Month: May 2009

When Samuel Alito was confirmed, only four Democrats voted for him (Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, and Robert Byrd of West Virginia). However, the real vote was to invoke...

According to Paul Kane, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has the inside path to be the Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee that will oversee David Souter’s replacement on the Supreme Court. In an odd twist the man...

The Glory of Love:

Hooverville, Seattle, 1937 Whiteysphere, you elected no hope. So, youve gotten more empire and war, but of course that matters only to `those people over there, the ones not like me.’ No, what actually will matter to you,...

I think it was sometime in September 1972 when Hunter S. Thompson realized that George McGovern wasn’t just going to lose to Richard Nixon, but get absolutely crushed. Even after Kent State, after Jackson State, after the...