The Party of Franklin Roosevelt is, as usual, as brave as he is dead.

Featuring a new video from Frank Turner and a recent release from Buffy Sainte-Marie.

I’ve mentioned before that I don’t really attend “progressive events” because really nice people suffering from advanced stages of extreme sincerity make me itchy.

The Banana Republican tradition is raising its ugly head in this country, while not too far south of us the rest of the continent is shaking it off.

White Greens MIA in battle to keep Van Jones.

When the Obama administration decided to toss Van Jones to the Beck crazies, they also tossed the hopes of so many young people who Jones has inspired and mentored to work to build a better way.

Daniel Levin, when he testified before HJC last year, said he did not speak with David Addington–or anyone else at OVP–during the drafting of his 2004 torture memo. He seems to have been the only torture memo author who did not communicate directly with Addington during the drafting of the memo.

In October 08 I had the great good fortune to attend what was billed as a debate between teams of progressive and conservative talk show hosts: Thom Hartmann and Stephanie Miller on the left, Bill Handel and Alan Stock on the right. Bill Handel opened the program by saying we shouldn’t expect too much from him, as he had already decided he was voting for Obama. It was left to Alan Stock to spout the right wing talking points we had all expected to hear, which he reliably did.