President Bush has urged Democrats not to despair and encouraged them to run for office in Texas with a "big heart." According to the Globe, the President met Tuesday with the right-leaning Boston Herald's editorial board to discuss … [Read more...]

Well, will wonders never cease?  David Brooks, the NY Times's "sensible" conservative, has discovered that, in America, "the family you were born into matters more and more to how you will fare in life."  He … [Read more...]

Link: (hat tip to New Donkey)LONDON, England (AP) -- Global warming isapproaching the critical point of no return, after which widespreaddrought, crop failure and rising sea-levels would be irreversible, aninternational climate change task … [Read more...]

From today's WaPo:"As we move forward with our efforts to talk about the problem and the need for reform, administration officials are talking about what leaders of the Democrat Party have said about the problem," White House … [Read more...]

This is the kind of news report that, along with the FBI's admission it cannot design a computer system even with a $170 million budget, makes one uneasy about how well our security is being protected:The FBI has announced that a Chinese … [Read more...]

DFA said: "This list of supporters signifies that people in every region of the country approve of Dean's vision and structure that he wants to bring to the DNC. "The support of these influential chairs and vice chairs from all … [Read more...]

The Pentagon has fired 37 Arabic translators for being gay, Democracy Now reported last month. In November, CBS News reported that nine Army linguists, including six trained to speak Arabic, had been dismissed from the military because they … [Read more...]

Folks who support the destruction of Social Security are fond of saying that the Social Security Trust Fund has no real assets; it's broke; it's just a bunch of worthless IOUs.  For example:"The trust fund is bankrupt; it is IOUs … [Read more...]

George Lakoff has advanced our discussion of political discourse quite a bit. The blogs are abuzz with talk of "frames", and "fixing broken political discourse." That's good. The Dems need a good dose of clarity, brevity … [Read more...]

Here's a repository of articles and so forth on the Social Insecurity non-crisis, in blog format: www.thereisnocrisis.com.Knowledge is power. Let's use it.And let's quote Roger Lowenstein of the NY Times Magazine, just for kicks and … [Read more...]