Month: January 2010

I call the following rhetoric from the State of the Union speech ‘aspirational,’ because it isn’t objectively true or false. It’s a call for all of us to be better people and better citizens. It...

State of the Union my royal Irish ass. State of Obama’s role in the dumbshow. State of the Storyboard. And I am beginning to realize that Mr. Obama doesn’t even understand his own role in the story. He thinks...

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. For half the world’s population, every meal depends on an open fire that is fueled by wood, coal, dung, and other smoke-producing combustibles. These indoor cookfires consume large...

Lawrence Korb provides the kind of constructive criticism of the “spending freeze” that I would like to see a lot more of from progressives. Military spending is an issue that progressives need to get on the table,...

I expected the reaction of the progressive blogosphere to this speech to be harsh, but it hasn’t been for the most part and I am not sure why. As best as I can guess, it’s because this speech reminded people why they...