Month: September 2010

Sen. Lindsey G. Wants War with Iran

I know it is election season. I know Republican politicians for the last decade have been willing to say anything (Hello, Dick Cheney, and you too George Bush) to make counties with no capability to attack the United States into...

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Big Vote This Afternoon

At around 2:15pm the Senate will hold a cloture vote on this year’s Defense Appropriations Bill. The base bill includes a repeal of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy. During the markup of the bill, Republican...

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Could Alaska Go To The Dems?

Before there were tea parties there was the rise of the progressive blogosphere. We had our own insurgent candidates. Most notably, we had Jon Tester, Jim Webb, Donna Edwards, and Ned Lamont. There were others, of course, but...

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We Will Be Watching: Victory for the DREAM Act

Originally posted at Citizen Orange.The fate of almost a million lives could be decided in the next six hours.  As a voter, as a millenial, as a migrant, as a Guatemalan, I’m writing to say that I will be watching...

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