Link: Al Gore slams ‘trivialities and nonsense’ in news media. Many have opined that Al Gore is absolutely not running for President because no Presidential candidate in his right mind would write a book like "The Assault on Reason". I can’t really speak to that in detail yet, because I haven’t finished the book, but … Read more
There is likely to be a lot of backslapping among Democrats who think that allowing the occupation of Iraq to continue without any conditions or accountability is smart politics, even though it is disastrously bad policy: at least Bush owns the policy, not us, is the thinking. It is true that now that the Democratic … Read more
I haven’t felt much like posting of late. Every time I think I might want to write about the many currents of national or local politics, I start to circle the drain thinking about just how low the state of our republic has been brought. We are stuck in orbit about a giant black hole … Read more
Link: Viewers Say Romney (29%) and Paul (25%) won GOP SC Debate, Not Giuliani (19%). I’ve examined the footage of Saturday’s GOP debate and I am very excited. Ron Paul is tearing the stuffing out of the GOP’s 9/11 straw man. Paul had the temerity to question the self-righteous, blindly chauvinist framing by the GOP … Read more
The Open House Project has launched, and in my opinion, this is the most important progressive reform measure during this Congress. The Sunlight Foundation has partnered in a non-partisan and bi-partisan fashion with a wide range of organizations to bring to fruition a consensus report suggesting a number of reforms designed to open Congress to … Read more