Making a Case for the Blue States
So many people I talked with last month online and in person couldn’t believe how strongly I was defending General Motors. Here were the talking points I heard day after day: Serves them right for making cars no one wants…
Never has $14 billion sounded like so little money. Last week, the executives of the Big Three automakers humbly drove to Washington in their hybrid cars, having been chastised by congress during their previous visit for arriving in corporate jets.…
George W. Bush sat down with Charlie Gibson for an interview at Camp David recently. He seemed much more congenial, less combative than he has in most interviews in the past few years. Kind of like the old George Dubya…
There has been a lot written in the past few days about how America is still a “center-right” country. This is basically the right-wing talking heads plugging their ears and saying na-na-na-na-na-na so they don’t have to listen to what’s…
If you’re like me and really didn’t understand why the taxpayers needed to fund this bailout — other than to “free up credit” so businesses could meet payroll, people could get mortgages, etc. — the article I’m linking to below…
There’s an excellent op-ed piece in today’s Salon.com by Gary Kamiya, about how the McCain campaign is attempting (once again) to use Obama’s “blackness” as a way to scare white voters off the Democratic ticket. But perhaps even more effectively,…