Ever since Rick Snyder soft-talked his way into the governorship in Michigan, throwing the doors wide open for his biggest donors, the Macki...

 So, Luke, remember your dad, Tim Russert?  Let's say he's sitting in a press room where House minority leader Nancy Pelosi is takin...

President Obama won a second term last night and it wasn't even a squeaker.  The Senate and the House stayed pretty much the same, but E...

5 AM EST. I'm up and already nervous about what this election night will bring.  I want the Democrats to win everything.  I want the Re...

Okay, I'm breathing again--raggedly, to be honest, but I'm seeing clearly and whatever fun writing I was so longing for last week w...

I had a bout with bronchial pneumonia this week, which left me breathless enough to now be able to cross "ambulance ride" off of m...

WARNING:  Cheers for Obama here, at least until Tuesday, November 6.  Don't come looking for relief from Obama luv.  You won't find ...

At the easternmost edge of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where I live, the land is low.  In the deep south it would be called the low coun...

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,...