The Responsibilities of the Democratic Electorate

The need to purge our party of people that don't take their responsibilities to the people of Delaware is an unending job and it takes a concentrated effort. We have to often choose our battles so that we can win a few rather than lose a bunch of them. In 2012, we will again be in a target-rich environment.

No Promo Homo in Tennessee – Updated

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the "No Say Gay" bill wending it's way through the Tennessee legislature. Well, George Takei, better known to those of us of a certain age as Mr. Sulu from the original Star Trek series, is taking on the homophobes and giving people a way around the bill, if it should become law.

On Deficits and Debts; or Don’t Believe the Entitlements Hype

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities continues its yeoman work on documenting where the federal Government's deficits AND Debts come from. Even though most of the readers here likely get this story, it has yet to make much of a dent in the media narrative, which continues to flog the business about entitlement spending being the thing that is running our fiscal futures off of the rails.