Month: January 2009

The fact that only three House Republicans (none of them women) voted for final passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 is just stunning. When the Senate passed the bill, every woman in the Senate voted for it. That...

I admit I have nothing to write about (nothing that’s very positive, anyway). But if you are a Rachel Maddow fan (like my daughter) go here and read the interview she just gave Leslie Stahl. It’s refreshing, to say...

You know that tradition that started with Reagan, where the outgoing president leaves a note for the incoming president, in his desk drawer? Well The Progressive has an exclusive of Bush’s note to Obama. Well, that’d...

You know that tradition that started with Reagan, where the outgoing president leaves a note for the incoming president, in his desk drawer? Well The Progressive has an exclusive of Bush’s note to Obama. Well, that’d...

There is an ongoing debate over the closing of America’s most notorious detainment/torture center at Guantanamo and the legality and efficacy of using torture to extract “information” from detainees in that and...