Don’t Do as the Senate Does – Act Now on Climate Change
2010 has been a year of missed opportunities for the environment. From no progress or worse on the international climate action stage, to a clean energy bill in the U.S. Senate that is still on ice...
View ArticleBig Oil's About to Go Big Money in California
Right now, California is about to get a dose of Big Oil's money as some of the biggest polluters in the country -- Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries -- see their dream of Proposition 23 go down in...
View ArticleDean Should Run
Here's why.He is untethered to Washington and all its bullshit.He has run and lost and that's invaluable. He is smart enough to have learned from that mistake.He is a Doctor. I have heard that health...
View ArticleActually, The Global Fund Got It Right On Corruption.
The headlines scream for attention and plenty of hand-wringing and I told you so's.Massive Problems With Celebrity Driven Aide; UN Investigation As Sweden Reneges.Global Disease Fund Seeks to Recover...
View ArticleOn May 12, Where Will You Be?
This morning in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg will propose a new budget for New York City. It will resemble many of the state budgets that we have seen proposed throughout the country, as...
View ArticleWelcome To On May 12th.
Today's the day. It's May 12, 2011 and enough is enough. If you are tired of watching as the banks and the people who caused our financial crisis not only get away with their crimes but get rewarded...
View ArticleHomeless Veterans Sue.
This disturbs me from today's NY TIMES. Steve Mackey, the president of the California state council of Vietnam Veterans of America, said the lawsuits were “a last resort.” “We have spent years working...
View ArticleAmy Goodman In New Bedford This Weekend.
This coming weekend, hundreds of inspiring and inspired people will come together in New Bedford, Massachusetts for the 7th Annual Connecting for Change conference. A Bioneers by the Bay Conference,...
View ArticleNow Let's Welcome Them Home.
When President Obama re-affirmed his commitment to have all the troops out of Iraq by the end of 2011, my thoughts went to two different groups of veterans and one remarkable project I was recently...
View ArticleCain Episode Shows Again - Republicans Play A Different Game.
Yesterday Dave Johnson wrote an insightful post on Smoking Politics about the Herman Cain media blow up on harassment claims. He's dead on with his analysis.But there is one thought I would add to the...
View ArticleYes It Would Have Been Amazing.
This post originally appeared on Smoking Politics.I have an uncle I love dearly, but to say he is a Republican is an understatement. But one thing he has taught me politically is how email has become...
View ArticleI Read The News Today. Oh Boy.
This post originally appeared at Smoking Politics.We often focus, and frankly understandably so, on the big deceptions the Right plays because it's hard not to notice the impact of climate change...
View ArticleBachman, Rove, Palin And The Right's Increasingly Distant Relationship With...
This post originally appeared at Smoking Politics.Steve Benen and Greg Sargent have written some pretty sharp and strong posts about Karl Rove's Crossroads group and the ads they have been running, one...
View ArticlePROP MAIL - "Parenting" The Occupy Protestors
this post originally appeared at Smoking Politics.A new email is circling from the Right, written by a woman who claims to be a parenting expert, but clearly knows very little about the economic...
View ArticlePROP MAIL: What A Coincidence. Not.
this post originally appeared at Smoking Politics. As our inbox gets regularly flooded with examples of the right propaganda email, we look forward to dissecting them and also recognizing those that do...
View Article175 Chickens in 1 Minute?!
You'd think the USDA would see the flaw of logic in letting the people who make the food inspect the food and decide if it is actually safe to eat.The USDA has decided in its infinite wisdom, despite...
View ArticleFalling in Love... with Dirt
Paul Quinn College has found a way to score big on the football field—without playing a single down.
View ArticleRe-Reading Stanley Karnow's "Vietnam" In Vietnam
I haven’t read this since either Groton or Duke. And now I am trying to re-read it before I make it down to the DMZ and before my visit to Khe Sanh next week. It’s such a good and complete history of...
View ArticleDear Max: A Letter To Max Cleland From Hill 471 Khe Sanh
Dear Max:Well, here I am, Hill 471 in Khe Sanh. I came here because I love and admire you and since I was touring Vietnam I figured what the hell, I'll head up to Khe Sanh and find Hill 471 and stand...
View ArticlePlease Meet Skull.
(picture here)Please meet Skull, Skull and I have just met ourselves but it’s been fascinating to get to know him and I think you should know him as well. I say he, as a guess, for really Skull is just...
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