At most large conventions, attendees straggle in late and tired on that last morning. Such was the case for the 3,814 (!) attendees of the California 2007 Democratic Party Convention ... Read More

Although delegates heard fiery speeches today from four Democratic contenders for the 2008 race, the California Democratic Party's 2007 Convention celebrated one of its own... Nancy Pelosi, who started her ... Read More

Thousands of exuberant Democrats descended on the San Diego Convention Center today for Day One of the California 2007 Democratic Party Convention... much to the confusion of 12,000 eye ... Read More

I arrived in San Diego this evening, April 26, for the California 2007 Democratic Party Convention, which is set for April 28 and 29. Pre-convention caucuses, meetings, protest marches and ... Read More

Tell me it's not so! Please... it can't be true. Rosie...leaving "The View"? It was announced today that actress and liberal activist Rosie O'Donnell will be parting ways with ... Read More

Last week, I had the privilege of meeting John Podesta, president/founder of the respected moderate-progressive think tank, Center for American Progress (CAP) and former Chief of Staff for President Bill ... Read More

"This Sunday, April 22, is Earth Day, a time when millions of Americans celebrate and renew their personal commitment to environmental stewardship, " writes Larry West, About.com's Guide to Environmental ... Read More

Today in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003, which imposes a nationwide federal ban on the late-term abortion procedure, does ... Read More

My political awakening rudely arrived on May 4, 1970 when I, then a college freshman, learned of students shot to death on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. ... Read More

Guesting on her mother's TV program last Friday, Alexis Stewart, daughter of Martha Stewart, decried the firing of radio shock-jock Don Imus as a chilling affront to free speech rights ... Read More

My twenty-something son, who usually votes for moderate Republicans, surprised me when he announced (at Easter dinner!) his support for Sen. Hillary Clinton in 2008. Puzzled, I told him, "But ... Read More

I agree with the New York Times that, in President Bush's April 9, 2007 speech in Yuma, Arizona, he "showed once again that immigration is an issue he understands." ... Read More

Four years ago today, U.S.-led coalition forces toppled Baghdad and symbolically dragged down the statue of Saddam Hussein, merely 21 days after the March 20, 2003 start of the Iraq ... Read More

Pundits openly lament, and ponder the effects of, the premature start to the 2008 presidential race. On January 27, 2007, the New York Times observed: "Two years before the ... Read More

Both Democratic and Republican candidates for the 2008 White House race are reporting record-smashing fundraising totals for the first three months of 2007. And most report it with the undisguised ... Read More

A reader recently wrote to me that I'm a bit too "Obama-y" for her taste. She leans more toward Hillary Clinton or John Edwards for the Democratic 2008 nomination for ... Read More