Liberal Talk Radio

How can it be that a city with one of the country’s hottest housing markets is on the verge of bankruptcy?
San Diego’s city fathers committed two big mistakes, financial analysts said. First, during the go-go years of the stock market boom in the 1990s, they used the pension fund like an ATM to pay for [...]

Well, at least someone’s come up with a solution to our transportation infrastructure problems.

Looks like it went pretty darn well. December will be the real test, of course, when they vote for a full parliamentary assembly. But this is a big day, for sure.
Update: Iraq the Model says that there are no coalition forces on the streets. Just Iraqi army and police. [...]

Liberals love to misuse the word Neocon. I hear it all the time here in Seattle: “Well, you know, Bush and all the neocons just want to drill for oil in Alaska and ruin our environment!” But the truth is that neo-conservatives have little, if any, domestic policy agenda (in fact, many folks [...]

Looks like we’re going to have quite a Senate race on our hands here in ‘06. Safeco CEO Mike McGavick has raised some dough and looks to be the candidate who will take on Maria Cantwell next fall. I’m actually most surprised at how much money Cantwell has raised. Last I heard [...]

Ever wonder why every other week our Government announces it’s captured the “Number 2 man” in Al Qaeda?
Well, now you know.

I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m a fan of The West Wing. I mean, seriously, what left-of-center political blogger isn’t? Lots of folks think the show went downhill in a major way after Season 3 or so, but I have to strongly disagree. It has changed a lot — aged, for [...]

Don’t miss this post by G. John Ikenberry on TPM Cafe today. He sums up the history of “liberal internationalism” and how it came to be in the era after World War II. One point that stuck out for me is when he talks about the formation of NATO and the US-Japan alliance [...]

Why are they lowering the trackbed? Why not just raise the platform?
Is this the reason the tunnel’s closing for 2 years?

This also falls under the category of NFA.
Carpet-bombing the Smurfs. Now THAT’s hard core.
UPDATE: I was looking for this clip on iFilm and I couldn’t find it. I did, however, find this priceless video of actor Luis Guzman throwing a hissy fit on the set of an upcoming movie. What a jerk. [...]