Month: September 2018

When 85-year-old country music legend Willie Nelson joined 46-year-old Texas Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) on stage Saturday night in Austin, they were greeted by more than 50,000…

Coons has taken his victory lap on TV and in Delaware City and that's great. Good for you Chris. But's let's look at what passes for Coons style bipartisan comity…

America's pundits have had a chance to ponder the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation process, and they have reached a sort of rough consensus: This is nuts. For those like Salon's Andrew…

When I first learned about him through his pop radio friendly "Workers Playtime" album (1988), Billy Bragg had been a pain in Thatcher's ass for a number of years. The…

From an article in The Atlantic by Mary Coppins, who asked Jeff Flake if the impassioned lecture he got from a rape survivor spurred his compromise call for a limited…

The songs I come back to are mostly English/80's/political/frequently gay. We'll start today with perhaps the most upbeat and dancebale protest song ever - Free Nelson Mandela by the Specials AKA (1984) [embed]https://youtu.be/2_G7vzJwcYM[/embed]

Sure sounds that way. We'll probably get more details by morning, but Sen. Chris Coons is getting prominent mention across the media for his role in brokering a deal with…

This morning's committee vote to push Brett Kavanaugh's nomination through to the full Senate served as a fitting anti-climax to yesterday's blockbuster hearings. The Common Wisdom on the Republican rush…