In the past two days, Huffington Post blogs by Roger Hickey of the Campaign For America's Future and Gerald McEntee of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union have proclaimed the creation of "Health Care for America Now!", a new coalition to fight for universal...

When Barack Obama was on The Daily Show recently, Jon Stewart ended the program with the question, "I wonder when he'll break our hearts?" The answer should not come as a surprise to any mature progressive -- soon. With Obama's announced intention to vote for the FISA bill which will...

"Take this down," said Shaq. "My name is Shaquille O'Neal and Paul Pierce is the motherfucking truth. Quote me on that and don't take nothing out. I knew he could play, but I didn't know he could play like this. Paul Pierce is the truth."

Kobe Bryant may be...

Those of us who have not supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Race (I was initially for John Edwards and now for Barack Obama) and even criticized many of Hillary's campaign tactics (as I have blogged on HuffPost) must now give Hillary her props both for an eloquent and gracious...

Dear Uncommitted Superdelegates:

Time's Up. Game Over. Point, Set, Match.

You may have hoped that you could wait to commit until you could simply ratify a majority already in place and thus avoid pissing off the Clintons or their supporters among your constituents. It's now too late for that. If...

"Never say you're sorry" seems to be Hillary Clinton's motto.

She has still not apologized for voting to give George Bush the authority to go to war in Iraq. I'm not sure what's of more concern--If she voted for the Iraq War resolution honestly because she trusted George Bush to...

The Bush/McCain statements of recent days that negotiating with America's adversaries is naïve, irresponsible, and constitutes "appeasement" is, well, naïve and irresponsible. Refusing to speak with the enemy flies in the face of the bipartisan policies of generations of American presidents--Republicans and Democrats--including such great "appeasers" as Franklin D. Roosevelt,...

Absent a sudden revelation that Barack Obama is the illegitimate child of Fidel Castro, brainwashed in Cuba and sent to Hawaii to grow up to be President of the United States and stage a communist coup, it's now all but certain that Barack Obama is the Democratic presidential nominee.

It's...

Hillary has stuck her political finger in the wind and discovered that 2008 is a good political year to find her inner populist and lash out rhetorically against oil companies, defense contractors, and health insurers who have benefited from nearly 8 years of Republican corporate welfare. Her rhetoric has rightfully...

For four days now Barack Obama has stood all but alone, valiantly defending himself against charges of elitism from multi-millionaires Bill and Hillary Clinton and dozens of their surrogates, untold numbers of Republicans, and the bulk of the media.

Where has the leadership of the Democratic Party been during these...

If you want to figure out the truth about the Clinton Campaign, you have to look beneath the surface.

The recent headline in The Huffington Post reading "Mark Penn Resigns From Clinton Camp" doesn't tell the whole tale, which is revealed farther down in the story. Penn has given up...

Following is the text of my speech at the Take Back America Conference panel on "The Single Payer Health Care Movement and the Plans of the Democratic Presidential Nominee." I was honored to be on the panel with Courtney Farr of the California Nurses Association and Congressman John Conyers, Chairman...

Watching Eliot Spitzer's press conference while his helpless wife looked on, one can't help but ask why powerful men all too often engage in reckless activity that can destroy their lives, their families, their reputations, and their political accomplishments. In the end, Bill Clinton gave one answer: "Because I could".

Hillary Clinton and her top surrogates, including Communications Director Howard Wolfson, have been very busy recently demanding the resignation of Barack Obama's policy advisors.

So you can only imagine what Clinton, Wolfson, and Clinton's other surrogates would be saying if a top Obama advisor were quoted as stating that presumptive...

On September 7, 2004 Dick Cheney summed up the Republican campaign against John Kerry, warning a crowd in Des Moines, "It is absolutely essential that...on November 2 we make the right choice because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll be hit again and we'll...

With 97% of the vote counted in Wisconsin, John McCain defeated Mike Huckabee 219,652 to 147,742.

Meanwhile Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton 635,693 to 444,604.

In other words, in winning the Republican primary in Wisconsin, John McCain received less than half of the votes that Hillary Clinton won in losing...

Last weekend I wrote a blog on the Huffington Post warning that if either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton win the most elected delegates in the primaries/caucuses, but the unelected Superdelegates veto the will of the voters and nominate the candidate with fewer elected delegates, it could split the Democratic...

There now seems to be a strong possibility that neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama will emerge at the end of the primary season with enough elected delegates to gain the nomination at the Democratic Convention. The nomination would then go to the candidate who can garner the most Super...

Picture this: It's January 20, 2009 and John McCain is being sworn in as president, promising in his inaugural address to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and keep American troops in Iraq for 100 years. If you're a Democratic voter on Super Tuesday, you must vote for the candidate...

In this ongoing multipart Huffpo series entitled "Why Not Single Payer?" I've written extensively about why Single Payer/Medicare For All represents both better social policy and better political strategy than the healthcare plans advanced by the leading Democratic candidates, including both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (whom I enthusiastically support...