Israel and the U.S. have overcome worse spats than the current brouhaha over the announcement of new settlements in Jerusalem just as Veep Biden arrived in country to attempt a reboot of the peace process. One way or another, things will get patched up.

John Stewart recently said he was unsure if Obama was a "Zen Jedi Master" about to make his move, or just a dud...or something like that. I can relate. I have to admit, when the Dems lost MA, I felt pretty low.

Now,...

Colorado's 3rd District, currently held by Democrat John Salazar, is a funny place. Even with a large registration edge favoring the GOP, the region has seen fit to vote Salazar back into office three times now. In 2006, Cortez Republican party apparatchik Scott Tipton attempted to displace the wily yeoman...

G.W. Inc. let loose the Dogs of War. With their ridiculous ruling last week, the Supreme Court, (or at least the stupid members of it), has let loose the Pigs of Corruption, shattering 80 years of steady effort to keep big money from buying the country. Not that the law...

Every Thursday I have coffee with a good friend whose politics are opposite mine. We tend to look for common ground, and here's one patch we agree on: America is starting to look ungovernable. As Steven Flynn put it Tuesday morning on the Diane Rehm Show: "the U.S. has become...

For being the so-called "strong defense" party, the GOP sure screams like a little girl. Every time there is an act of terror, the Neocons freak out beyond all proportion. Between "Filibuster" Joe Lieberman's outright hissyfit on ABC's This Week, demanding that Gitmo be kept open, (so we...

Sometime a few millennia ago, a trove of private e-mails were stolen from the East Anglia University Climate Research Unit, or CRU, and made public to great controversy. Several senior researchers angrily vented in what they thought was a private forum about the deniers that bedeviled them for years, and...

The release of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, has been an occasion of great frivolity amongst those of us on the left. We get to mock her inability to tell Iraq from Iran and her penchant for rewriting her fuck-ups as frustrated angst. For good measure, we rerun all her...

Given the incredibly precarious situation the Dems find themselves in, I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.

To that end, we'll be...

Well, when even old George Will thinks Mary Jane is riding the Freedom Express, you know that national legalization can't be too far away. Or at least we'd like to think so. Aside from the obvious health benefits marijuana imparts, the reasons to normalize our consumption of the herb...

With a few notable exception, broadcast news is a very scary place these days. What Edward R. Murrow would think of the current zeitgeist is unknowable, but we might hazard a guess.

Sorry, Ed.

Again and again and again

I had a love/hate relationship with I Love Lucy when I was a kid. I was embarrassed for her and the situations she'd get herself into. Watching the current slide of the GOP in to nutballdom is similar -- I'm cringing, but fascinated and ... highly entertained.

Bob Cesca's...

Climate change, health care, multiple wars, the economy, and we are treated to 24/7 coverage of ... this.

Former Congressman Scott McInnis was unlikely to stay off radar for too long, and sure enough, last week he announced his candidacy for governor of Colorado. McInnis attacked sitting Guv Bill Ritter for "placing big bets," presumably at the expense of the state. Not to be left out of the...