Top 10 List for 2010 Infrastructure
1. Top Huffington Post Blog Chris Matthews: “Infrastructure as Monument” 2. Top Presidential Speech President Obama: “Our Generation’s Sputnik Moment is Now” 3. Top Infrastructure Journalist Rachel...
View ArticleSatire is Very Serious
People understand comedy like they understand electricity. They utilize it, enjoy it, know it comes from somewhere – but fundamentally don’t know much about it. And judging by the reaction to The Daily...
View ArticleObamas Critics Owe Him a New Years FactBased Apology
The left of the left — at least as represented by some of its commentators hovering around the Democratic Party — has a choice: make a New Years’ resolution to rejoin the reality-based community, or...
View ArticleSam Stein Obama May Pick Bill Daley With An Eye Toward 2012 VIDEO
Sam Stein dropped by the “Rachel Maddow” show on Tuesday to talk with guest host Chris Hayes about a hot prospect for Barack Obama’s next chief of staff. According to Stein, Bill Daley could be the...
View ArticleWhy Roger Ailes Watches Fox News on Mute
“There are no parties that I want to go to, and I didn’t go to Columbia journalism school.” Those are Roger Ailes’ qualifications to be one of the most important people in media, according to Roger...
View ArticleLife Without Olbermann Feeling Left Out
I admit that I’ve been a fan of Keith Olbermann from his SportsCenter days on ESPN. I found his unique brand of sardonic humor a nice change from the rah-rah breathless blah, blah inane chat that used...
View ArticleSmall Government vs the Big A of Abortion
While Egyptian citizens are in the streets demanding more democracy, we — who apparently have all the democracy we need — are protesting not at all, as Republicans attempt to force radical...
View ArticleWisconsin Is Front Line of GOP War on Democrats So Where Are the National...
I wrote two weeks ago about how Gov. Scott Walker’s so-called budget repair bill was part of a larger Republican war on the working class. And the events of the last two weeks have backed that up....
View ArticleGov Walker and Charlie Sheen Let Us Now Praise Martin Sheen and His Work for...
Do the reckless anti-union machinations by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker make him the Charlie Sheen of politics? If only celebrated actor Martin Sheen received the same media exposure as his troubled son...
View ArticleHuffPosts Amanda Terkel Discusses GOP Efforts To Restrict Union Rights On...
Amanda Terkel, Senior Politics Reporter at The Huffington Post, appeared Monday on ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ to discuss new anti-union measures being proposed by Republicans in Congress. “They’re going...
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