60 Percent of US Teens Now Support Torture
This is what a generation of conservative rule and conservative values has wrought: [N]ow, during a time of two overseas wars, Americans’ opinions on torture seem to have fractured, and largely on...
View ArticleYou're a Backward-Looking Conservative, You Pissy Little Progressive
For those of you who are desperately trying to get the Democrats back "on track," doing the things you think you elected them for, like restoring jobs, protecting Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security...
View ArticlePeak Wingnut and White Guilt
Ed Kilgore notes that the Republican establishment is desperately trying to take down Donald Trump, fearing that such a clown-like candidate will hurt their entire field with a general electorate, but...
View ArticleDonald Trump, Supertroll
I kind of subscribe to this view myself, though I don't think he'll take it as far as actually running: His very presence in the race would alter the laws of political gravity, and would force half...
View ArticleThe Skeleton In Mitt Romney's Closet
The Onion rattles the skeleton in Mitt Romney's closet: Romney, who signed the state's 2006 health care reform act, has said he "deeply regrets" giving people in poor physical and mental health the...
View ArticleConservatives For Universal Single-Payer
Ezra Klein notes the unimaginable difference between positions on health care taken by the major political parties in Canada during a heated election campaign versus the discourse on the same topic...
View ArticleDid Torture Help Track Down Osama Bin Laden? An Interrogator's Answer
Did torture help track down and kill Osama Bin Laden the way the right-wingers are claiming? Matthew Alexander, former senior military interrogator in Iraq, who participated in over 1,300...
View ArticleOMG! Obama's Gonna Track Your Car!
Via memeorandum, apparently the Obama administration is planning to tax cars by the mile traveled. This will involve tracking cars by installing electronic equipment on them to record how many miles...
View ArticleWhat We Need Is a Third Party
No, not for us, silly. Liberals, leftists, social democrats, progressives, Democrats and other non-conservatives need a third party like a hole in the head. But that's what a majority of Republicans...
View ArticleTed Rall Calls Out 'Obamabots'
So will Ted Rall soon be joining the ranks of DK4's terrific new lineup of political cartoonists? In the 1990s it was OK to attack Clinton from the left. I went after the Man From Hope and his...
View ArticleLooking For Love In All the Wrong Places
Poor Cass Sunstein. The White House's regulatory czar proudly took the results of his four-month-long regulatory review to the op-ed page of the right-wing Wall Street Journal and a presentation at...
View ArticlePawlenty Thinks U.S. Is Occupying Iran
Noted foreign policy expert Tim Pawlenty: REPORTER: U.S. foreign policy towards Iran [unintelligible] how would you address contradictions in the U.S? On the one hand we are opposing Iranian policy,...
View ArticleEducation Reform: Doing It Wrong and How to Do It Right
There's a good post on education reform from Dana Goldstein, a journalist specializing in education who is one of the bloggers filling in for Ezra Klein while he's on vacation. She summarizes part of...
View Article11-Dimensional Chess!
Congressional Democrats met with President Obama today and asked him would he PLEASE unequivocably stand up for Democratic priorities and for the policy agenda of his party? WASHINGTON --...
View ArticleSay Goodbye to Fairness
This is symbolic, of course, as the Fairness Doctrine was ruled "unconstitutional and unenforceable" back in 1987, but still...: (via) FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has told Congress he supports...
View ArticleFinally Facing Up to Reality in Afghanistan?
This is great news ahead of President Obama's July deadline for deciding how many troops to withdraw from Afghanistan: Obama administration officials and lawmakers are lowering the bar for success in...
View ArticleThis Is What Could Be
If you're feeling a bit down about how out of touch politicians are and how broken the political system is, consider that there are other ways of doing things than how they're currently being done,...
View ArticleTornado Trump
This is a hilarious must-see video. Donald Trump slams Republicans while promoting his "tremendous hit" show and threatening to run as an independent if the "wrong person" is nominated by the...
View ArticleThis Kind of Pandering Is Counter-Productive
Today President Obama launched the Campaign to Cut Waste, and appointed Joe Biden to head it. President Obama: Targeting waste and making government more efficient have been a priority for my...
View ArticleDoomed
I know Cenk Uygur isn't the most popular person around here, but he's utterly right in his angry, incredulous reaction to Rep. Earl Blumenauer. We've come to expect centrism and expeditious compromise...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....