Recently, the latest Taser fatality occurred in Phoenix, Arizona, not far from the TASER International corporate headquarters in… Read full post »

Image source – The Feminist Press

These were the opening words of the Baghdad Burning blog written by Riverbend.  It has been o/… Read full post »

Check this one out.

If you thought the “Massachusetts Miracle” video was cheesy, this Illinois political video presentation by the Republicans is even cheesier.  At least this one is clever, with the Tony Saprano tie-in and the Godfather captions. 

Notice that neither t… Read full post »

I mentioned in a post last weekend that the conservatives would come out swinging after the beating they took at their Congressional retreat last Friday, and that their target would be the Liberal Main Stream Media – in particular MSNBC.  Well, they didn’t disappoint us/… Read full post »

only ends up making the whole world blind.

Mohandas Gandhi

Drone Madness

The CIA should heed these words of wisdom.  Revenge appears to be the primary motivation behind the escalation of drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan.  As noted by Scott Shane an… Read full post »

A modification to the Separation of Powers feature of the United States government was announced last week when Rahm Emanuel, a member of the Executive Branch, officially established the Congressional Order of Business for the Legislative Branch.  According to The New York Ti… Read full post »

The conservatives took a well-deserved beating this past week.  Expect them to retreat to their usual fall-back position, i.e. blaming the liberal media for attacking their righteous patriotic principals.  

MSNBC will be the main target for their attacks.  Expect to… Read full post »

Hope for Haiti Now

Image source – Jacob University

We often hear that Barack Obama is playing multi-dimensional chess.  This appears to be a good analogy. 

Actually, it’s nice knowing that our president is thinking beyond his adversaries’ next move.  With Bush,/… Read full post »

Many of us may remember J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye as being required reading in our junior high school English classes.  And indeed it should have been.  This excellent example of simple English prose will remain a masterpiece forever. 

Salinger became a… Read full post »

 

The 40^th annual World Economic Forum starts tomorrow in the beautiful alpine village of Davos, Switzerland.

Econo-nerds have been waiting for this Super Bowl of Economic Debate all year.  Most of the panel discussions will be available on Podcasts and Webcasts, and the p/… Read full post »

What do these two politicians have in common?

John Edwards and Newt Gingrich

John Edwards is a smart guy.  He used his intellect to spearhead many populist causes, including:

·         Senate legislation on patients’ right… Read full post »

“We’ll never ever survive unless we get a little crazy.”

Regardless of what you do in regard to health care reform, the Republicans are going to call you crazy.  So - Why not get a little crazy?   

Use reconciliation in the Senate to pass… Read full post »

The Majority of (Corporate) Dollars = The Majority of American Votes

James Madison feared the Tyranny of the Majority when he wrote in Federalist Paper 51:

"It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one… Read full post »

Jan Crawford Greenberg, currently chief legal analyst… Read full post »

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In February of 2007, Paul Krugman wrote a health care reform op-ed entitled “Edwards Gets It Right.”  The primary reasons for Dr. Krugman’s approval of the Edwards plan centered on the public option and mandate featu/… Read full post »

 A picture speaks a thousand words.

Image source – Associated Press

Damon Winter has posted some heart wrenching photographs on the New York Times - Lens blog.  Damon has been in Port-au-Prince since Wednesday.  His photos tell a tragic story. 

The 16 image sl… Read full post »

Truly one of the most memorable speeches in American history took place in Indiana on April 4, 1968.  Robert Kennedy, addressing a predominately African American neighborhood in Indianapolis, announced that Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot earlier that day.  Kennedy w/… Read full post »

Get a load of this one.

This is today’s video release from the Massachusetts Republicans.  Have you ever seen anything so cheesy?  Two days before the election, and this is the best they can do? 

Earlier today a friend, Wendell Wingnut, sent me a copy of the… Read full post »

Winter

C&L’s Music Club featured Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (Winter) last night.  The video scenes are presented by Ferenc Cakó, the Hungarian animation film director.  His sand animation provides a beautiful accompaniment to this Vivaldi violin concerto. … Read full post »

I remember the first time I heard Santana’s “Europa (Earth’s Cry - Heaven’s Smile).”  I was sitting at a beach-side bar in Ensenada, Mexico.  The scene was very similar to the one in the You Tube video posted above.  In fact, I often/… Read full post »

 White House abandons Grassroots

Once Barack Obama turned his back on the public option, the marriage was over. 

David Corn has an interesting article in Mother Jones today which questions the White House’s allegiance to Organizing for America (OFA) the grassroots group/… Read full post »

The Pew Research Center recently did a study on “How News Happens.” The results provide some interesting insights into the origin of our local news stories.  This study was done in one metropolitan area, Baltimore, which is likely representative of most major… Read full post »

So says George Will.

“California pays the price for years of leftward drift” 

George Will wrote an op-ed piece in The Arizona Republic today that clearly demonstrates his inability to grasp the reality of California politics.  He began with this subjective sta… Read full post »