Undercover Blue

[It's been nearly a sixty hour week and little time for blogging, so an entry from the archives.] Column first appeared in the Asheville...

An interview yesterday on Terry Gross' Fresh Air illustrated the conflict between progressives and old-guard Democrat apparatchiks. Joh...

Matt. 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. From the Los Angeles Tim...

(with a slow wave of his hand) You don’t need to jail corporate executives We aren’t the criminals you’re looking for Greed is a catalyst fo...

I have just finished reading Rev. Jim Wallis' God's Politics and it has been an inspiration. It's hard for many to find hope in...

Paul Krugman's column today in the Times points up how challenging it is to deal with adveraries when "the other side doesn't ...

(updated below) Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) was just on Meet the Press discussing the illegal immigration issue, the latest "crisis...

Two complementary posts today about American tribal identities and how "identity politics" trumps issues for most Americans. Chris...

This morning the New York Times' Frank Rich jazzed on The Da Vinci Code and its owners, Sony Corporation, for conning religious conser...

Surfed over to Digby's site this evening and found a lively debate on whether (should they win back one or more branches of Congress th...

Lance at BlueNC has begun reading up on the the problem of the uninsured in America , gleaning things he'll be "quoting at cocktai...

Intelligence historian Matthew Aid in Salon : The fact that the federal government has my phone records scares the living daylights out of m...

Olmstead v. United States (1928), the landmark government wiretapping case. Roy Olmstead and his associates ran a liquor business during th...

This administration didn't swear oaths to the Unified Executive Theory. They swore oaths -- and promptly forgot them -- to preserve, pro...

Chapter IV -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THAT THE AMERICANS COMBAT THE EFFECTS OF INDIVID...

(updated below) Matthew Yglesias at The American Prospect puts the USA Today piece in its broader perspective: FUN WITH SURVEILLANCE. Turn...

Even before the Justice Department used the " state secret privilege " to kill off the class action lawsuit against AT&T ov...

Spent the weekend immersed in politics. Met Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas at a book signing for "Crashing the Gate" in As...

Finished reading Kos' book, Crashing the Gate over the weekend. Was struck by how hard he hits single-issue groups. It's a reprise ...