LCV Climate Change poster child, Susan CollinsThe Establishment-oriented LGBT organization, HRC, endorsed Republican Senator Susan Collins, who has an record of studiously ignoring gay equality issues in Maine and voting precisely 50% of the time with conservatives and 50% of the time with normal senators on gay issues in DC.
This morning when I woke up the top story on Salon was Digby's Put Alan Grayson On Benghazi Panel! Why He's Dems' Best Option To Expose This Clown Show. "With the latest Benghazi! ™ extravaganza about to begin," she wrote, "the Democrats are faced with a dilemma.
At last night's Hillman Awards festivities, Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, presented Heather (Digby) Parton with this year's prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.by KenIf you're going to be hanging out with a horde of folks for the giving out (and receiving) of prizes, I suppose you can't do much better than a crowd of -- at least theoretically -- unreconstructed lefties like last night's festivities for the bestowing of the 2014 Hillman Awards, im
by KenLast night Howie passed on the news that the Sidney Hillman Foundation has chosen Digby as the recipient of this year's Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, "for incisive commentary on the struggle for economic justice in the U.S." Does it get any better?If you haven't already read the citation, which Howie included in his post, I can only encourage you to read it
It's no secret that Blue America is as excited about the Shenna Bellows race in Maine this cycle, as we were about the Elizabeth Warren race in Massachusetts last cycle. The two women are different in many ways, of course, but both are strong, independent-minded, brilliant and focused on breaking through the same-ole/same-ole that has made Washington so utterly dysfunctional.
After Kennedy took office, he was unaware that the CIA, in accord with an OK from President Eisenhower and working with the Belgians, had overseen the gruesome torture and brutal murder of the Congo's popular first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba. With Lumumba already dead a month and his body dissolved in sulphuric acid, Kennedy called for him to be reintegrated into the new nation's government. The CIA-- Allen Dulles, who JFK foolishly kept on as director-- hadn't told him that they had carried out Eisenhower 's orders to have him murdered as a commie dupe.
While congressional Republicans-- with their 9% job approval rating-- boasted about obstructing President Obama at every turn, the Administration was imploring Congress to extend unemployment benefits to the longterm unemployed.
Unlike Benghazi! and the rest of the nonsense Darrell Issa's Witch-Hunt Committee "investigates," Boehner is eager to try to get some serious attention focused on the flaws in the roll out of the Affordable Care Act.
Last month, Digby read an interesting study that helps explain why European Parliaments aren't overstocked with multimillionaires unable to relate to or have empathy with ordinary middle class citizens.
