Month: June 2011

We know it’s hot and dry in Texas. Texas has suffered from unprecedented drought and wildfires this Spring, and the forecast for Summer doesn’t look to be any better. What we didn’t know was that the local...

One way of looking at the cynicism of the Republican Party is to think about what would happen to them if they got what they say they want. They want a balanced budget amendment; they want to cut the budget by at least as much...

Actually, the name “news” really shouldn’t apply to what this diary discusses. Propaganda would be the more appropriate word. A report by Media Matters shows that from the period December 2009 until April 2011,...

The least hard thing to predict in politics over the last year has been that Evan Bayh would move from the Senate to corporate America’s lobbyist brothel. Let’s see, after telling Ezra Klein that he was quitting the...

I wish I had the lack of scruples you need to really cash in. I also wish that there were some some kind of liberal welfare. I do occasionally read Red State, and I find it second or third-rate in every measure that matters. Bad...