The newest star in the constellation that is the Republican Party emerged last night during President Barack Obama’s speech. Since the president shot a sharp glance toward the congressman who had just yelled, “You lie!” South Carolina’s Rep. Joe Wilson has become an overnight celebrity.
“You lie!” Wilson blurted out during President Barack Obama’s health care [...]

Watching the televised funeral mass for Sen. Edward M. “Teddy” Kennedy (Feb. 22, 1932 – Aug. 25, 2009) it struck me once again what a good looking family the Kennedy clan has always been and remains.
Since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, with each Kennedy death that followed, we’ve seen the family [...]

Watching the confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Justice David Souter, once again I’ve been struck with how predictable this process has gotten to be.
From AP:
While Souter was appointed by a Republican, President George H.W. Bush, he frequently sided with the court’s liberal bloc on controversial issues such as abortion [...]

You’ve probably already seen video clips of yesterday’s kerfluffle between the White House Press Corps and Press Secretary Gibbs, but just in case…

Now my question to our gentle readers here is this:  In this outburst in defense of the Fourth Estate, are we finally witnessing a split between liberals and progressives?
Some folks might argue, “What’s [...]

From a news release distributed by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, noting that the post-election protests in Iran had dominated the news early last week before the Mark Sanford story and the death of Michael Jackson began to fill the headlines and airwaves:
From the time it was announced Jackson had died through the end [...]

Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott (D-3rd) along with Mike Castle (R-Del.) introduced legislation in February that aims to curtail crime by focusing on prevention. According to The Hill’s Lauren Victoria Burke, the legislation is picking up steam:
The bill … has 204 co-sponsors, including 16 Republicans. Ninety lawmakers have backed the bill since June 1.
The bill seeks [...]

James Ridgeway of unsilentgeneration has a very good article out tonight about the state of the health care reform we were promised. It is an eye-opening look at how centrist Democrats are undermining the public option and other good parts of the original plan. The latest? Health Co-ops.
True to this spirit of bipartisanship, the co-op [...]