55 years ago today, Negroes (to use the language of the day) in Montgomery AL were finishing the first week of what became a year-long bus boycott that initiated the nonviolent direct action phase of the civil rights movement....
Read MoreDavid Brooks is an insufferable jackass. I have no use for his designation of ‘cluster’ and ‘network’ liberals. But he does come close to approximating the truth with this bit: The big story of the week...
Read MoreJohn Lennon was killed when I was in sixth grade. My Spanish teacher kept a memorial for him up on the chalkboard for the rest of the year. She was cool. What were you doing when you heard John was dead? I feel...
Read MoreI think that this is a long and winding process. But I think at the end of the day, members are not going to want to be in their districts, senators are not going to want to be in their districts when their constituents...
Read MoreIn an article in the Washington Post today, one primarily about the contentious split between Senator Chuck Schumer (yeah, that Chuck Schumer, hardly a leading progressive in the Senate) and President Obama regarding the tax...
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