From a Washington Post online chat: Spartanburg, SC: Which convention has the bigger collection of freaks? CPAC or Daily Kos? (Please be sure to factor in Rush at his current weight.) Ana Marie Cox: Having been to both, more than once (without hazard pay, even!) I can report that while the vast majo...

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...

The doofuses over at the Gawker empire are throwing temper tantrums over Obama and his support for “warrantless wiretapping.” Rights for foreign Islamofascists on foreign soil who like to behead Jews, oppress women, and brutally butcher Americans have long been a cause of the far left. F...

We've been preoccupied by chores and research, so today's digest will catch up on the news since Thursday. There's lots to post.Friday's Owatonna People's Press reports in Council: Federal money for flood projects too slow, unstable:So, the city has applied......

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...

SoapBlox is one of the more important but less heralded platforms in the progressive blogosphere’s infrastructure. Or, it was. If you visit the main SoapBlox website today, you will see this post at the very top: SoapBlox is Dead by: pacified January 07, 2009 at 08:15:46 MST It was a good ride...

Apparently not: they have chosen to betray themselves. Or at least their front-line troops have. Via Glenn Reynolds: Last week, the group’s members chose their top four priorities for the organization, winnowed down from a top-10 list culled from 50,000 suggestions. The decisions they weighed woul...

It’s been awhile since there’s been a good, old fashioned “you can’t do that in the blogosphere” controversy, but this morning Memeorandum brings us one in the form of a public rebuke to nomadic Center for American Progress (CAP) blogger Matthew Yglesias by CAP interim ...

The abused become the abusers. We know this from studying domestic violence. Those most likely to beat children are those who were beaten. Those most likely to prey on them were preyed-upon. Yet even the most gentle among us find it hard to resist this when it comes to politics. We are going through...