Month: July 2010

Welcome to the Nourishing the Planet project diary on Booman Tribune. As world hunger numbers top 1 billion, we are reporting from on the ground in sub-Saharan Africa to both inform global efforts to eradicate hunger and raise...

I find political prognosticators to be boring when they fail to predict what will happen on election day and merely tell you what would happen if the vote happened today. Who cares what would happen today? Political campaigns...

It’s interesting to see how the right is trying to salve their conscience over what Andrew Breitbart did to Shirley Sherrod’s career and reputation. Even when they acknowledge the moral imperative for Breitbart to...

Who could have predicted that Democratic senators would live to regret voting to confirm John Roberts and Samuel Alito?

This is my first diary on this great blog.  Usually, I just lurk around and make the odd comment but I wanted to say something about Obama and race that was prompted by Rachel Maddow’s show last night. Rachel made the...