Dear David,

You sent me an email on healthcare from the White House last month, one that went out to millions of people. Now I'm replying by sending one to you. You told me it was time for a reality check. Now I'm telling you the...

Sandy Goodman reported from Germantown, Maryland as part of HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Town Hall Watch.

Yes, Virginia, despite what you read in the mainstream media, there really ARE peaceful town meetings held by Democratic members of Congress to discuss health care reform: meetings where the vast majority...

Fellow Democrats, we face a daunting decision: what's a good Dem to do about the public option? Six months ago, I'd never heard of it. Since then, a whole bunch of Democrats, in the White House, Congress and elsewhere, have convinced me that health care reform is no good without...

Every so often, I read something that I find simply astounding. The latest is news that Yale University Press is publishing a book entitled The Cartoons That Shook The World, without putting any of those cartoons in the book.

The cartoons referred to are the dozen satiric drawings...

The latest about health care reform is that it's going to kill your grandma. At least that's what Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Charles Grassley and a whole bunch of right wing broadcasters and bloggers are telling us. And a lot of people - including a lot of older people -...

Amid the welter of depressing news about the Great Recession, the Taliban's successes in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a new rash of bombings in Iraq, there is a single bright spot.

Congress has overwhelmingly passed, and the president has signed into law a bill permitting the carrying of loaded...

I think I have the answer to why Dick Cheney has emerged from all those undisclosed locations he used to hide in as vice president to loudly defend his lawbreaking, precedent-setting promotion of torture: the former vice president is simply nuts. The attacks of September 11, 2001 just did him...

My wife and I were driving in Arlington, Virginia last week when our journey was interrupted by a huge traffic jam and a crowd gathered across from a rundown strip mall. Yellow crime-scene tape was stretched between light poles, aiding dozens of police who kept back onlookers and directed traffic...

Now that everybody else has had a say about Bush's torture policy and what to do about it here are a few thoughts from me.

I wonder why the world's once-most-secretive man, Cheney, who is now pleading to have the government declassify memos he says show how well...

If you're waiting for ex-President Bush, former Vice President Cheney and the whole host of their accompanying war criminals to be tried for any crime by any foreign nation, forget it. It's not going to happen

The latest hope that it might - that accountability and justice might someday be...

Those oft-quoted words of the late Mexican dictator Porfirio Diaz came to mind today. That was after I read still one more horrific report about how ruthless, terrifying gangs of Mexican narcotics traffickers, competing for which of their products end up on American streets, and battling their government's efforts to...

Not only did Bobby Jindal make a fool of himself in his Republican response to President Obama's speech to Congress, Jindal revealed a few days earlier that he's also a con man.

Even most right-wingers saw his speech as terrible. "I think it's insane. I think it's a disaster...

The old-fashioned Westerns I watched as a kid were simple: good guys vs. bad guys. And if you ever wondered which were which, you just had to look at their hats.

George W. Bush, never managed to grow up past that kind of thinking. There were white hat countries...

Like Frank Rich in Sunday's New York Times, I can't testify to what black Americans feel, as our nation is about to celebrate the inauguration of our first black president. But I can speak for myself as a white American who lived through the civil rights struggle and, as a...

For American visitors, it was strange to see so much merriment in a graveyard.

Vendors peddled ice cream pops and red and blue balloons. Mariachi bands struck up familiar melodies and children shouted as they raced around playing tag. Mothers and fathers laughed and sang as they hugged their...

Hundreds of people rallied at the Capitol earlier this month, extolling the glories of the free market. "Free markets work all the time and every time," one demonstrator shouted. "If people wanted to live in a socialist country, they'd move to Europe," another cried.

It was one more piece...

I wouldn't wish a brain tumor on my worst enemy, and the conservative columnist Robert Novak, whom I've never met, is certainly no enemy of mine, even though I disagree with most of what he writes. But, having said that, I must point out that his latest column, written while...

I hate to disagree with my good friends, the Republicans, especially in the midst of their badly mangled convention. But they've got their ticket all wrong. No, I'm not trying to promote Obama and Biden. Or Nader, Barr or even Ron Paul. But from what Republicans themselves...

The most important single thing I've seen written, spoken or pictured today -- prior to Barack Obama's acceptance speech, or possibly even including it -- appears on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. It's a column by Robert Caro, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, who's been struggling for...

The latest question that drove political junkies to distraction was answered today when Senator Joe Biden of Delaware was named as Barack Obama's Democratic vice presidential runningmate. But the choice of Biden raises other questions. Obviously the most important is whether Obama and he can get elected. But another key...