Month: December 2013

Eight year olds, dude: The Senate will vote through the weekend on pending nominations that Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., would like to see completed before Christmas — just don’t expect most Republicans to be there for...

Highly recommend reading the NYTimes Invisible Child The last time I recall reading anything that incensed me as much was Randy Schilts’ And The Band Played On.  The combination of institutional haplessness, to be...

It appears that this Duck Dynasty controversy has really touched a nerve with the people at Fox News, who consider it “a purge of southern white Christian patriotic culture” to suspend a man for arguing that blacks...

Six days a week, every week, from 1936 to 1962, Eleanor Roosevelt had a column called My Day published by United Feature Syndicate in New York. Here is a snippet from her April 19, 1952 column, during the height of the McCarthy...

If former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is going to challenge Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party, he is going to have to attack her record. Now, there are a lot of areas to attack because...