Author: janinsanfran

Calling all Elderbloggers — let’s show the country that not all folks over 50 in the United States are ignorant nitwits opposed to health care reform. If you’ve got a blog, post your support for reform on...

Promoted by Steven D Last night the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRC) held a fundraising dinner in San Francisco. Many local activists consider HRC a Washington Beltway outfit that rakes in liberal LGBT donations, but which...

This diary is in support of Steven D’s excellent “Some Questions for Our Democratic Leaders” — I posted it earlier this week at Happening Here before the discouraging MoveOn vote. It seems only more true...

A couple of days ago, Barack Obama published an oped about his plans to “put pressure” on Iran. From Obama’s website, here’s his rationale for “putting pressure”: The decision to wage a...

Everyone who gives a damn about the U.S Constitution is buzzing this week about Democratic legislators’ craven capitulation on the Bush administration’s new FISA law that has immunized invasions of our private...