Month: January 2011

One of the oddest pieces of U.S. history is that we passed a constitutional amendment to ban the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” and then a mere fourteen years later passed another...

Some on the right are protesting their innocence and angrily proclaiming it terribly unfair to say their rhetoric in any way contributed to the weekend’s violence.  Here is why they are wrong. Cross posted from...

I’m feeling really hopeful that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will make a very substantial recovery. According to her physicians, she can breath on her own but they are still giving her an oxygen tube to avoid the possibility of...

Pay attention all you: *progressives who are thoroughly disgusted with Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, et al, for their endless compromises the past two years; *liberals who are disheartened at the current state of national politics...

I want to do this as a useful exercise. We have 53 senators, but we’re going to have a devil of a time preventing the Republicans from taking over the Senate in 2013. Below I am listing all the Republicans who are going to...