Little Milton on NightMusic performing The Blues Are Alright, with Robben Ford, Marcus Miller, Omar Hakim, and David Sanborn.

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Back Door Slam were special guests of The Who at the Peel Bay Festival at the Isle of Man, May 30, 2007, and wowed the crowd with their original song Gotta Leave.

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It's become apparent that the Bush administration, since the defeat last year of immigration-reform legislation, has completely capitulated to the GOP's rising nativist element. The result has been a harsh series of raids that have had the effect of terrorizing the Latino community.

Marcy is on vacation, so I'm carrying the pixie dust ball a few meters down the field towards the goal line until she gets home. It seems there are even more secret memos........

On the same day that $100 million-plus heiress/candidate spouse Cindy McCain says, "How about never? Is never a good time for you?" with regard to when she'll release her tax returns, the Associated Press profiles the most fearsome financial powerhouse of the 2008 election: Barack Obama's army of small donors.

Rod Parsley is one of the biggest hucksters on the fundamentalist fringe, widely credited with swinging Ohio for Bush in 2004 so it's no surprise John McCain is hugging him so furiously. What is surprising is that given our elite media's newfound fascination with the spiritual advisors of Presidential candidates, that nobody is looking into what a wack job Parsley is.

At a time when progressives are calling for unity so that we can get on to the business of ending this mad era of the Bush administration, Sen. Hillary Clinton has unfortunately taken a step in the opposite direction. Her interview with USA Today, in which she presents herself as the candidate with the "broader base" because Sen.

Rep. Vito Fossella (R-NY) is probably nostalgic for last Thursday when the worst thing he and his campaign had to deal with was his arrest for driving very, very drunk. His life has gotten way more complicated since then.

Good news. Just found out author Jared Bernstein can join us for a short time. Help me welcome Jared, a progressive economist at the Economic Policy Institute here in Washington, D.C. Jared can discuss anything from "guns vs. butter," to "how the capitalists killed capitalism"—and make it understandable. Economics is scary.

I get that Sen. John McCain thinks I have too cushy a deal with my health insurance. What I don't get is how all of McCain's free-market fundamentalism on health care is supposed to help make sure my neighborhood hospital is up and running when I need it.