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Will the Big States Please Stand Up?

California, Illinois, Florida and New Jersey should be applauded for mobilizing to hold earlier presidential primaries.

Posted on Jan 29, 2007 16 COMMENTS


Kneeling before the 10 Commandments monument
AP / Dave Martin

Christianists on the March

The Harvard seminary graduate, veteran foreign correspondent and author of “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America”, warns that the Christian Right is the most dangerous mass movement in American history.

Posted on Jan 28, 2007 264 COMMENTS


Willie Nelson
AP Photo / Denis Poroy

Annie Nelson on the ‘Fuel That Doesn’t Kill Us’

Annie Nelson, wife of Willie Nelson and co-chairperson of the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, speaks to Truthdig about stomaching the State of the Union and the myth that alternative fuels are years away.

Posted on Jan 28, 2007 101 COMMENTS


Andy Borowitz: Bin Laden’s State of the Jihad Address Short on Specifics

The satirist reports that critics are assailing the terrorist mastermind’s annual speech as being nothing more than a vague laundry list of terror targets.

Posted on Jan 26, 2007 7 COMMENTS


Jim Webb

Truthdigger of the Week: Sen. Jim Webb

Truthdig tips its hat this week to the newly elected Democratic senator from Virginia, who delivered a blistering response to President Bush’s State of the Union address.

Posted on Jan 26, 2007 21 COMMENTS


Nigerian scam warnings
AP / Sunday Alamba

Don’t Touch That Mail!

A native Nigerian writer takes stock of the changing face of her country’s most prominent economic export after oil: e-mail scams.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 26 COMMENTS


Obama’s ‘Fresh Face’ Could Work Against Him

The baby boomers who were once suspicious of anyone over 30 are now skeptical of Barack Obama because he’s under 50.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 19 COMMENTS


A Reagan Democrat

Sen. Jim Webb replied to Bush’s State of the Union speech with a moral clarity almost unheard-of since the days of The Great Communicator.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 33 COMMENTS


Hillary’s Way

She may lack Obama’s charisma and Edwards’ poise, but Sen. Clinton has made fools of her naysayers before.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 16 COMMENTS


Yet Another Actor Acting Out

“Grey’s Anatomy’’ star Isaiah Washington’s recent meltdown was as puzzling as it was repulsive.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 12 COMMENTS


Why Bush’s Speech Didn’t Matter

None of the progressive-sounding proposals in the president’s speech stand any chance of actually arriving on Capitol Hill as legislation.

Posted on Jan 25, 2007 14 COMMENTS


George W. Bush
AP Photo / Charles Dharapak

The World Agrees: Stop Him

Stop him before he kills again. That is the judgment of the American people, and indeed of the entire world, as to the performance of our president, and no State of the Union address can erase that dismal verdict.

Posted on Jan 23, 2007 177 COMMENTS


Barack Obama
AP / Seth Wenig

Barack’s Racial Balancing Act

Sen. Obama’s multiracial heritage could help mend the great fissure in American society.

Posted on Jan 22, 2007 24 COMMENTS


Marie Cocco: Saving Their Seats, and Maybe the Country

Congressional Republicans have an opportunity to be both pragmatic and idealistic by abandoning the president on the war.

Posted on Jan 22, 2007 3 COMMENTS


Reforming Pakistan’s ‘Dens of Terror’

Pakistan’s “madrassas” have been described as “jihad universities” because of their ties to the Taliban and Islamic extremists, but a small-scale indigenous effort to reform the religious schools could be making more progress than the combined forces of the American, British and Pakistani governments.

Posted on Jan 22, 2007 6 COMMENTS


Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
AP / Evan Vucci

E.J. Dionne Jr.: The Upstart Versus the Machine

The Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton 2008 contest highlights the differences between bottom-up and top-down political campaigns.

Posted on Jan 22, 2007 11 COMMENTS


Webb
BradBlog.com

Brad Friedman: Stop Whining and Start Leading

If Congress wants to be treated like a coequal branch of government, it has to act like one, and Bush’s State of the Union address is the perfect time to start.  Pictured above, Sen. Jim Webb, who will deliver the Democratic response to the president’s speech.

Posted on Jan 20, 2007 52 COMMENTS


Andy Borowitz: Rosie-Trump Feud Advances Doomsday Clock

The satirist reports on a potential wellspring of the apocalypse.

Posted on Jan 19, 2007 4 COMMENTS


E.J. Dionne Jr.: Two Taxed Americas

John Edwards’ plan for running a higher budget deficit to pay for universal healthcare coverage has the virtue of being honest.

Posted on Jan 19, 2007 13 COMMENTS


Joe Conason: Our Iraqi Friends Befriend Our Enemies

Should the United States attack Iran, which side would the Iraqi government support? The answer to that simple question is far from clear, despite the thousands of lives and billions of dollars we have sacrificed to support the ruling coalition in Baghdad.

Posted on Jan 18, 2007 19 COMMENTS


Marie Cocco: Senators Hijack Minimum-Wage Increase

Senate Democrats and Republicans have shamelessly joined in a bipartisan effort to pad the well-off at the expense of the working poor.

Posted on Jan 18, 2007 8 COMMENTS


Ellen Goodman: Fox in the Henhouse

President Bush has done it again, appointing a doctor who opposes family planning to run the nation’s family planning program.

Posted on Jan 18, 2007 3 COMMENTS


Gustavo Dudamel
From Scott Dalton / The Los Angeles Times

Paul Cummins: We Reap What We Sow

A wildly successful Venezuelan governmental program that makes free musical instruments and training available to all children should serve as a model for the U.S. as we struggle to keep guns out of kids’ hands.

Posted on Jan 17, 2007 34 COMMENTS


Sri Lankan Tamil refugees
AP / Eranga Jayawardena

Sri Lankan Disasters, Natural and Man-Made

As the rest of Southeast Asia emerges from the ravages of the tsunami, Sri Lanka, the small island country southeast of India, further deteriorates amid a brutal, decades-long civil war. The head of an international aid agency, just back from the region, reports.

Posted on Jan 16, 2007 30 COMMENTS


Susan McDougal

Susan McDougal: The Woman Who Wouldn’t Talk

When Susan McDougal refused to implicate the Clintons in the Whitewater fiasco, she was thrown in prison, left alone with murderers and her own stubborn dignity. Savaged by Republicans and abandoned by Democrats, she would emerge from that dark chapter of American history a hero.
UPDATE: Full transcript now available.

Posted on Jan 16, 2007 85 COMMENTS


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