STEPHEN FOSTER: "Beautiful Child of Song"That unique mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani (1933-1989) sings, and frequent collaborator Gil Kalish accompanies, this haunting Foster song, from their Nonesuch CD Songs of America.by KenThis is a somewhat unusual pr... »
Raul & Wenona, 2 champions of working familiesBreaking yet another promise to stay neutral in active primaries, the DCCC came lumbering into AZ-1 this week, in favor of conservative loser Ann Kirkpatrick who lost her seat in 2010 because Democrats stay... »
Last cycle we talked a lot about how the DCCC adamantly refused to even recognize the campaign against John Boehner by a valiant young progressive Democratic veteran, Justin Coussoule. They would go out of their way to invite every Democrat running for... »
If you've been reading this blog lately you probably have come to the conclusion that we were more than a little obsessed with defeating corrupt Blue Dog Tim Holden in northeast Pennsylvania, where I used to live. Holden was gerrymandered into the dist... »
It was more true when I was living in Europe, but even here, "student rates" were always a great deal for struggling students-- especially for getting into museums, public transportation, cinemas... But, like with so many good things, the conservatives... »
Today Disney is releasing Chimpanzee, Earth Day. Yesterday we asked some of the Blue America candidates to tell us what Earth Day means to them. Let me pick that up with a short post from Ken Aden, who's running in a pretty red-leaning district in nort... »
Before the great mortgage collapse that plunged the U.S. and most of the rest of the world into the Great Recession the banksters, according to the L.A. Times, knew they were playing with fire. Jim Puzzanghera and Scott Reckard reported exactly two yea... »
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that Wall Street is so discomforted by-- and that their conservative allies in both parties are trying to destroy-- is flawed and imperfect in many aspects. Conservative Democrats threatened... »
Last week Ronnie Cummins kept sounding the alarm about how a for-profit corporation-- and we're talking about Monsanto here-- can use its political influence and economic clout to force through dangerous food policies that could ruin the health of a na... »
Because gerrymandering has given the vast majority of House Republicans deeply red districts where they're more worried about Teabaggers, fascists and deranged Hate Talk Radio fans (or some combination of the 3) challenging them from the right than of ... »
I knew Florida state Rep Scott Randolph's name because he was Alan Grayson's campaign manager. Grayson told me "he was the mastermind behind our 2008 victory." But the last time-- before this week-- he was in the national spotlight was in March of 2011... »
Some say Romney wants someone less controversial and less tarred by the GOP effort to end Medicare and prosecute the vicious class war they've been waging against working families-- some nebbish like Rob Portman or Mitch Daniels-- both architects of th... »
John Amato was so ahead of his time to call his blog "Crooks and Liars." How can you cover conservatism without conjuring that up. Lately, astounded by Romney's unfettered alacrity at it, we've all had the "liars" part front and center. Last week Tim N... »
The 15 second web-ad above makes the point that reactionary Blue Dog Tim Holden of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania isn't really a Democrat. In past years-- when Holden's 17th congressional district meandered south and west from Schuylkill-- into solid ... »
Bob Scheer isn't looking any more forward to voting for conservative Democrat Barack Obama than I am. We both live in California, so neither of us presumably has to-- as we would if we lived in swing states like Florida, Ohio, Nevada or Iowa-- and I pl... »
