We now have what amounts to another debate on HCR and we need to be better prepared for it this time.
Let’s make this argument be based on facts and reality.
Dazed, I turned only to see said chorus approaching, grinning, with one of them rapping the words "Slam Slam Cinderella.” To add to the surreal quality of the event: I didn't feel humiliated.
As reported in many publications all new and returning Democratic Senators have signed a letter pledging to have filibuster reform. Is it time to make a change, the first since 1975? What is the Planet's POV?
When it comes to the Bush Tax Cuts, the Devil is in the details...and the bargaining room.
I'm giving up officially. On politics. Specifically, American politics.
I was raised in what my mother regularly called "a Democratic kitchen" in the South, by parents who had been Roosevelt Democrats. My father cast his first vote as a 21...
Thank you for signing on to the obstructionist dog and pony show contrived by your Republican colleagues in the Senate. Have you signed the “secret” letter being circulated in the hallways of the Senate Building, akin to passing notes in study hall?
Two years ago, the American people delivered their mandate. They chose an intelligent, intellectual, well-spoken and inspirational African American man to lead their country as President of the United States. Not only did they merely elect him and his...
Midterm election articles
It is a given that the party out of power picks up seats in the off year election.
Why is that? The logic would seem simple. American voters have the patience and vision of a nearsighted 3 year old. Every...
I've been thinking a lot about Watergate lately.
Watergate, as much as it was a political coming-of-age for America, coincided with my own personal coming-of-age. The actual break-in occurred just weeks after I'd graduated from high school and the initial...
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