Month: November 2015

How Did You Like Bernie’s Socialism Speech?

I finally got around to reading Bernie Sanders’ speech on the meaning of Democratic Socialism. I hope it gets wide circulation on social media. I think that a lot of people who’ve never had a positive thought about...

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Democrats and White Working Class Voters

In the November/December 2015 issue of the Washington Monthly, our rising new star Nancy LeTourneau has a review of Stanley Greenberg’s new book: America Ascendant: A Revolutionary Nation’s Path to Addressing Its...

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Learning from Churchill

Just to give you something to talk about this morning, the following is a little snippet from Winston Churchill’s famous “we’ll fight on the beaches” speech he delivered to Parliament on June 4th, 1940,...

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These Men Are Cowards, Donny, Part Two

I’m not trying to pick on Kevin Drum but I really think he’s off base on how he’s examining this refugee issue. At the root of the problem is something I identified in my prior piece on this issue. Kevin is...

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