NOTE:  This is a repeat of a blog post from October, 2010, the year the Democrats lost the edge by losing the House to the Tea Party and the...

So this is what it’s come to. After four years of invective, four years during which the right has called President Obama a traitor,...

Months before the Republican and Democratic Conventions in the summer of 2012, when politicians fell all over each other trying to out- Poor...

So yes, it has happened:  I am 75 years old today.  Don't worry, I feel fine.  I'm still the same person, but one now saddled with t...

Hello, fellow outraged citizen.  Are you as outraged as I am we are?  Have you had enough?  Are you one of those astute, sentient, ...

Connie Schultz is one of my favorite writers and it pains me that so few women know who she is or have read her masterful, often poignant co...

WARNING: It's Labor Day and I'm feeling the love for labor, so what follows will be totally biased and in no way fair or balanced.  ...

The media is abuzz about the speeches at the 2012 GOP Convention in Tampa, critiquing them on style, effectiveness, the number of laughs, th...

 I can't say for sure (because there's no definitive source that I could find), but calling Chris Matthews "Tweety" starte...

So I guess you heard what House Science Committee member Todd Akin (R-MO) said, when asked whether rape would be reason enough for aborti...