No one said being POTUS would be easy, but by his 365th day as president, 34% of Donald Trump’s "A" Team staff quit, changed ro...

Many years ago when I started this Blog, I thought about what to call it. At the time, I remember thinking about Paul Wellstone as he descr...

Happy Belated New Year. After 4 years and a month of commenting on politics, progressive and otherwise, I am continuing my last year trend o...

Shirley Sherrod, the USDA employee who was summarily fired last week, as it turns out, is everything that America should embrace. She has ov...

Everyone should know by now that Barack Obama is not a Socialist, not even close--c'mon look at the definition of the word. Socialism: A...

Image via Wikipedia Dear President Obama, You promised change and you have begun to deliver on that promise. By signing the Health Care bill...

In an elegant show of reasoning and logic, President Barack Obama, with his security team in tow, spoke in front of 3400 West Point cadets ...

CNN reports that soldiers who die by suicide will not receive a letter of condolence from the President Obama. The reason for not honoring ...

Attached to the $680 billion defense authorization bill, President Obama on Wednesday signed a law that makes it a federal crime to assault ...

Massachusetts' senior Senator Ted Kennedy has lost his battle with brain cancer last night. Regardless of party stripe or perceived or r...

Unless you have been comatose, no doubt you have heard about Massachusett's Congressman Barney Frank's retorts to a woman at one of ...

According to CNN , Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota there are not enough votes in the Senate to put the public option on the tabl...

I've been taking some time away from blogging because, let's face it, problems never really go away and everyone needs a chance to c...

Apparently $11,764,705.88 per prisoner is the going rate for not allowing trials for Guantanamo prisoners to occur. Since the US Senate said...

It is hard not to praise Barack Obama for his press conference last night, particularly when you compare him to his immediate predecessor. T...

A major bone of contention between Democrats and Republicans during the last Bush Administration was what to do about NSA wire surveillance ...

It may puzzle some progressives that I have genuine sweet spot for Paul Harvey who passed away today at the age of 90. But I have good reas...

As much as I personally wanted Gov. Howard Dean to be appointed to the Secretary of health and Human Services post, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius ...

Okay, this is a cheap way to have people take a look at this video, but as a right-handed person growing up in a left-handed household, this...

After the Bush years of obfuscation, a unusually somber President Obama should receive high marks for relative candor and a high degree of c...