Lost in this clip from the 1958 movie "Teacher's Pet" is the class war embedded in the plot. Clark Gable (right) plays a newspaper editor who considers journalism a trade, Doris Day a journalism professor who considers it a profession. In the end Gable's boss is flattered and the two sides compromis...

The left wing has descended into asshattery to try to discredit Bobby Jindal’s story about Sheriff Harry Lee and Katrina. The left accuses Bobby of not being near New Orleans when Katrina hit and only flying over. Apparently, the left is now defining “during Katrina” as “when...

There is a natural tendency, after a great event, to try and go back into the old patterns and assume that, somehow, nothing has really happened. So it is with the Republicans and their media allies. The party of Barack Obama's inauguration is over. They assume business as usual is about to return. ...

Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. After hackers took down SoapBlox, a one-man blog-hosting company which runs local political websites, a silenced liberal commentariat found out how true that was. SoapBlox grew out of Scoop, the software used on DailyKos, Markos Moulitsas's left-of-...

From the DailyKos - Jimmy Carter believes that the “devastating invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been avoided.” Nicholas Kristof described the Boomerang Syndrome: Arab terrorism built support for right-wing Israeli politicians, who took harsh actions against Palestinians, who...

The folks who write for the Huffington Post, DailyKos and Firedoglake will never admit this, but Barack Obama did them all a big favor when he named Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inaugural. As I noted earlier, Warren's appearance will come early in the program, probably before the oath o...

Reverend Jackson, as a fellow minister of the Gospel, and as an experienced fisher of fish and human souls, might I respectfully recommend that you consider using a Catfish Cleaning Knife for the job at hand. Being that Obama is a bottom-feeder, I think you'll find that my recommended tool would be ...

Shame on us. Shame on us, progressives. At no time in history, at least not that I know of, has there been a more energized progressive movement. Yet, progressive institutions like the Rockridge Institute, our struggling (they have closed). We have to do better. All of us. I understand that we are i...

A typical liberal white male DailyKos blogger. --- "Our challenge is to get the typical rich white liberal person to pretend that he or she gives a shit about poverty in America and to act like we can make progress on poverty in America when there’s no historical evidence, of course, that rich whi...

To me, Martin Luther King represents the start of the downfall of America. He was a socialist activist that started a perverse turn to a weakened America. He used race in an attempt to manipulate government from a departure of "all men created equally" to "special interest groups are a priority" and...