Month: January 2009

Poster from the British Distaster Emergency Coalition (DEC). It would appear that there is a conflict brewing over Gaza, in Britain, concerning efforts to publish the most basic of humanitarian calls for help: charity appeals...

Snapshots from the United States of Incarceration…So, the Pope of Hope announced his (purported) objective of closing the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (“Gitmo”) within one year and...

Unless I’m killing time in a piano bar, I’m no fan of Billy Joel. But the worst pop singer ever? I don’t see it. Lenny Kravitz is pretty awful. Michael Bolton? Is he pop? The Backstreet Boys? Boy George? How...

Harry Truman in a “bipartisan” moment with Lauren Bacall, a staunch liberal Democrat. This is about as “bipartisan as Harry got.” Last week was exhilarating for Democrats and, judging by the international...

While it is impossible to make clean definitions of what it means to be a member of the Progressive, Blue Dog, and New Democrat caucuses, a rough explanation would be the following: Progressive Caucus members tend to serve in...