Far be it from me to start agreeing with Matt Drudge's assistant, but Andrew Breitbart is right on this one. Perez Hilton's gutter-level attacks on Miss California were out of line. I don't care how celeb-fab you think you are, or how passionate you are about gay rights. You shouldn't… Read full post »

When Dick Cheney mounted his full-throated defense of the previous administration's national security state at the curiously named American Enterprise Institute this afternoon, he made his core argument (that the Bush-Cheney torture and surveillance programs should be praised by a grateful nat… Read full post »

Would the Republican Party, already shrinking away to nothingness under the weight of a demographic tsunami, dare to oppose what would be the first Hispanic and only the third woman to serve on the Supreme Court? Would they risk alienating the multiple interest groups who will be galvanized/… Read full post »

I don't know what the president is going to say tonight in his joint address to Congress. But after the "summer of crazy," in which the president and his team lost the communications battle against a lunatic smorgasbord of charges, from death panels to socialism, and with an… Read full post »

With major healthcare reform sputtering as the clock runs out on the current session on Capitol Hill, it's tempting to blame the Republicans for what appears, for now, to be the failure of the 111th Congress to deliver on 60-odd years of trying to get universal healthcare for Americans, the wa… Read full post »

I was tough on Bill Clinton (and Hillary Clinton) during the 2008 campaign, on my blog and on the radio. Like many African-Americans, I had what you might call a disharmonious divergence from my former status as a "Clinton Democrat," due to the harshness of the primary campaign with Barack Obama.… Read full post »

Jackson's performance of the Moon Walk at the Motown 25th
anniversary TV special on May 16, 1983 rocked the world.
I was in junior high, and yeah, it was the shit.

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The Kennedy brothers are all gone, but Democrats can fulfill
Teddy's last wish.

With Ted Kennedy's passing, the burden of fulfilling his life's work -- making sure that every American has access to decent, basic healthcare, something any civilized society should provide -- falls to… Read full post »

Harry Truman in uniform in 1916, as an officer during World I.

Gay rights activists have given mixed reviews to President Obama's "big gay speech" the other night, with many, including radio host Michelangelo Signorili, saying they're tired of words. They want action from this preside… Read full post »

I know everyone wants to talk about President Obama's powerful performance last night in his non-SOTU SOTU address, but sorry, I just can't get Bobby Jindal's response out of my mind. Yes, yes, it was problematic in that it lacked specific remedies to our economic woes that could confer credibility o… Read full post »

With Obama having traveled to Capitol Hill today to try and sell his omnibus budget, we're witnessing a singular spectacle in American politics. Namely, the same legislators who brought you $1.3 trillion in deficits, who greenlighted any and everything George W. Bush asked for, without a whiff of deb… Read full post »

Consider it a foregone conclusion that Mitt Romney no longer believes he can carry Michigan in 2012 (that election may be a throwaway for Republicans anyway.) His recent op-ed on the virtues of sending Detroit automakers into bankruptcy won't help him in the state where he… Read full post »