Washington Post ~ by Thomas B. Edsall

Grants Flow To Bush Allies On Social Issues

In a Dec. 12, 2002, executive order, Bush addressed one of the major concerns of religious groups considering applying for public money. Bush declared that religious groups receiving federal grants would not be required to comply with […]

Washington Post ~ by Howie Kurtz

Bush the Salesman

Review of a Presidential press conference wherein Bush asserted he never wanted to go to war. His labored explanation(s) were never followed up or disputed in the slightest by those reporters present in the WH Press Corp:
I’m glad the president, after a record low […]

From the wikipedia entry on the word “Nigger”:
Nigger, also spelled niger (obs.), nigor (obs. dial. Eng.), nigre, nigar (Caribbean), niggor (obs. dial.), neger (obs. U.S.), nigger, niggur, nigga, niggah, and niggar (obs.), is a derogatory term used worldwide to refer to black people.
During the period when slavery was practiced in the United States, […]

The New Yorker ~ by Hendrik Hertzberg

DISARRAY THIS

Reaction to the Censure Motion put forth by Sen. Russ Feingold :
The immediate consequence of Feingold’s gambit was not Republican dismay but, yes, Democratic disarray—or, at least, every appearance of it. In the Washington Post, Dana Milbank described a stampede through the marble halls […]

Huffington Post ~ by Digby

Bad Instincts

Donna Brazile broke with the beltway establishment and wrote in Roll Call earlier this week: As a Beltway insider, I am convinced that we cannot continue to tell those who have loyally supported our Democratic leaders to wait. Wait for what? Wait until our pollsters give us the green […]

Feingold’s Censure Adventure

http://www.slate.com/id/2138169/

On Russ Feingold….
For a party that supposedly celebrates its diversity, Democrats sure do have trouble accommodating it. Liberal activists tell it this way: Faced with a man of virtue and rectitude, Democratic leaders jumped behind the couch, hoping they could capitulate quickly so they could get back to appeasing […]

Survivors of the plague, finding themselves neither destroyed nor improved, could discover no Divine purpose in the pain they had suffered. God’s purposes were usually mysterious, but this scourge had been too terrible to be accepted without questioning. To that extent the Black Death may have been the unrecognized beginning of […]