Month: July 2016

Stay classy, Philippines: The newly elected Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, urged a crowd of about 500 people on Thursday to kill drug addicts, according to the Guardian. “If you know of any addicts, go ahead and...

I think The Field Negro is actually a little too polite about Roger L. Simon’s essay blaming Democrats for the deterioration in race relations in this country during the Obama Era. I just wonder if Mr. Simon is aware of...

Amber Phillips, writing for the Washington Post’s The Fix, identifies four reasons why Bernie Sanders didn’t endorse Hillary Clinton before today. These can be summarized as: some combination of vanity and a desire...

impersonation embodied in this gear is intentional, i.e., marketing? [courtesy digby] I’m inclined to think so. Given that policing (or, similarly, military) grants some legal sanction to exercising authority over others,...

Progressive Democrats thought that they’d seen the last of Evan Bayh, but they haven’t. He will run for Senate to win back the seat he vacated in 2010. He reportedly has $10 million still in his coffers, so...