Everything I Need to Know About 9/11 I Learned at the Last Night of the Proms
I am sitting here tonight watching the Last Night of the Proms - a great, if bizarre British tradition, and I am relishing the absurd costumes of the punters, the buzz in the hall. I remember that 10...
View ArticleA 9/11 Reader
There has been a flood of remembrances, reflections, and reporting on this 10 year anniversary of The Events. I've been pretty selective about the things I chose to read or watch - there's only so much...
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Jobs Growth Since Obama Inauguration
Blog stats data tells me that a number of people are finding this site through a search for "Jobs Growth Since Obama Inauguration". That's a good thing to be searching for (both Google-wise and, you...
View ArticleNot a Hypothetical Question
During the last GOP debate, there was a chilling moment when Wolf Blitzer asked candidate Rob Paul whether a hypothetical man without health insurance should be allowed to die. Someone from the...
View ArticleDADT ends today...
The US Military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy - under which gay men and women were allowed to serve, as long as they were duplicitous and secretive about their personal lives, has finally come to an...
View ArticleWill Elizabeth Warren be the Next Senator...
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? After seeing this video, I'm REALLY hoping she will. Superb. I've got chills. Be afraid, Scott Brown. Be very afraid.
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Best Protest Sign Ever?
I have to agree with Matthew Yglesias: This is a huge step forward in protest sign communications...Basically, this conveys the key point - for the overwhelming majority of Americans, the income growth...
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More Great Protest Signs! Occupy Wall Street People Can Spell and do Math!
These two are making exactly the case I made in yesterday's blog, but with cardboard instead of pixels. Yay for cardboard.This one is accurately describing some of the reprehensible behaviour of the...
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Gadflies and Choristers: An Open Letter to Andrew Sullivan
Dear Andrew,I was thrilled to have the chance to meet you this week, at fundraisers for Immigration Equality (a fantastic organisation, by the way, doing brave and necessary work to overturn cruel and...
View ArticleThe Attempt to Terrorise Sandra Fluke - and All Women
If you've been following US news, you will be aware that yesterday President Obama placed a call to offer his support to Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who testified last week...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh is Still Calling Sandra Fluke a Slut
Following up from my last post, it's incumbent upon me to report that Rush has issued the following supposed "apology":“For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a...
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A Super Tuesday Tale: The Story So Far
Hello boys and girls! In America, it's Super Tuesday today - so primary voters in 10 states are casting their ballots today. This is probably a good time to remind you of the Story So Far in the...
View ArticleBecause America Has Suffered Enough...
To spare us the misery of watching Republican candidates all day today, Barack Obama gives a press conference. He's so considerate.On Iran: My policy is not containment, my policy is to prevent them...
View ArticleMaking the Case...
You'll be hearing a lot more from me over the next few weeks about why I passionately believe we need to re-elect Obama this November - both because of the great work that he's done and the real harm...
View ArticleYou heard it here first...
Long time blog followers may remember that I wrote last year about meeting then-DNC Policy Director Clyde Williams and his impressive wife Mona Sutphen who was a Deputy Cheif of Staff to the President....
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The Democrats Abroad Global Primary Starts Next Tuesday...
Reblogged from my Left Foot Forward article, posted today:With all the attention on next week’s mayoral elections, and the expectations of a disappointing result for voters on the left, perhaps...
View ArticleGay Marriage Won't Change the Meaning of Marriage. But it will Change the...
If you have been avoiding all news sources for the past week, you may have missed the moment when President Obama came out and expressed his personal support for allowing same sex couples to marry.As...
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How bad was Romney's first day in London?
It has been widely reported already in the US that Mitt Romney's first foreign trip as a US Presidential candidate... did not go well. But my suspicion is that a lot of my friends in America who are...
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Freedom from Firearms... A British Perspective
Tragically, America has just suffered another mass shooting leaving more of our fellow citizens grieving lost family members. Even more tragically, that sentence could stand unaltered for every week of...
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If you are choosing between two great candidates, choose the Democrat. Or:...
This is the Hillary Clinton endorsement that I was never sure I’d write. Getting myself to the point where I was certain enough of my vote to be able to write it has been the most complex and,...
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The case for Bernie... a few words from our friends on the other side
Note: As you may have seen in my previous post, I recently declared my intention to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primary. I feel good about that decision, but I know a lot of people that...
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The Reason Donald Trump Would be the Worst Imaginable President. No, the...
You may have been noticing lately how Donald Trump's casually violent rhetoric and eager embrace of racism and xenophobia is (surprise, surprise!) inspiring an unseemly amount of casualviolence, racism...
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What should Bernie Sanders supporters do if he does not win the nomination?
Senator Sanders likes to talk about a political revolution in this country. I suspect a lot of the folks who aren't supporting him for President still agree that some of these broken systems need root...
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Hope is a choice.
I don't know about you, but I have not been enjoying 2016 so far. It's been a pretty hard slog for me, personally and professionally. My husband and I have both had some health problems. (Don't worry,...
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The Obama Mug
This is my Obama mug.I bought it almost exactly 8 years ago today. It's an official Obama/Biden Inaugural mug. When I bought it, it had a gold seal on it commemorating the 2008 inauguration. I was in...
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