Month: April 2009

{First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru.} Before Arlen Specter’s Party switch announcement yesterday, the Senate’s Democratic caucus stood at 58 members.  Senator-elect Al Franken represented...

House Minority Leader John Boehner has an interesting reaction to the Hate Crimes Bill: He attacked Democratic initiatives such as a “hate crimes” bill being considered this week in the House, which would boost the...

European Campaign to End the Siege of Gaza, (ECESG) is sending a big convoy of more than 100 trucks to Gaza in early May to deliver wheelchairs, medical tools and toys, and to provide medicines that currently ran out in Gaza....

Buried in a story about a challenge to the Voting Rights Act filed by a conservative activist lawyer and former law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas was this interesting tidbit: Ten percent of white Alabamians voted for Obama,...

The topic below was originally published on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal, yesterday evening. When an office colleague told me this afternoon that Republican Senator Arlen Specter defected to the Democratic Party, I had...