Steve Jobs' ideology was simple -- innovate and make it better than its ever been done before. Woe is our nation that neither of our two major political parties had such a simple purpose and direction.
Since the year 2000, when I watched in horror as Al Gore took the dive and played dead in Florida (the theft was exposed three months before the fact ...
I just got this email from Dennis Kucinich. Please chip in what you can to help a great independent-minded progressive: http://kucinich.us/contribute ...
Rahm Emanuel is back in Chicago, laying the groundwork for his run for mayor. And from some corners, at least, the welcome isn't entirely warm. Joe...
If you're writing about the oil spill that started in the gulf, call it the Gulf BP Congress Catastrophe. When history remembers, let it have a name that places the blame where it is due.
Darren Kinnaird, a staffer on the Giles Perkins for Alabama Attorney General Campaign, guest posted on my blog today this important message from Howar...
So, how about it, SNL? Maybe I'll never be a not-ready-for-prime-time player. But, at least let me, and other fans, help determine who will be, every few weeks.
Tuesday night's debate between Democratic Senate candidates Michael Bennet and Andrew Romanoff may have seemed placid, but the war of words between Be...
If Andrew Romanoff's Senate Campaign is dead, somebody forgot to tell the candidate. Romanoff, the former Democratic Speaker of the Colorado State Ho...
Joe Trippi is joining Fox News as a contributor. The Swamp reports that the Democratic consultant and former Howard Dean campaign manager will begi...
Irrevocably, politics changed in the past 10 years because of technology in general and the Internet in particular. So here, in no particular order, are the decade's top moments in tech and politics.
I learned a lot in the long campaign of 1980. Kennedy taught me loyalty, brotherhood, to never give in -- and to always fight.
What exactly would it take to make Howard Dean a lobbyist? A special badge from the Wizard of Oz?
In early 2003, when no one believed in the Dean campaign, there were two individuals and two online communities in particular that were there from the...
Trippi posted the lame assertion that "I have never been paid by anyone to post or blog anything by anyone." Well, what is BIO paying Joe to do?
There's an important health care debate that's been under the radar. It's the issue of "biosimilars," which are medicines developed to mimic complex biologic drugs that treat diseases like cancer.
This poll shows that despite how much McAuliffe thinks this race is all about the money, in Virginia money isn't everything.
At puppy mills, breeding dogs are often stacked in filthy, wire cages for years on end, to produce litter after litter.
While lobbying alone is not evil, the combination of special interest lobbyists and their ability to legally funnel millions into political campaigns is toxic.
Like many decent people, Daschle got caught in a bad system that is so corrupted by money it hardly matters whether the money is from good people with good intentions or bad people with bad intentions.
Not only are some of the most non-trusted companies in America blatantly trying to buy off Congress, but they're using our bailout money to do it. Enough!
Change Congress is bringing sexy back... to the campaign finance reform debate. The donor strike will make sure politicians are well aware of how much money they're losing if they oppose reform.
The Virginia gubernatorial race is getting a distinctly national campaign feel to it. On Wednesday, Rep. Brian Moran's campaign announced that promine...
I and others will soon announce a large grassroots campaign aimed at channeling the amazing desire for change that Americans are feeling right now into tangible and fundamental reform of our political system.
