On this eve of more destruction we have Hot Buttered Rum’s – Guns or Butter.

Are you blue as a mandrill’s buttocks because you missed the chance on Friday to grab that 60″ flat screen TV on sale at Mallwart for the kids’ playroom? Bummed because your neighbors finally encrytped their broadband router and you couldn’t snag all those Cyber Monday bargains offered online today? Do you even know the [...]

Peter’s argument is cleverer than it is wise.

This is the final entry in a four-part series covering Rhode Island’s Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s keynote address at the recent Brennan Center for Justice’s Second Annual “Living Constitution” event.

I believe that every major and minor world culture exists as we know it today because of humanity’s myriad and varied concepts of God, reacting to and against prevailing norms in belief systems. Art, architecture, law, literature, music, philosophy, wars are all reactions to the Divine. Whether the group examined is a tribe in the Amazon or sophisticated city dwellers, you will see in their lives and environment the influence of beliefs. We cannot escape the affects of faith, the positive and the negative.

A new poll from Democracy Corps includes a key data point, suggesting that the Obama Administration tactic of claiming that the economy would have been worse without their actions, regardless of the truth of the statement, is a political loser. The poll, taken in 60 of the most competitive Congressional districts, shows that over half [...]

Foundations are tools the wealthy use to push their views, and as needed to confuse the debate.

The first amendment introduced on the floor of the Senate comes from Sen. Barbara Mikulski, seeking to add a provision included in the HELP Committee version of the bill. This measure would mandate coverage – for free – for various women’s preventive health procedures and screenings. This is a direct response to the controversy surrounding the US Preventive Services Task Force’s changing guidelines over mammograms.

Those advocating that everyone should stop working to pass (B), a bill with a public option, need to take responsibility for the fact that if that happens, the default at the moment is (A) a bill without a public option. It is not (C), nothing. It would be helpful to know why they think (A) is better than (B), because we’re not dealing in fantasy here, and that is the inevitable outcome in the scenario they are advancing.

The Senate officially begins debate on health care reform today at 3 pm. The floor debate will be live on C-Span 2. 3:04 – Reid calls this one of the most historic debates in Senate history. He points out the bill would reduce the deficit and expand coverage. Reid makes a point that the money [...]