Jonathan Alter does a service to all voters in a recent piece in Newsweek by doing what I wish more journalists did: holding politicians accountable.

Some readers told me at the time that this was naive–that the president, if not indifferent to the problems of black people, as the singer Kanye West charged, was not going […]

Thanks to our guest, Professor john a. powell. The two websites he referenced are the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and National Alliance to Restore Opportunity to the Gulf Coast and Displaced Persons.
“Just When You Thought You’d Seen Everything: Hoekstra’s Hoax”, By Ray McGovern (Truthout.org) McGovern writes about “Recognizing Iran as […]

Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) is one of many Republicans who, in fighting to retain their tenuous hold on incumbency, have adapted to win precisely by cutting and running, completely abandoning strong advocacy for the war in Iraq. Interesting that Shays is employing this strategy in the very state where Ned Lamont recently bested Joe Lieberman in […]

Ann Coulter, the committee fins you unmutual!

From the Nashville Post:
Shirley Ward, president of the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women, has turned herself in to authorities and has been arrested on charges of voter fraud by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, according to department spokesperson Jennifer Johnson.
Ward, a Tipton County resident, has been charged with knowingly voting in the wrong district for […]

Kleinfelter…er, uh,…I mean, KleinHEIDER over at VolunteerVoters.com is worried about our MIA Governor. He writes:
If the Governor is so in command of his faculties, if the tests are routine, why could the Gov. himself not do the phone interview? Why was the media not told that the Governor was returning to the state until he […]

It’s the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which has been covered in achingly emotional detail by

More likely, he just reads conservative blogs, but he also responds to them. In this case, he asserts his intention to continue to seek passage of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (S. 2590), which would, on its face, do quite a bit to improve transparency (and, one would hope, by extension, accountability) of […]

If Allen is to start whining about anything, it would have its origins in the fact that clever people who don’t care for him or his politics outmaneuvered him politically. That the opposition has finally figured out a way to manipulate the media for its gains is something Allen should take pride in since its his party that has helped drive the media to its current sorry state.