A New Kind of Pride By Eugene Robinson Whoever wins this election, I understand what Barack Obama meant when he said his faith in the American people had been "vindicated" by his campaign’s success. I understand what Michelle Obama meant, months ago, when she said she was "proud of my country" for the first time […]
After a wave of ‘nerves,’ I drove to the grocery store and searched for those things wives put on grocery lists to torture husbands – pomegranate juice, septic tank treatment, olive and pimento pieces. I voted weeks ago, but I drove by my polling place just to take a look. There was a full parking […]
In the blogosphere, I first encountered the term, "Main Stream Media" [MSM]. While it literally meant the news media – press, radio, and television – it was being used as a negative – something like "the 4th establishment that is letting us down by not reporting the abuses of the Bush Administration." The right wing […]
I had a quiet day – a follow-up doctors appointment, brunch with a friend, a catch-up nap, sat on the porch with a friend/neighbor. It’s full-color Fall here in the Georgia Mountains, breath-talking. Cool in the mornings. Balmy through the day. And for some reason, the election anxiety that has gripped me for longer than […]
Limbaugh mocked Obama’s final visit with grandmother Nova M radio talk show host Randi Rhodes slammed Rush Limbaugh for suggesting Barack Obama’s last trip to Hawaii to visit his dying grandmother actually was because Obama’s birth certificate was illegitimate, and not because of her rapidly failing health. Obama’s grandmother on Nov. 3, one day before […]
Dole’s competitor for Senate files suit over ‘godless’ claim Democrat Kay Hagan filed a defamation suit Thursday against Sen. Elizabeth Dole’s re-election campaign, saying her opponent for a Senate seat from North Carolina inaccurately accused her of having ties to an atheist political action committee. "A leader of the Godless Americans PAC recently held […]
Statement from Barack Obama and Maya Soetoro-Ng on the Death of Their Grandmother It is with great sadness that we announce that our grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died peacefully after a battle with cancer. She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength, and humility. She was the person who […]
Tomorrow by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Perspective A thing is about to happen which has not happened since the Elder Days. – J.R.R. Tolkien It has been a long and terrible time since tomorrow mattered as much as it does today. It began with that first terrible […]
The Republican Rump By PAUL KRUGMAN Maybe the polls are wrong, and John McCain is about to pull off the biggest election upset in American history. But right now the Democrats seem poised both to win the White House and to greatly expand their majorities in both houses of Congress. Most of the post-election discussion […]