Month: January 2010

I think it is probably time to start a Michael Steele death watch. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. That’s just how a brother rolls. I can empathize right on my behind.

Although official unemployment in New York City is 10.1 percent, a closer looks reveals an underlying complexity to the story.  Rates of unemployment vary greatly across the city.  Last month, the Fiscal Policy...

Charlie Cook is a decent analyst but he seems to have modestly Republican preferences that sometimes shade his analysis. Come November, Senate Democrats’ 60-vote supermajority is toast. It is difficult, if not impossible,...

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. While touring Lilongwe, Malawi, we met Kambuku (which means “leopard” in Chichewa), who was soundly sleeping in his 2,500 sq meter backyard of fenced green landscape. He was...

Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual...