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When Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer wrote The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy , many critics tried to ...

There was a lot of buzz last week regarding Feingold-Reid (or Reid-Feingold). However, virtually no attention was paid to the Warner Amendment, which was rejected 52-44 along mostly party-line ...

Kent Conrad is Chair of the Senate Budget Committee. He also is the only current Senator from a Red State to vote against the Iraq War Resolution. And he's a deficit hawk. In other words, he's ...

Did you hear about how the Boston PD savagely beat members of Veterans for Peace last night? Or how the police "attacked" the Occupy Seattle occupiers? Or how there was a nationwide coordinated ...

As you've probably heard, juror selection in the Scooter Libby trial has begun. And, apparently it's going to be a long, long process, if the Associated Press is to be believed. Their headline:

Yep, John McCain, not content to become Bush's third Term, has decided to make his campaign all about him being the next Dick Cheney. ...

Digg it! John McCain is a misogynist pig. When he's ...

The word 'triangulation' is one of the most overused words in the political lexicon. It's stale rhetoric just as it's a stale tactic. However, I think we need to come up with a new word--'...

The ideological debate in this country is not about rich versus the poor. Instead it is about whether the government should serve the rich or whether it should serve the rich and the middle class. ...

Finally, the campaigns move beyond the "he said, she said" of the Youtube debate. Today Obama blasted Bush's corruption and lack of care for the less fortunate in society, while tying such ...

Short and simple. Whereas some Democrats in Congresss have remained inappropriately deferential to the Supreme Court and others have hinted a possible lack of legitimacy for the Court were it to ...

Cross-posted at Talk Left. Game on, folks. While there's been some discussion about his nukes stand in the speech today, what's ...

(Don't worry, I haven't lost my mind) John Edwards ran a great, gutty, substantive campaign. He pushed issues that progressives and Democrats care deeply about. And, those who supported him and ...

Is Elizabeth Warren's status as personal advisor to President Obama paying off? It appears so.

I've tried to avoid writing primary 2008 diaries for a whole host of reasons (the foremost of which is that they're grossly premature). But Barack Obama's website is featuring something ...

Many have condemned the Bush administration for its contempt for the Constitution. Bush at best paid lip service to the Constitution, and when it inconvenienced him he simply ignored it. And he ...

The Appropriations Committee voted today on the timeline for withdrawal from Iraq and the overall supplemental appropriation. Long story short: the vote was a victory for the good guys. ...

Nancy Pelosi just issued an invitation to the Supreme Court to strike down the ACA. If people thought her "impeachment is off the table" comment was a preemptive surrender, check this nonsense out.

Dave "Mudcat" Saunders is the "Rural Liaison" for the John Edwards campaign. He is very much of ...

Surprise, surprise. Harry Reid has punked out, and wished the Medicare Slashing Duo of Obama and Boehner luck in reaching a compromise.

Do you remember how much scorn was heaped at Democrats who suggested that maybe, just maybe, staying in Iraq for a McCain for an eternity was a really bad idea? That how a timeline for withdrawal ...

If one wants any proof that the years of tireless advocacy for healthcare reform and protecting the rights of children have paid some dividends, one need look no further than the Republican outrage ...

I think we have reached a new low from the folks at Salon.com. Not low for them, but low for the world of political commentary. You see, Obama is a positive, caring person. Which makes him a ...

Over the weekend and into this week, there was a lot of excited chatter and angst over the Democratic response to Bush's inevitable veto of the supplemental funding bill and various candidate ...

Yesterday I diaried about how Kent Conrad was going to use Congressional budget authority and rules to start ratcheting up the ...

Divide and conquer is the name of the game. The Democrats threatened to divide themselves on the issue of Iraq withdrawal, but somehow Nancy Pelosi united the caucus to force through a devastating ...

Yair Netanyahu, oldest son of Israeli Prime Minister and a member of the IDF media relations unit, has gone ahead and committed the political crime of candor on his Facebook page.

UPDATE: Some people don't like being told to STFU. Fine. If your argument is valid, you'll have facts and logic to support it. Without those, the electability meme is just an unsupported, ...

You know how the flu shot works: the doctor injects the patient with some weakened, dead, and generally pitiful excuses for viruses. The body whips these chumps, gets itself immunized and ...

No recap is needed for the horrid mess that was the McClurkin fiasco (I'm sooooo sick of even typing that moron's name). It reflected poorly upon the Obama campaign in any number of ways, depending ...

You just knew it was going to happen. Anti-semitism and hostility to science are two pillars of rightwing Christian fundamentalism. Eventually, somewhere, the Bush/DeLay party was going to find a ...

At yesterday's Des Moines Register/Iowa Public Television debate, most folks think that the 'best' moment was when Barack Obama zipped off a witty one-liner to Hillary Clinton on the question of ...

This is a choice Democratic primary voters will have starting on January 3, 2008. Who do we want representing the US? Who will show the world that the way of doing business under Bush is over?

No, really. (UPDATE): Here's a link to the Miami Herald article. On a just-ended campaign conference call,

The standard definition of electability for a Democrat goes something like this: Governor White Socially moderate to conservative Non-ideological to hawkish on foreign policy and the use of ...

The big lesson that everyone seems to have learned from New Hampshire is that polls simply can't be trusted. And that, thus, nobody really knows who's going to win Nevada. That's nonsense. ...

Hotline the other day linked to a story hosted (unfortunately) by the AEI. However, the story itself is based on exit polling, and includes some fascinating numbers. Basically, some exit ...

(Forgive the use of a rightwing term, but what Bill is doing here is using rightwing framing) Just when you thought Bill Clinton had jumped over his last shark, he pulls a rare-combo--accusing ...

Well, the gloves are off. I'm sure everyone has heard about the "would you meet with these leaders" question from last night. Well, Hillary Clinton is sensing a vulnerability and is going for ...

The West Indian American Day Parade, held every Labor Day in the heart of Brooklyn, is one of the largest cultural events in the country. Attended by upwards of 2 million spectators, it's Carnival ...

This diary is going to piss a lot of people off. Well, that's too bad. Because I am in full-on gadfly mode. Because, dogmas need to be debunked. More below the fold.

Joe Biden tried to convince House Democrats yesterday that the administration was ...