Month: April 2010

I don’t know if Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln’s primary challenger, Bill Halter, is a progressive, but I have to assume he at least wouldn’t undercut his own caucus in the Senate as frequently and blatantly...

Roughly speaking, I think we have three main political problems in this country: 1) that too many people with a megaphone talk crap; 2) that too many citizens believe crap; and 3) the ratio of crap to non-crap in the public...

David Corn points out that when it comes to making gains in the upcoming midterm elections, the GOP may be their own worst enemy. After all, the party is a mess, Michael Steele is a joke, they have no positive agenda, and...

Well, we added some jobs last month for a change. Payroll employment increased by 162,000. That’s the good news. The bad news is that a lot of those jobs were for the Census and for temporary work. The unemployment rate is...

Welcome to Friday Foto Flogging, a place to share your photos and photography news. We were inspired by the folks at European Tribune who post a regular Friday Photoblog series to try the same on this side of the virtual...