Month: August 2010

Originally posted at my site Bob Higgins Before I had a chance to finish my first cup of coffee this morning I was swatted with the news (from Al Jazeera) that Iraq says we “must stay until 2020.” This shocking news...

There is a recommended diary at Daily Kos by a user named puakev that does something I’ve been wanting to do all year. It goes back and looks at how liberals and progressives reacted and interacted with the FDR...

My son in law is very big in the belief of the tea party. I’m afraid that he & others are just being used. The changes they seek seem to be so lofty & virtuous that they are not doable. He sights the book entitled...

It’s that time of the month when I ask some of you to make a contribution to the care and maintenance of the Frog Pond. For a while now I’ve been dependent on the considerable generosity of our readers to keep this...

One of the more interesting things discussed in Jeffrey Goldberg’s piece on Israel and Iran is the way Israel views the threats of a nuclear Iran that are unrelated to the actual use of the weapons. The challenges posed by...