Author: Madman in the Marketplace

It seems pretty obvious that the current administration is a coalition of bullies. They have made this entire country a bully among nations. They run roughshod over political opponents. They try to crush critics and political...

There is a conceit in much of the discourse over politics today: that politics is antithetical to idealism. Idealists, especially on the left, are written off as being “single issue voters”, “special interest...

I’m not usually one to do this, but please check out and support this diary by stormcoming at dKos. Abortion is about autonomy. Autonomy is a core value. Sorry Markos, but “abortion” IS the whole ball of wax....

It never seems to end. The endless calls for the left to fall in line  from certain elements of the institutional Democratic Party (always eager to give a quote “off the record”), “liberal”...