Michael Tomasky has a terrific web-exclusive article online at The American Prospect’s website that I’d really recommend reading. It’s about why liberals should be angry, but why we’ll need more than anger to beat Bush and the GOP. Though Tomasky doesn’t specify his inspiration, I’m fairly certain it was a recent article by David Brooks […]
Unemployment increased to a nine-year high in June, with the unemployment rate reaching 6.4%, far worse than expected. In total, 30,000 private sector jobs were lost last month, on top of 70,000 job cuts in May. Two million people were unemployed for 27 weeks or more last month, an increase of 410,000 since the start […]
Just to follow up on my post from yesterday on Roy Moore’s religious crusade in Alabama, I wanted to mention that everyone’s favorite theocrat held a press conference yesterday. I don’t think it went well. Predictably, Moore condemned the 11 Circuit Court of Appeals for its unanimous ruling against his Ten Commandments monument, describing the […]
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve seen about as many stories that mention Howard Dean’s incredible online success as any other political story in America. Probably more. The Washington Post, for example, said Dean has “clearly tapped into something” by “running an ever-expanding grass-roots campaign online.” Mother Jones said that Dean “has tapped [the […]
Alabama State Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is not your typical religious right activist. For one thing, there’s that impressive title — most far-right theocrats don’t sit atop state supreme courts. More importantly, however, Moore has intentionally set the stage for a high-profile legal fight over whether (and how) the government can endorse religion. […]
It’s the beginning of the month and so we return, once again, to my completely subjective rankings for the Democrats running for president. I was going to do this yesterday, but I waited another day to get more fundraising info for the second quarter. As always, these rankings are my impression on where the candidates […]
Remember all the fun we had weeks ago when Democrats in the Texas state legislature left town and Republicans went berserk and misused the federal Department of Homeland Security? Of course you do; those were good times. But in our fun, it was easy to forget why Democrats fled to Ardmore, Okla., in the first […]
I remember during the Florida recount debacle of 2000, there were a couple of days immediately following Election Day when “overseas” ballots still needed to be counted. There was an assumption that the overwhelming majority of these ballots would be for Bush because most of these voters were military personnel, and, well, military folks vote […]
While I’m frequently frustrated with most of the national press for treating Bush with kid gloves, there are two high-profile journalists who don’t mind pointing to Bush’s often-outrageous lies. One is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and the other is Washington Post White House reporter Dana Milbank. (In some ways, Milbank’s efforts are even […]
A new CNN poll on public attitudes about the war in Iraq has a few details that I found interesting. Most of the data is pretty straightforward and predictable. When asked how well things are going in Iraq, 56% said things are going well while 42% said poorly. While I’m not sure where those in […]