Month: February 2010

Anyone want to take a stab at listing what Obama would have accomplished if the House of Representatives were our only legislative chamber? Like, not only what the House has passed over the last year, but what they would have...

. This was the heading of a fp story @Booman on Sept. 4, 2006. Now the real facts show a corrupt police investigation to shield officers from prosecution and liability. Police supervisor encouraged cover-up, knew officer planted...

While it is a deeply-held American belief that we’re all in this together, there has long been a truism that when the economy gets a cold, the poor get pneumonia. It’s a glib way of noting that any downturn in the...

We love the energy of Maputo. It’s the good kind of energy where we never felt like people were trying to hustle us like in the tourist traps of Arusha and Zanzibar, Tanzania. We also felt safe to wander in the evenings...

When it comes time to sort out the heroes and villains of the struggle to pass health care reform, Kent Conrad is definitely going to be in the villain column. “The only way this works is for the House to pass the Senate...