Some Democrats In Name Only don't get no respect. And it's not because they aren't real Democrats with real progressive values;...

We got another lesson on how our country and our politics work, this time from Target . A campaign contribution to a well-known anti-gay pol...

Stop me if you've heard this one before. For the last few days I've been in one of my pessimistic dark blue funks which have me just...

I'm not sure when I started obsessing about life and how quickly it seems to pass as I get older. It has definitely been a bigger blip ...

Why not give this a shot, eh? You and I agree on the death penalty. Prove to me that you are serious about troubling issues.

I noticed the other day that Condi Rice chipped in her two cents on the strategy being employed by Barack Obama in Afghanistan. Specifically...

I tried not to get too upset when I heard that a public option was off the table. I tried to get excited when the co-op idea seemed to gain...

Distracted Driving, Part 2 In a nice follow-up to the article which prompted me to write this post about texting while driving, the New Yor...

A number of people have asked for more details on my desire to spend almost my entire birthday in a federal court room. For the past four ye...

Ohio voters might be facing chaos again. More than 200,000 registered Ohio voters may be blocked from casting regular ballots on Election ...

Hey Barack and Hillary, I'm not sure which of you will capture the nomination. It honestly doesn't much matter to me at this point....

I don't like junk mail, solicitations for money, catalogs full of crap I wouldn't dream of owning, and department store flyers with ...

After reading the New York Times this morning I'm starting to seriously wonder if the US isn't destined to deal with a cultural divi...

What a game! The Nigerian government's most prominent corruption fighter, Nuhu Ribadu, plans to resign Thursday under pressure from top...

Thanks for all the turmoil and upheaval . What would a year be without it? Peaceful? We'll know early tomorrow whether the election i...

I can only think of one thing less surprising than the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and this is it. The Islamic militant group blamed ...

And there will be hell to pay . On so many levels. Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack ...

A lot of dicks in the world get greased and pulled for political gain. Russia is a shining example. A day after President Vladimir V. Put...

That's a job I'd like to have. I delete dozens a day actually and get paid for doing it. But how long would it take to delete 5 mi...