Liberal Talk Radio

Bull Moose gets it right: “liberalism has become too reliant on the courts.” That statement is the heart and soul of this brewing neo-localist movement. We thank the courts for having the foresight to do things like de-segregate schools, but the high court has been wrong as often as it’s been right (Dred Scott). Whitman [...]

Given that we’re completely without voice in federal government I sort of expected something like this to happen sooner or later. And what a great tragedy that self-immolation is not a horrible surprise, but an expected form of self-expression. I wonder whether we will remember this man as the American Jan Palach.

From Kevin Drum: And while I can rattle off the “elevator” version of what Republicans stand for without even thinking about it (“lower taxes, family values, smaller government, and a kick-ass military”), I sure can’t do the same for Democrats. He goes on to argue that liberals are basically faltering under the weight of their [...]

And it is decidedly local. There’s a whiff of an idea floating around right now, and it concerns the future of the Democratic party. Now, I know there’s a ton of ideas out there in this regard, but I’ve seen a few rise up from independent sources, and I think it’s enough to qualify as [...]

Last week I posted about how it’s time for the Democrats to seize the mantle of outsider opposition party. Conservatives, I wrote, “don’t quite know what to do with themselves when they’re in total control of everything.” Well it looks like none other than James Carville agrees: “One possibility, he said, was to embrace a [...]

We’ve heard a lot in the past week about how so many voted their Bibles and not their pocketbooks. But as this analysis shows, the Red States by and large receive a much greater proportion of Federal handouts than they actually pay in taxes. So it looks like the Red Staters DID actually vote in [...]

Have you all seen the Republi-porn site authenticgop.com? Check it out Bush lovers – lots of stuff to stain your sheets to. Including this little ditty:

Thanks again to all who came out last Tuesday, it was a blast. For the forseeable future, our weekly radio gigs will be on hiatus. We’re looking for a better format for the show, and reshuffling things a bit to best tackle the new/old administration. This blog will continue to be updated and will likely [...]

As a number of commentators (including my partner in crime) have pointed out in recent days, we progressives are now indisputably without power in the federal government. I.e., whatever happens from now on is undeniably not our fault. Let me take a moment to jump on and this bandwagon and say stop whining, Rush and [...]

We’ve all seen the “United States of Canada and Jesusland” map that’s been making the rounds lately. Among other things, what struck me about the map is how closely it reflects cultural divisions that have been apparent in the U.S. since at least the late ’70s. I keep coming back to the Nine Nations of [...]