The liberal blogosphere will finally have it first full-fledged confab in 2006 when liberal blogger community DailyKos hosts the YearlyKos Convention on June 8 to 11, 2006 in Las Vegas. ... Read More

Shockwaves reverberated down the hallways of Congress today as Senate Majority Bill Frist (R-TN) broke from the White House and ultra-conservative Christian lobbyists and voiced surprise support for HR 810, ... Read More

Exactly one year ago....at the very hour that I write this....an American political star was born. Yes, one year ago, Barack Obama, then an Illinois State Senator and candidate for ... Read More

Have you noticed my new About.com blogroll? If not, take a gander here. This is my personal short-list of blogs and other media that I read almost daily. It's ... Read More

I had no huge concerns about the Bush nomination of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to fill the Supreme court vacancy. After all, this Harvard-educated attorney/judge is widely respected on ... Read More

The Los Angeles Times reports today that President Bush plans to revive his campaign to loosen laws against illegal immigrants working in the US. In January 2004, the President proposed ... Read More

We are blessed to live in a country where, thanks to our forefathers, we may voice our opinions and objections to government action. US approval of the War in ... Read More

Campaign reports filed earlier this week with the Federal Election Commission showed that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) had an astounding $12.6 million in cash on hand at the end ... Read More

Voters rights and electoral reform are on my mind these days. I worked as an election official for my Southern California county in the 2004 Presidential election, so I have ... Read More

Eyebrows, and liberal hackles, were raised as facts came to light on Wednesday that the President's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, Judge John G. Roberts, Jr., personally ... Read More

Here are results of the latest straw poll taken by 8000 DailyKos members, this week, of preferred Democratic candidate for the 2008 presidential race.... Clark ... Read More

I'm writing an in-depth article on my liberal take of various rulings, opinions, cases and utterances of Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. Meanwhile, let's take a jog around ... Read More

From Associated Press,..... President Bush chose federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday as his first nominee for the Supreme Court, selecting a rock solid conservative whose nomination ... Read More

From Republican insider blog Confirm Them, in the last few minutes.... "An informed source told ABC News they had spoken with Clement and said she received a phone call from the ... Read More

Blogger Ed Bremson at Tao of Politics, author of three political books, posted a logical analysis today of the President's next two nominations to the US Supreme Court.... "President Bush will ... Read More

I would do this only for my loyal readers.....I've been foraging in the vast, scary wilderness of the conservative blogosphere, looking for the latest word on tonight's announcement of the ... Read More

President Bush said today he will soon meet possible nominees for the US Supreme Court opening to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, but that other contenders may ... Read More

Excerpts from an AP story today....."The top policy adviser to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says the Bush administration erred by building its public case for war against Saddam Hussein ... Read More

From AP this afternoon... " Gov. Tom Vilsack (of Iowa) was named Friday as the head of the Democratic Leadership Council, the centrist-leaning group that helped propel former President Clinton ... Read More

I try to not turn this blog into a rant...but there are always exceptions. Today is one. Inquiring minds want to know why I'm not frothing at the mouth, along ... Read More

Newly launched yesterday was StemPac, a bipartisan team of industry leading grassroots mobilizers, political consultants, and private sector stem cell research supporters. StemPac is a 527 organization that plans to ... Read More

Just got off the phone from a telephone briefing hosted by DNC Chair Howard Dean at which Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) spoke and took questions for about 20 ... Read More

I've been invited to participate on Tuesday afternoon (tomorrow, as I write this)in a DNC conference call briefing with Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. The subject will be potential Supreme ... Read More

From AP this morning, "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton went on the attack against President Bush in a speech Sunday, accusing him of damaging the economy by overspending while giving tax ... Read More

Maybe it's just me, but I was astonished when, in a June 2005 poll of almost 14,000 DailyKos blog readers, Wesley Clark was the surprise top choice for the 2008 ... Read More

From Reuters today...."U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid urged President Bush on Saturday to say 'no to the far right' and nominate to the ... Read More

The latest at 9 PM EST on the impending resignation of Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist comes from leading liberal voice, Josh Marshall of TPMCafe and Talking Points Memo.... "A tip ... Read More

Browsing the blogopshere for reactions to the brutal bombings in London, one comment stands out as asking the right question....After 9/11, after years and billions spent by George Bush in ... Read More

Conservative pundit Robert Novak, clearly a man with first-rate White House sources, states...not predicts, but states......in his Chicago Sun-times column today, "Adding to the tension is word from court sources ... Read More

I've added a new, important link to this site's Stem Cell Research homepage...a link to the Boston Globe's 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of The Stem Cell Debate. Boston Globe ... Read More

Says Bill Israel of Editor & Publisher, via blogger Avedon Carol at Sideshow, "Save the First Amendment--from Karl Rove." "A man who taught with Rove, and considers him a ... Read More

On July 1, LA inaugurated its first Hispanic mayor since 1872 in five hours of festivities befitting fledgling political royalty. And if pundits read the tea leaves correctly, the dazzlingly ... Read More

One by one by one, they see the new light.....from blogger Liberaltopia: "As of today, after 25 years, I am no longer a Republican. My Republican Party was the party of Abraham ... Read More

It's only a rumor, but it's a rumor that won't go away....that Jon Stewart of The Daily Show has been offered a boatload of cash to move his show to ... Read More

From blogger Liberaltopia today....."To those neocons who have expressed doubt as to the authenticity of the classified Downing Street Memo of July 23, 2002, they can stop doubting, as none ... Read More

To borrow from 1970s David Bowie lyrics, ch-ch-ch-changes are in the air. The news of the day, of course, is that this morning, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced ... Read More