To try to clear up something about yesterday’s post on a Swiss model of health care reform I don’t, personally, consider something like that adequate. I don’t think it’s the appropriate role of progressives in the United States to be pushing for subsidies and mandates for ins...

Obama didn't build the greatest online political network. Howard Dean did. Obama just copied it exactly; I might add, not as well. Obama's web team was subpar compared to the Dean team. But they had the benefit of a better candidate who inspired the populace. In Obama they had a well spoken Dean. Fu...

By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet He’s been a governor, an inspiring grassroots hero, a reformer of the Democratic Party — will he join Obama’s White House or head back home? Is Howard Dean getting a raw deal? Barack Obama owes many elements of his successful run for the White House ...

The Obama Administration is supposed to be all about team. It's supposed to be about broadening the coalition, delivering a consensus, and moving forward with honesty and transparency. So why is it being run by a hack out of the Red-Blue Bush-Clinton wars? Rahm Emanuel has already proven his incompe...

Sunday am at Indy Metro I shared some concluding thoughts on our 4 month Nehemiah study that focused on a community of people so broken and weeping for a city they committed to doing whatever it took to see the restoration of a community bringing Glory to God. Throughout the entire book, we see Nehe...

A lawsuit brought against the Democratic National Committee by it's own former LGBT community outreach person has been settled out of court. It's the last chapter in a bitter battle between Donald Hichcock and the DNC that's been filled with accusations of homophobia and suggestions t...

I wonder what the O man has against Howard Dean? I don't mean to diss on the chosen one, but I really have to wonder why the good Doctor is being avoided like a black man at a FOX NEWS party. Come on O man, show the guy some love. I know what your campaign did with the Internet and modern technology...

Obama's not sworn in for another 11 days, but Rahm Emanuel is already said to be gutting one of his many hated enemies, Howard Dean. Presumably with a steak knife. Emanuel is famous for ritualistically cursing his enemies by slamming a steak knife into the dinner table. He does this constantly, with...

Having been politically active for a full generation, having covered the Internet since 1985, online politics since 1996 and having been part of the Netroots since 2003, I enter the new era with a question never asked by liberals in my lifetime: Now that we're in power what is our role? The answer t...

Pat Quinn’s moment is about to arrive – finally. Illinois’ lieutenant governor, who has toiled for decades in the less visible rungs of state politics, will ascend to the state’s top job whenever Rod Blagojevich steps down or is dragged from it. (Does anyone seriously believe that Blagojevic...