May 6, 2010
David Obey
David Obey plays a mean harmonica. I know that because we traveled to Ireland once as part of a CODEL, and one night, as we had a few pints in a Dublin pub, he pulled out his instrument and played...
May 5, 2010
The Rope
It was Lenin who said: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” A Washington corollary might be: “The Capitalists will give us the campaign contributions from which we will hang them.” The headline in...
May 4, 2010
Assault on The Primary System
In the early 20th century, in an effort to return power to the people, progressive politicians like Robert La Follette pushed hard to reform the political system by insisting that states use a primary process. Primary elections would take power...
May 3, 2010
Prom Weekend
It was an interesting weekend in Washington D.C. As an oil slick approached oyster beds off of New Orleans, a car bomber missed in Times Square, the water shut off in Boston, and as thousands of friends of illegal immigrants...