My dad, who died in 1967, was a member of the CIO, the United Steelworkers of America, then when the Congress of Industrial Organizations merged with the American Federation of Labor, the Plumbers Local #55 in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was an elected official of that union. The final year of his life, his influence […]

Looks like the left in France has run out of gas, no more “nouvelle philosophes”… instead, a “nouvelle Obama” named Harlem (as in A train) Desir (as in New Orleans streetcar). Click here to see the image, and then you can go channel the Red Queen in cryogenics if she can break away from […]

It really doesn’t matter what happens in the debates or on the campaign trail between now and November, how much of a liar and incompetent John McCain is, how big a crooked Christianist fool Sarah Palin is, or how much more likely the average American is to support Democratic positions than Republican ones. How does […]

The Race “Card”
by Sasha
As has occured in the past, we find the common media and even everyday folks using phrases like “the race card,” as if a discussion of race in the current campaign were not a serious matter. Use of the “card” construction just pisses me off beyond belief. It is a […]

My personal blog is more than five years old. When it was in its infancy I presented a view of one of the most loathesome critters in the United States. There it is again, over on your right, the correct place for it to be. That was in the old days, when it […]

A handful of notes from the blogosphere on last night’s Democratic primaries:
Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings, pointing out that despite her embrace of the phony gas-tax holiday, Hillary lost North Carolina and won Indiana in a squeaker: “Senator Clinton gambled on the stupidity of the voters, and she lost. That is truly worth celebrating.” Hilzoy also […]

In Brazil for a couple of weeks, a nation where religion does not infiltrate retail politics. I am watching CNN, where Hillary is getting the Torquemada treatment from a crew of media trained whitebread fundamentalist Christian cuthroats. An event billed as the Compassion Forum… While I am no fan of the former co-president Mrs. Clinton, […]

Keith Olbermann in his inimitable style let it fly regarding the Clinton campaign. And as a (former) Clinton supporter, I share his outrage and can’t disagree with a word he said. For those who have read my posts over the years, one of the common threads is my absolute contempt for the Democratic […]

The smear of Barack Obama begins even before he’s nailed the nomination. Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama’s church, is now the target of an IRS investigation, generated by concerns that Obama used the church for political purposes. Oh Please. After Falwell and the good Doc Dobson have skewered Dems from the pulpit for more […]

 
Is this really Krugman’s “cult of personality” guy? No wonder Team Clinton sez it wasn’t supposed to be a smear. Seven months is a long time for Barack to lead in the backstretch