The Texas gubernatorial race: Time for a change EDITORIAL BOARD Published: 6:59 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 The temperature rises when Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White enters a room, but not much. When he speaks, the excitement level goes up, but gradually. His speeches are devoid of anything that takes a crowd from zero […]

WOW. Chris Wallace must be thinking about leaving FoxNews. He actually challenged the standard GOP lie about Healthcare Reform insuring illegal aliens. If we had more challenges to the misinformation earlier on not only by FoxNews(wishful thinking), but but by the mainstream media, we would have gotten a better bill and addressed more prescient policy […]

Frank Rich in the New York Times article Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell hit it on the money. While it is true that the Tea Party was a corporate induced grass roots movement, he does not expose the complicity of the mainstream media including the New York Times in allowing a small movement to […]

Markos Moulitsas wrote a book this year called American Taliban that I purchased a few weeks ago. He got some flack for graphically detailing the realities of the Right Wing movement. Those who claim he was using “Rush Limbaugh” tactics simply need t listen to the words of Jim Demint and many others in the Right […]

The lack of substantive coverage of this event, The One Nation Rally, by all the major media outlets is sad. Had it been the Tea Party they would have been all over it. Many in the mainstream media so fear being called liberal leaning that they tend to disregard anything emanating from progressives. While this […]

Progressives are starting to show signs of life. While many think it is too late I think it is best not to peak to early. Let the other side get a false sense of invincibility. We must fight like the entire universe is against us and bring home a progressive victory to keep the country […]

Many Americans are not yet cognizant of the real power of Brazil’s economy backed as well by huge untapped natural resources. While we haggle at home about insidious social issues as we watch a disappearing middleclass, we have countries like Brazil electing governments that see their people as well as a resource with a goal […]

Is this the America we want? Well if we allow the policies of the last 30 years to be re-enabled, this is what we get. It is a mathematical certainty. I describe much of this in my new book As I See It: Class Warfare: The Only Resort To Right Wing Doom. Midnight Shopping On […]

Is this the America we want? Well if we allow the policies of the last 30 years to be re-enabled, this is what we get. It is a mathematical certainty. I describe much of this in my new book As I See It: Class Warfare: The Only Resort To Right Wing Doom. Midnight Shopping On […]