Updates To Resume on Friday

We apologize for the inconvenience, but updates will resume on Thursday.  Read More →

Tom Delay Tried to Fire Gay Clerk

According to former Congressional Clerk Jeff Trandahl, former Congressman Tom Delay tried to fire him because he was openly gay.  Read More →

GOP Candidates Skip Falwell Funeral

All 10 GOP candidates skipped the Falwell funeral, and the President only sent a “midlevel aid.”  Read More →

Small Glitches

After upgrading my database this morning, I noticed a few design and content glitches - particularly with the left sidebar and certain characters like ” ‘ ” in my posts. I will resolve them as soon as possible. For the most part, the blog should function normally. Thank you for your patience.  Read More →

New Republic Analyzes Liberal Bloggers

The New Republic has an amazing new piece up about liberal bloggers, and how they are falling victim to some of the same bandwagon partisanship that the far right has fallen victim to, although I believe that partisanship breeds this kind of behavior on both sides. The “netroots” are really a reaction to the Fox effect, I think, although a far higher-quality version, IMHO. An interesting... [Read more]

Bush v Specter v Gonzales

President Bush’s office released this Press Release on the Gonzales testimony: President Bush was pleased with the Attorney General’s testimony today. After hours of testimony in which he answered all of the Senators’ questions and provided thousands of pages of documents, he again showed that nothing improper occurred. Compare this with how Arlen Specter (R-PA) interpreted today’s... [Read more]

Sen Kerry Says it Was Wrong to Fire Imus

Senator Kerry made the following remarks to NY1 Political Anchor Dominic Carter: I think that the…you know the punishment has to fit the crime so to speak. I think a long suspension, or a strong suspension met with his appropriate level, given that the team forgave him. To me it was in the hands of the young women. They made the judgment that they thought he was genuine and they felt they could... [Read more]

Gunman Kills 30 People at Virginia Tech

The Gunman killed 8 people in a VA Tech dormroom, and then 22 people later in classrooms. Many students were outraged that there was a two hour gap between the dorm shootings and the classroom shootings, and the police and campus officials still had not done anything to resolve the situation. What happened today this was ridiculous,” student Jason Piatt told CNN. He said the first warning from... [Read more]

How Conservatives Interview Dick Cheney

From the DailyKos, an interview of Vice President Cheney by Don and Roma Wade, WLS 890-AM radio, Chicago. Q: Good morning, and welcome…. Nancy Pelosi thought nothing of going to Syria’s Assad with an alternative Democratic foreign policy, and, yet, balked, as we know, at meeting with our President — as did Reid — about funding the troops. How dangerous is this to the success... [Read more]

Kurt Vonnegut on Ronald Reagan

Kurt Vonnegut is now passed, aged 84. The Nation has decided to republish some of his writings he wrote for the publication which showed his enormous wit and intellect. He writes: “I am not an alcoholic. If I was, I would go before the nearest A.A. meeting and say, “My name is Kurt Vonnegut. I am an alcoholic.” God willing, that might be my first step down the long, hard road back... [Read more]

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