Progressive Eruptions

Georges Bizet’s first opera, Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers), though not as popular as his opera Carmen , it still is performed a...

In March 2007, New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor published a brief story about how Rev. Jeremiah Wright had been uninvited from deliverin...

Each time I visit Boston Common, I make sure I stop at Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s Robert Gould Shaw Memorial. This graceful, dignified bas-rel...

Mickey Edwards, long time friend of Vice President Cheney, instructs Cheney on the Constitution, the separation of powers, and vice presiden...

Jim Geraghty of the National Review Online is being sarcastic when he writes this: Thursday, March 20, 2008 BARACK OBAMA Obama Helpfully Cla...

Fewer Voters Identify as Republicans Democrats Now Have the Advantage in "Swing" States March 20, 2008 The balance of party identi...

Full article by John Dean here. Hopefully Obama Will Not Shift His Strategy toward Playing Dumb Senator Obama's smart speech on race is ...

This is in answer to the two comments by Patrick and j_g left on the post below this one: I'm sorry you both have such violent feelings ...

OBAMA: "NOT THIS TIME" By John Nichols, The Nation: Barack Obama could have responded to the controversy that has been ginned up...

UPDATE: For an excellent take on this issue, see Glenn Greenwald's post: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/03/17/wright/index....

I'm taking a break from the low art of politics and refreshing my heart with some gorgeous Bellini music and the high art of opera. The ...

FROM BARACK OBAMA: "The pastor of my church, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who recently preached his last sermon and is in the process of retir...

(Click on comic for larger image.) With the aid of Florida lawmakers, Allen Hayes, and Ronda Storms, Ben Stein is putting his money where h...

Barack Obama triumphed in a racially divided Mississippi primary today by winning about 90% of black votes and a third of white voters. He a...

"A Pentagon-sponsored study of captured Iraqi intelligence archives has been unable to find a single operational link between Saddam Hu...

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UPDATE II: Obama gains more supers Posted: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:55 PM by Domenico Montanaro From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro Obama gained...

"We need Barack Obama bloodied up politically. It's obvious that the Republicans are not going to do it—they don't have the sto...

photo by Jason Butler, Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, Mass. Lions are just overgrown pussycats. Two guys, Ace Berg and John Rendall, raised a l...

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