Liberal Talk Radio

Every once in a while, there are glimmers of hope for American democracy.
I’ve been complaining for the last few weeks to anyone who will listen that the increase from 5 Best Picture Nominees to 10 is a bad move, because it will increase the randomness — for lack of a better word — of the [...]

Following up on my own post from yesterday, here’re my quick thoughts on the President’s State of the Union address last night.

In general, I thought the speech was solid — rhetorically, not a masterpiece, but it accomplished what it needed to.  I was most impressed by the President’s solid instinct to generally avoid the rhetorical [...]

Nate Silver puts Martha Coakley’s chances at winning today at about 25%.
We’re well past the point where we can deny that access to basic health care is a basic human right in an industrialized country. Further, the failure to pass health care reform will demonstrate the extent to which our country is [...]

I’m still a bit shattered by the results of the mayoral race.  Nickels was a sophisticated, cosmopolitan leader who understood growth and what that means for Seattle.  Was he perfect?  Not at all.
Nonetheless, Democracy (in this case, the torch’n’pitchfork “any bum but this one” variety) works its magic, and we’ll have a new mayor come [...]

When we four humble bloggers are on the verge of retirement* in 30-40 years, will the conventional wisdom regarding national elections be “well, Governor Smith has a lot of neat ideas, but we must keep in mind that the American electorate hasn’t elected a governor to the presidency since George W. Bush in 2000?”
*Yeah, I [...]

Further proof that Americans did the right thing on November 4 comes from the most recent Al-Qaida vid.  Master of the Caveman-in-Chief’s privy chamber calls Obama names (and not nice ones):
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri .,.. called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.”
Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri [...]

Look who just took himself out of the race in 2012.  Mitt Romney writes:
Detroit needs a turnaround, not a check.
Actually, the title of piece says it all –
Let Detroit Go Bankrupt
If this weren’t an op-ed, I might blame the editor for the attention-grabbing headline. But this must certainly be Mitt’s own work. Re: [...]

The less the world pays attention to the Alaska Senate race, the more catching up pulling ahead Mark Begich does.
Optimistic to say so this early, but shades of Tester/Webb.

Why? No Democrat can win North Carolina.

Someone is regretting that he or she failed to have the RNC logo monogrammed on everything.