Video games don't encourage individuals to be violent as much as they legitimize the broader concept of violence as acceptable. That's particularly true when the military embraces that theory.
It's a good lesson not just in Colorado, but everywhere: primaries are good because they make legislators more accountable to the constituents they are supposed to represent.
Mike Brown is still a self-described conservative. But at least he was able to be honest and have an intellectually forthright discussion with me -- something refreshing in today's political era.
Though the 2006 and 2008 elections were billed as progressive movement successes, the story behind them highlights a longer-term failure.
Van Jones was one of the only people in the White House who came out of grassroots movement work and not just political/partisan hack work.
If we, as a movement, cannot stand up for a genuine progressive hero like Van Jones, then we will not be able to stand up for anything, much less major legislative initiatives.
The White House answers more to Glenn Beck than it does to the progressive base of the Democratic Party that got them into the White House in the first place.
When it comes to aiding regular people who haven't bought members of Congress, every argument -- and especially deficits -- are cited as reasons to do nothing.
Not to be too much of a downer, but I found Obama's speech tonight a big O-bummer. And remember, while I have at times been critical of Obama, I've been very supportive of him on health care...up until tonight.
Re-importation bills have been passed a few times now, each time with poison-pill trigger provisions. Each time, politicians publicly pretend this is some great victory and expect consumers to buy the charade.
The sequencing here is important: Pelosi makes her announcement and then just hours later, the fundraising invitation goes out. Coincidental? I'm guessing no -- these things rarely ever are.
We're living in a world where the behavior of right-wing lynch mobs clearly is far less about ideology, and far more about partisanship and racial hate.
Republic Airways is threatening to take jobs out of the city unless it gets new tax breaks. In response, Denver leaders like Mayor Hickenlooper have agreed to quickly put together a package of such favors.
There are numerous examples of the fetishization of bipartisanship -- but none have been as blatant as what we see today from Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson.
If President Obama really cares about the deficit, where is his effort to seriously rein in a Pentagon budget that is far more expensive than any health care plan being debated in Congress?
When progressives were fighting tooth and nail against the bailout, Beck was promoting it, offering criticism only for it not being bigger.
Readers have a right to know the political/financial interests of those writing on a site as public as the Huffington Post.
Despite flying under the radar, the Working Families Party is perhaps today's most encouraging model for achieving progressive results over the long haul.
I don't mean that Friedman is wrong on everything. I mean that he's actually an extremely dim bulb in that he displays a stunning lack of basic cognitive function.
The most significant news about Obama's democracy-crushing efforts in Pennsylvania, Colorado and New York is not what it says about his integrity, but what it says about his political priorities.
Like Barack Obama said on the campaign trail, primaries and local democracy strengthen the Democratic Party. Unfortunately, President Emanuel and Vice President Jim Messina don't subscribe to that belief.
Clinton told Taylor Branch about an interview with Rolling Stone's William Greider: "I did everything but fart in his face." The revelation about Clinton's interaction with Greider isn't groundbreaking, but it is telling.
