Undercover Blue

A friend sent me a link received in one of those multi-forwarded, zombie right-wing chain mails that spammers use for harvesting emails for ...

SC Gov. Mark Sanford doesn't know enough to quit while he's behind. He's in Newsweek with a review of some new books about the...

The health care debate – with its leaks, mixed signals and close-to-the-vest dealing – has reform supporters losing their cool while Obama, ...

At least the damage was minimal, Frank Rich suggests in this morning’s New York Times. It’s not as if the “balloon boy” fraud led the count...

FactCheck.org sent out one of its regular e-mail updates this week. They examine the “37th in the world” statistic bandied about in the hea...

Glenn Greenwald yesterday noted the hand-wringing and pearl clutching by the press over the White House calling out Fox News as an opinion ...

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A focus-group study by Democracy Corps explains that Republican base voters live in “a world apart from the rest of America.” The Tea Part...

You have seen it. The plastic bucket beside the cash register at the convenience store. A photo is taped to it. A child needs an operation. ...

The New York Times/CBS News poll out yesterday posed the following question: 57. Would you favor or oppose the government offering everyone...

Activists in the blogosphere are studying well over 500 amendments to Sen. Max Baucus’ Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill, i...

Last weekend, tens of thousands of health reform protesters prompted by Glenn Beck descended on Washington. They fear America is turning fas...

Enter the Tea Baggers, the Birthers, the Deathers, Glenn Beck, town hall shouters, guys with guns, and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). The right...

A severely anorexic friend once had her heart stop beating in church. A heart specialist at the service got her going again, but they had to...

From Steve Benen at Washington Monthly : IT'S COME TO THIS.... In 1988, then-President Reagan spoke to students nationwide via C-SPAN t...

What Digby said : This is one of the problems with health care reform, as I've mentioned before. If the economy is doing well and defici...

Maybe it is something congenital about the left. Faced with lies, propaganda and intimidation, liberals go to Google to arm themselves with ...

Today I finally looked back in on Bill Cope of Boise Weekly . A few weeks ago, I saw where Cope had ventured into the mountains to get some...

As for the argument that government is unable to pull off anything like health care successfully, Steve Benen at Washington Monthly recalle...

The descent into complete incoherence among conservatives -- especially on talk radio -- has become widespread as the health care debate int...