Month: April 2015

If you think of MSNBC’s Morning Joe program as a hard-hitting news show then you’ll probably throw up in your mouth a little watching White House consigliere Valerie Jarrett go around the table this morning prior to...

The 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test was a better piece of legislation than I anticipated. I thought it was designed to weed out black voters who might be uppity enough to want to participate in our electoral process, but it appears...

Bob Corker got rolled. Now he needs something else to bitch about.

Am I too grumpy? I think I’m too grumpy.

I am “a particular kind of snot-nosed urban progressive,” but not because I live in the city. I spent many years living in Los Angeles and Philadelphia, and I grew up in New York City’s shadow, but I’ve...