So last week the Thune Amendment was thankfully defeated. A group I work with, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, took on the task of defeating this inane legislation, which only had a chance of passing due to the extremism of the NRA/Birther crowd and the ever-present cowardice of the usual...

Here go the steadfast and dripping-with-integrity GOP and Blue Dog Dems once again. Tomorrow at noon, we get the Thune Amendment -- as in John Thune from South Dakota -- which assaults both the federalism they cherish in rhetoric and the common sense we cherish post-Enlightenment. The Thune Amendment would...

Conservative ideologue, Republican strategist and obsessed slayer of any and all taxes large and small, Grover Norquist, once referred to bipartisanship - in his trademark subtle manner - as "date rape". While I personally don't subscribe to that line of thinking, it would be best for the Obama administration...

Hello from the great state of Ohio, where we heaved that Bush monkey off our backs and helped elect President Barack Obama, took over the state house with a progressive slate of candidates and elected two more Democrats to Congress.

Make that three, if you're willing to...

What times we live in. Not only do we have the opportunity to send the petulant, preening and pompous John McCain back to Arizona so we can then take his Senate seat in 2010. But another race with almost as consequential national implications will take place this election day.

It...

As you know, John McCain is just horrified by those "celebrity" women, you know the ones who are often scantily clad and just happen to show up in his ads with Senator Obama.

So it struck me as a bit strange that John McCain would now want his wife to...

No, not my book (one can dream though), but a new video by Brave New Films (full disclosure: I used to work there) that does in video form what I hope my book The Real McCain accomplishes in prose--laying bare the fallacy of the "straight-talk" label that...

A new website (firethelobbyists.com) has been created by the pro-campaign finance reform organization Campaign Money Watch, to convince Senator McCain to fire three lobbyists in the top levels of his organization that have lobbied for ruthless dictators. You may recall that over the past two days, two...

As many of you have no doubt seen, the straight-talking reformer had the following to say about Arianna, after she exposed yet another bit of hypocrisy about a man who at this point might join Karl Rove in smearing hiw own daughter if he thought it would win him...

Roger Hickey has a great post at ourfuture.org on the "dangerous fraud" that is John McCain's healthcare plan. As I point out ad nauseam in The Real McCain, McCain's positions are not simply fraudulent. The "straight-talker" rarely limits himself to simple dishonesty.

First, read the email The McCain...

One would have to strain to be shocked that a racist ad is finding its way out of the bowels of conservativism in North Carolina. For political observers from the 1980s and 1990s will remember that Senator Jesse Helms was a master of using divisive tactics inject race into...

Many have already pored over the ins and outs of a Democratic debate tailor-made for "Enquiring minds" earlier this week on ABC. Well guess who just happens to be coming to dinner...or This Week, this weekend?

Why none other than John McCain!

So in the spirit of seeing...

The Week That Was 4/11/2008

Another week. More preposterousness to report.

So I wrote a book. You know, because I had nothing better to do for those nine months. And because John McCain is more dangerous than Mel Gibson at a bris.

So, in any case, here...

Apparently some of the straight-talk released from The Real McCain yesterday got Rambo a bit peeved. So I'm glad I'm nowhere in his vicinity, because we know what happens to people when McCain gets a bit peeved at them.

He responded to the factual piece in my book...

Well, what do you know? Somewhere in between the unctious mass media religious ceremonies held on air in his honor we have actually caught ourselves a glimpse of The Real McCain. Not the "maverick," or the "straight talker" or the man of more integrity than Superman + Batman +...

Who represents the politics of hope? And who is the nope?

A hint: One guy is inspirational and the other is like 147 years old (and apparently--according to Academy Award hopeful Chuck Norris--each year is worth like 4 for men of war like himself [Mission Impossible 3] and the...

Yesterday turned out to be a fantastic day. So many times we've watched as our so-called leaders have done anything but lead. We've been left in shock wondering how they can still be cowed by a a pathetic excuse for a man who has a 24% approval rating...

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit." So said fictional character Gordon Gekko, the embodiment of a 1980s corporate...

A steady diet of cough syrup and falafels apparently can can do that to you.

During his Letters segment the other night, Billo read a nice email from another well-informed Fox viewer, this time from Ireland, who was just all broken up about being "forced" to watch

This is the sad state of our corporate-owned media. Katie Couric now admits she felt "corporate pressure" to ease off of Condi Rice and the Bush administration overall after a "tough interview" she conducted with the former:

After the interview, Couric said she received an email from an NBC...