Here we go again

Welcome to post-racial America, where the only thing that matters is race. CNN: Rep. Danny Davis, a Democrat from Illinois and mayoral candidate in Chicago has a message for former President Bill Clinton: Butt out. Davis, a onetime ally of Clinton’s, issued a strongly worded statement Tuesday, in which the Chicago Democrat said he is [...]

Better late than never

Elizabeth Warren: No one has missed the headlines: Haphazard and possibly illegal practices at mortgage-servicing companies have called into question home foreclosures across the nation. The latest disclosures are deeply troubling, but they should not come as a big surprise. For years, both individual homeowners and consumer advocates sounded alarms that foreclosure processes were riddled [...]

WikiLeaks vs. The Pentagon Papers

Floyd Abrams: In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg decided to make available to the New York Times (and then to other newspapers) 43 volumes of the Pentagon Papers, the top- secret study prepared for the Department of Defense examining how and why the United States had become embroiled in the Vietnam conflict. But he made another critical [...]

Wednesday, Put your left foot in, take your left foot out

At least with the Hokey-Pokey, the circle stays in the same place — we don’t have to do quick double-hops to move closer to “the center.”  In Washington, concepts like “the center” shift every couple of months.  So, today we see misleading headlines like: Advice for Obama: Move to the center is a wise one [...]

I can’t believe I missed this one

Marc Rubin wrote this last week: So amazingly, even in a year and in an election where it was virtually impossible for the Democrats to lose, the leadership of the Democratic party found a way to lose. It took two years and Obama botching everything from healthcare to the stimulus to the Bush tax cuts,but [...]