The Senate is scheduled to take up legislation next week by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) that would permanently repeal the estate tax on the wealthiest Americans. Per Harold Meyerson today ... Read More

An unreleased report of a US military investigation is said to find that 24 unarmed Iraqis, including 11 women and children, were murdered in Haditha, Iraq by 12 members of ... Read More

CNN is reporting that two members of a CBS news crew, veteran cameraman Paul Douglas and sound tech James Brolin, were killed in Iraq, and correspondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously ... Read More

"Today's guilty verdicts are another victory against the Republican culture of corruption that led President Bush’s buddy Ken Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, Jack Abramoff, Representative Tom Delay and others to believe ... Read More

This morning, I stumbled across a column that is a perceptive, macro-view of life under the Bush Administration: Top Ten Signs of the Impending US Police State by columnist Allen ... Read More

It's official. Hell must have frozen over. Because, as anyone who lived through the November 2004 election knows, hell would have to freeze over before the proudly liberal MoveOn.org ... Read More

Have you taken the pledge yet to see Al Gore's global warming film this weekend when it opens nationwide? Unless you've devoted all your attention to American ... Read More

In accepting the prestigious 2006 Profile of Courage Award this week, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) lamented on CBS about the Iraq War, "...there's not only no progress, it's worse than ... Read More

To mark the 50th anniversary of of President Kennedy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage , Caroline Kennedy today presented the 2006 Profile in Courage Award to former Navy General Counsel ... Read More

The least shocking shocker of the weekend occurred in the great state of Connecticut, which forced its three-term incumbent Senator Lieberman (aka the GOP's favorite Democrat) to face ... Read More

"Jan Egeland, the chief United Nations aid coordinator, told the Security Council today that conditions in Darfur had deteriorated so drastically that the international assistance effort there faced collapse in ... Read More

"An aggressively annoying new phrase in America's political lexicon is 'values voters.' It is used proudly by social conservatives, and carelessly by the media to denote such conservatives. This phrase diminishes ... Read More

Al Gore is clearly THE progressive leader of the moment. Last Saturday, Gore enacted that drop-dead hilarious skit on Saturday Night Live, in which he recounted how events of the ... Read More

Last Saturday, my husband, daughter and I were in San Diego, about 80 miles south of our home, attending a college graduation. We returned early that evening via highway ... Read More

Late last week, the Republican-led Senate passed tax "reconciliation" legislation granting $70 billion in income tax breaks, mainly for very wealthy Americans and for oil companies. The vote was 54 ... Read More

NSA phone-tapping of millions of Americans for the past five years goes beyond mere arrogance and power-mongering. It reflects a deliberate effort to thwart the Constitutional foundation of the United ... Read More

The good news is that, this week, the Senate is finally debating health care issues. The dismal news is that Senate Republicans, of course, have presented a comprehensive plan that ... Read More

"The existence of Guantanamo Bay remains unacceptable. It is time in my view that it should close. ... The historic tradition of the United States as a beacon of freedom, ... Read More

This week was designated by Senate Republican leadership as devoted to health legislative issues .... Medicare and Medicaid issues, the disastrous Medicare drug prescription plan, health savings accounts, mandatory health ... Read More

"This administration may be over....By and large, if you want to be tough about it, the relevancy of this administration on policy may be over." --- Lance Tarrance, a chief architect ... Read More

I must confess....I'm puzzled by the brouhaha over Stephen Colbert's 20-minute performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on April 30, 2006. I've watched the video in full, ... Read More

May 4, 1970....36 years ago today.....was the shocking day that woke my political conscience, and rocked my generation's world. I was 18 years old, a college freshman, and until that ... Read More

"We have arrived at a moment when the immigrant community has woken up. Immigrants work as much or more than any other people in this country, and they are paid ... Read More

The newly realeased film, Akeelah and the Bee, is the first film investment by Starbucks Entertainment, a division of everyone's favorite socially-conscious, Seattle-based coffee purveyor. My teenager daughter and I ... Read More

I, and other drivers, were honking our car horns in solidarity with thousands of immigration marchers today as we drove down a main street in Santa Ana. And then I ... Read More

If, when idly flipping cable channels on a Tuesday night, you catch on C-SPAN a handful of lesser-known members of the House of Representatives orating with passion and lots of ... Read More