Month: February 2009

A decision by the Obama administration has provoked criticism from civil and human rights groups, but much of it is based on a frame of reference left over from the Bush years.  As long as that continues so will the...

The Senate passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 tonight by a vote of 60-38. Sen. Sherrod Brown had to fly back from his mother’s memorial service in Ohio to get the Democrats to the magic number of...

Glenn Greenwald creates a bizarre construction of reality wherein the Democrats are the party of Dear Leaderism and the Republicans are the party known for dissent within the ranks. In my experience, the Left in this country is...

Tax cuts, tax cuts. That’s all the Republicans believe in anymore (well that and gun show loopholes, attacking homosexual marriages and punking Barack Obama). But we’ve been living the tax cut dream for the last...