Undercover Blue

Trying to get back into a groove, post-election. Here are some proposed rules for Progressive Realpolitik from Chris Bowers: 1. The Democra...

(This piece first appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times on October 22, 2006.) If they had voted away the right to bear arms, we’d have ha...

Disgraced former Representative Mark Foley (R-FL) has come out as a gay alcoholic after it was revealed he sent sexually explicit Instant Me...

Former president Bill Clinton got right back into Chris Wallace's face on Fox News Sunday , making Wallace look like the Maxell tape dud...

Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster): What about those of us who knew better? We who knew the words were lies and worse than lies? Why did we sit ...

"'Conservative' is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives' good graces. Until they aren't. A...

(cross-posted from Daily Kos ) The Bush administration wants to make sure we never forget the lessons of 9/11. Because God forbid terrorists...

AMERICABlog brings us the messages of 9/11: The lessons of September 11 by John in DC - 9/11/2006 01:31:00 PM The Constitution only applies...

(This piece first appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times on September 8, 2006.) The America I grew up in was a superpower, not because of ...

From yesterday's presidential news conference , re: Iraq: Q: A quick follow-up. A lot of the consequences you mention for pulling out se...

Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter wrote in his 2004 What We've Lost that Americans 'are more divided than at any time since the Ci...

More often than not I find the New York Times' Thomas Friedman too fond of his own ideas to take seriously. Yesterday on Meet the Press ...

There is a variant of the prosperity gospel known colloquially as "Name It and Claim It" Christianity. It teaches that the Bible ...

(This piece appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times on July 11, 2006.) It’s time again for the GOP’s sales team to re-shoe its warhorses, a...

“Bush Is Not Incompetent” is a June 26 web post on George Lakoff’s Rockridge Institute site. Instead of explaining Republican failures as p...

Al Qaeda's "worst of the worst" do not deserve Geneva Convention protections. The "worst of the worst" are held in G...

I love getting these "pass it on" e-mails that go around on the Net. They come almost invariably from the right wing and are frequ...

Busy reading this morning, catching up on the outrage and calls for the imprisonment and/or death in the gas chamber of newsmen over the ...

It has been obvious to me for some time that the further right and the further left one goes in the political spectrum, the more alike conse...

At the North Carolina Democratic state convention today, the platform approval process was contentious as usual, with several last-minute ad...