Month: October 2009

As Harry Reid works through all the negotiations to bring a health care bill to the Senate floor, it is encouraging to hear him say that he is leaning towards a public option. It makes me wonder why Obama seems to be dampening...

A small sliver of me still holds on to the expectation that our Congress will set a positive example and not act like third-graders. I am going to be a father soon, and I’d like it if my government didn’t serve as...

In honor of the Right Wing’s Boycott of the NFL because Rush Limbaugh was not allowed into their exclusive club of a bunch of rich white guys NFL Team Owners. Wonder how that’s going?

At least, that headline is the meme I expect most conservative blogs and their Leaders (Rush the Persecuted, O’Reilly the Terrible, and St. Glenn of the Weeping Beck) to employ when they spin this story about the US...

A report issued by the White House and the Education Department on Monday showed that the federal economic stimulus package (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) has so far created or saved 250,000 education jobs. The...