The San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing occurred on February 16, 1970, when a pipe bomb filled with shrapnel detonated on the ledge of a window at the San Francisco Police Department's Golden Gate Park station. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Investigators in the early '7...

Our digest and commentary on today's Florida political news and punditry follows. Charlie goes with a Dem Justice ... wingers furious "Crist made a Central Florida circuit judge the Florida Supreme Court's fourth-ever black justice on Wednesday, disappointing conservatives seeking to tilt th...

After the Senate's 24 hour debate on voter suppression legislation, its important to put a face on the people this unnecessary legislation will affect. The Fort Worth Star Telegram talked with Bessie Jenkins Foster, a 98-year-old African-American woman, who is recovering from gallbladder surgery and...

No matter what standard one might use to measure the extent of the current financial crisis, all the results confirm what the average consumer has known for a long time -- we are in hard times and they are getting more difficult. An article in The Economist insists that "the integration of the ...

MARCH 12, 2009 Sign up to get the morning briefing by email here. ———————————————————————- FIFTY DAYS INTO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION Consider one little factoid: H...

One of the prices that the Democrats pay for having conservative chairmen of important committees is that it makes it even harder to accomplish progressive reforms. It's a problem that Max Baucus (D-MT) is the chair of the all-powerful Finance Committee, and it's a problem that Kent Conrad (D-ND) is...

Younger, Cell Phone-Only Households Listen to Lots More Radio: Nielsen Media Buyer Planner, MD“The findings from the Nielsen pilot underscore the urgent need to include cell-phone-only homes in radio ratings.â€� Clear Channel president and CEO John Hogan made a dig at Arbitron, Nielsen’s co...

And so Washington State is going to be the next "Prop 8" battleground, it looks like.  And we didn't even get to get married first! On Tuesday night, our State Senate approved legislation that would give us, gay couples, all the exact same rights and responsibilites that the Stat...

Yesterday, the Huffington Post was first with the news that Sen. Ben Nelson is opposing the just-introduced Employee Free Choice Act, on which the American labor movement appears to be banking its entire future.  Specifically, they reported: Ben Nelson will once again be playing a key role in S...

Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...