My interview with Akbar Ganji

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has been called a lot of names. Here’s another one for him: cheater.

It’s not surprising Steele and the Republicans are embarrassed about their party. But Steele has hit a new low (insert Munch’s “Scream” here): He’s set up an RNC fundraising page on Facebook made to look like it’s the United Steelworkers union.

It’s final exam week at my local HS and the topic of passing and failing grades is a staple at our kitchen table these days. So, a new poll showing that Americans are not too thrilled with President Obama’s handling of the economy had me in mind of whether the economic plan announced yesterday would garner a good report card grade.

That’s the question all Americans should be asking Congress as it move to provide a $1 trillion dollar bailout to the private insurance companies and their.

Why does Representative Jim Cooper suddenly need to slow the process? Why does he hate Nashville Metro Hospital?

There’s a huge run that Republicans and ConservaDems are going to make at cutting Social Security benefits. The Republicans because they’ve had a woody to undo the New Deal since it started, and ConservaDems from the Blue Dogs and New Dems (of which Himes is a member) as a way to take the heat off themselves for voting for a bunch of blank check bailouts so they can look “fiscally responsible” in 2010.

There have been persistent rumors locally — rumors referenced by Dan Feidt at Politics in Minnesota — that the Supreme Court will be handing down a ruling in the Coleman appeal sometime today. My own particular source for this allegedly got the information simply by asking a person quite close to the case.

Effective online activism is going to mean stepping out of the preexisting mold that serves to reinforce traditional power structures, and approaching politics from a new direction.

The CIA wrote an analysis piece three days after the close of the month in which they waterboarded KSM 183 times. In it, they admitted KSM was lying to them.

Obama’s pools are hanging in there, but slipping on key issues; it’s time to worry about health reform; and banking regulation looks too timid. Can Obama get mad enough to fix things?