, serving in Iraq, when she was raped, murdered, and her body...

Crossposted from MY LEFT WING Keith Olbermann is very good at soundbite polemic; the rise in popularity of Countdown has as least as much to do with his inarguably charming personality as with Olbermann’s ability to...

Update [2008-8-20 15:13:31 by BooMan]: New reporting is that Ms. Tubbs Jones is still alive but in very poor condition. I am really, really sorry to hear this news: U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, the first African-American...

Jonathan Weisman of the Washington Post screws over Obama in today’s column on the issue of abortion rights. How it reads: On paper, this campaign looks fairly standard. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, is staunchly in favor...