Month: September 2009

Rep. Charlie Melancon (D) is challenging Diaper Dave Vitter’s Louisiana senate seat in the 2010 election. The Senate Guru has seven reasons why progressives should support his efforts, even though Mr. Melancon is a very...

George Stephanopoulos asks five questions about health care. 1 – What is “death with dignity” for the public option? Is it better for the president to sacrifice it himself? Or convince Democratic leaders behind closed doors to...

I get frustrated with the frequency with which people write about the treatment of detainees without getting their facts straight. But let me just make a little aside here. I am not one of the people that utilized the argument...

I always knew the US used a lot of private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. I just never suspected that the number of mercenaries the US government employed would be so large it would exceed the number of official,...

Because our national media (including many of the few progressive commentators) are basically retarded and can’t read a poll the narrative in Washington now goes like this: Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar...