Tuesday Open Thread

Tell everyone your deep, dark secrets. We promise not to tell anyone. Let's get this conversation started: A heartbreaking story of a man who lost his job and joined the…

Secret Service Is Very, Very Busy

I find articles like this extremely disturbing - probably because it's so easy to see where it's heading. The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in…

Redo in Afghanistan

President Hamid Karzai has relented to international and internal pressure agreeing to a runoff election scheduled for Nov. 7th of this year. Whether the runoff election will be held in…

Grab A Mop, Get to Work

So I'm still catching up on the news and watched President Obama speak at a fundraiser in San Francisco. Definitely a red meat speech -- as much as he actually does that -- but it is a great speech specifically calling out the Party of No:

Down With Tyranny Evaluates John Carney

...with help from Progressive Democrats of Delaware and Delaware Liberal contributors. The writer here also runs the Blue Progressive PAC and was looking for some input from the locals on John Carney's progressive cred. You can see the full blog post over at Down With Tyranny here. The key evaluation comes from Rebecca, I think:

Tea For One

Things are getting crazier out there.  And Paul Baumbach asks a great question. What effect will conservative tea-party activists have on the GOP? Well... given the increase in criticism from…

Where Cries of Socialism Meet Racism

Christopher J. Lee, assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has an interesting op-ed piece in the Christian Science Monitor looking at the racist undertones of…

Monday Open Thread

I'm still all juiced up from the weekend craziness. You guys were chatty this weekend! It's open thread time - what do you want to talk about? It's a special…