Undercover Blue

Secret agencies like their secrets secret. Even old secrets. The Boston Globe reported Sunday that “roadblocks” and “turf battles” among g...

Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake had a dustup a few weeks ago with Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) over an amendment to H.R. 3200 that Eshoo sponsored...

The Beltway cognoscenti keep telling us that a bipartisan solution to health care reform is what the public wants. Just what public is it th...

We received this second attack flyer on Saturday, just in time for Tuesday's local elections. Both candidates won handily .

The congressman’s staffer said her goodbyes and left the service desk. The cashier, pleasant-looking and about fifty, had listened to the he...

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 ...

WNC Blogapalooza 4.0 Mountain XPress handles the voting here .

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...