Liberal Talk Radio

At the risk of being labeled a Lionel-Industrial Complex Zombie, here’s a neat concept in the world of next-gen mass transit. Monobeam is a technology where the rail car rides on the side of the rail, instead of on top (as in a traditional monorail). The plans for the Seattle Monorail Green Line called for [...]

The woman who counted Bush’s votes in Florida in 2000 and suddenly went on to be one of the GOP’s top fund-raiser speakers is in the Senate race to win it. Two things stand out: 1. Her personal fortune. She’s spending $10M of her own money (from an inheritance) to win. I didn’t know she [...]

That’s Chris Matthews, on the air weeks after the Iraq invasion in 2003. FAIR has assembled a bunch of triumphalist pundit quotes from April 2003. Read them all. The best one, though, comes from Bush apologist-in-chief Fred Barnes: “The war was the hard part. The hard part was putting together a coalition, getting 300,000 troops [...]

In a cul-de-sac slightly outside the Boston-DC corridor, Connecticut officials are contemplating commuter rail: Under a proposal supported by a wide range of legislators and planners and included in Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s proposed budget, a few years from now the Windsor Locks station would become a critical business hub linking the airport to a [...]

One of the most important pre-war pieces of planning for Iraq was the State Department’s Future of Iraq project. This 1,200-page document diligently assembled experts on all facets of Iraq in order to begin planning for a post-Saddam world. It cost $5 million and took over two years to develop. But since it clashed with [...]

There might be something refreshing about this, I can’t decide, but at the very least we can enjoy some fun slang — “To Proulx” or to be “Proulish” (“Proulxotic”?) is new shorthand for being an unapologetically sore loser: The people connected with Brokeback Mountain, including me, hoped that, having been nominated for eight Academy awards, [...]

From the administration that brought us “we can’t see the WMD, but we g*ddamn know they’re there and you’re a pinko commie p*ssy if you don’t believe us” comes another salvo in the escalating War o’ Words with our good buddy and pal, Iran. “Tehran has been responsible for at least some of the increasing [...]

Reading the cable TV ratings card (for no particular reason) for March 9 reveals a few interesting things. First, Fox News absolutely trounces CNN. But we knew that already (though I am sympathetic to the argument that CNN gets somewhat under-counted because its viewers are more short-term and occasional than Fox’s die-hard fans). But Fox [...]

Of course Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt recommends stockpiling food — he’s Mormon! No, seriously: In a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that Americans start storing canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly bird flu outbreak approaches [...]

We’re talking 2006 Elections with Steve Benen of The Carpetbagger Report. Plus: Duke Cunningham’s bribe menu, The Professor’s trip to Mexico, and what looks like the endgame of the Dubai ports issue. Listen Now