Month: November 2013

Brian Beutler is one of the savviest political analysts in the country right now. For example, he (as did I) completely nailed how the government shutdown would go more than a month beforehand. When he writes something I...

In 2011, two women activists stood out enough to me that a penned a few words about them in When Women Lead.   The first one, Asmaa Mahfouz, had been instrumental in a revolution and the ouster of Mubarek.  The hopes...

I suppose it is possible that Greg Sargent is being used as a conduit to issue a credible threat, but the threat (and the reasoning behind the threat) seems credible to me. Harry Reid intends to “go nuclear” before...

They really can’t top “keep government out of my Medicare” for sheer ignorance.  So today they settled for ignorant and sheer hypocrisy while demonstrating that they’d eat Polonium-210 if a bagger...

Ron Fournier is the most self-refuting pundit in America. He never quite realizes that the Republicans are able to accomplish one thing, and one thing only. Through their total obstruction, they make it impossible for the...