Join us as we chat with Demos fellow and author Rich Benjamin about his book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.

When Robin De Haven saw a small plane heading for a building in Austin, he sprang to action. The Army veteran was on his way to replace windows on his job when he changed course and helped rescue five people from the burning building. Dehaven joins the ranks of other Union Member Heroes who answer the call of duty when disaster strikes, including Captain Sully and the crew of the Maersk Alabama.

The “60 vote” bar on the public option was always a sham. But now that it’s gone, nobody wants to be Joe Lieberman and play the role of spoiler so PhRMA can have their deal.

Friday afternoon, the FBI released a number of documents in closing the case dubbed “Amerithrax”. Substantial flaws still remain in the FBI’s explanation of the technical analysis on which they concluded that Bruce Ivins was the sole perpetrator of the anthrax attacks of 2001.

The Roman Catholic Church’s purity police have been hard at work this week, eliminating the church’s relationship to a hospital in Bend OR and a foster care program in DC. Given what Jesus had to say to a lawyer about those who put purity ahead of providing health care to those in need, and about the need to stand with “the least of these,” I’m not sure that’s a good idea.

According to Rahm stenographer, Dana Milbank, all of the principled, popular measures Obama ran on made the Admininstration bills less popular, while all the shady, corrupt backroom deals everyone hates made the bills more popular; therefore, Obama should follow Rahm’s advice and do more shady corrupt deals with the people who ran the country into the ground.

All progressives including middle-aged women need to understand a few fundamentals before they make their first run for office in Indiana. Or any other state, for that matter.

White skin = valid motive = “frustrated” citizen (per Scott Brown).
Dark skin = no valid motive = waterboard the guy (per Scott Brown).

Does anyone know of any good spots to see in San Francisco?

Featuring new videos from Pato Banton and The Now Generation and The Punch Brothers.