Can a Polish woman find true happiness with an Irishman? A variety of opinions are expressed here.  Outrage? Frankly, I think she’s old enough to lend a hand.

Esta.    Hahahahaha!  Stupid Bush! Wha?  Who? 

…for our old friend Jason Leopold: To Our Readership and Friends, Jason Leopold is no longer employed by Truthout. Jason is a truly gifted reporter, and his efforts on behalf of Truthout have been greatly appreciated. There may be some speculation that this announcement is connected in some way to Truthout’s reporting of the Karl Rove indictment matter. It is not. At the time of our reporting on the Rove

The Associated Press misreports: The Supreme Court rejected a challenge Tuesday to the Bush administration’s domestic spying program. The bias here is blatant, insofar as the Terrorist Surveillance Program involves international communications and there is no evidence that US persons have ever been targeted by the program without a warrant. Not even Rick Ellensburg, in his usual high dudgeon over the issue, could bring himself to so badly mislabel the program.

At the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Kaufman notes the historical influence of working-class white men in American politics: Once, blue-collar males were the bedrock of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition. They became “Reagan Democrats,” helping to propel Ronald Reagan into office in the 1980s. Bill Clinton won many of them back to the Democratic Party in 1992. Two years later they were “angry white males,” resentful of affirmative action and

The Politico’s Roger “NotL” Simon reports that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign intends to go after delegates whom Sen. Barack Obama has already won in the caucuses and primaries if she needs them to win the nomination.  She can do this because the “pledged” delegates  are not really pledged, even on the first ballot. At OpenLeft, Chris Bowers notes that Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan went after each other’s delegates at

At the moment, Sen. Hillary Clinton clearly trails Sen. Barack Obama in the camaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.  But how long does she maintain a plausible path to the nomination? At OpenLeft Chris Bowers breaks out six delegate counts, arguing that unlikely that either campaign will concede as long as it leads in at least one of these six counts.  Conversely, the beginning of the end is marked when

Camp Clinton has been waiting (and complaining) for the media to start giving Sen . Barack Obama’s campaign the level of scrutiny generally trained on the front-runner. It seems like it is coming, possibly just in time to prolong Obama’s race with Sen. Hillary Clinton. Although some 150 delegates are up for grabs in Democratic contests today, yesterday’s big political story was the Obama plagarism flap.  It is not a

Joel Ferguson, a co-chairman of Hillary’s Michigan campaign, reportedly said: “Superdelegates are not second-class delegates… The real second-class delegates are the delegates that are picked in red-state caucuses that are never going to vote Democratic.” There is the typical OUTRAGE in the comments at the Politico.  Kos derides it.  TNR mocks it. However, even had it been uttered by someone higher on the Clinton flow chart, it would be at most

Claims to distinguish between “movies” and “reality”: Sharon Stone believes the Sept. 11 attacks should not have been used as a pretext for the United States to launch wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to her comments published Monday in a pan-Arab newspaper. In her interview with Al Hayat, the actress also bemoaned what she called Americans’ decision to ignore the deaths of so many Iraqis.” I feel at great