Author: Jay Tea

In Massachusetts, a young law student is collecting signatures to run for the state Senate. Samiyah Diaz, 28, has nearly all her progressive credentials in order: she's a daughter …

Yesterday, I spotted a news item that struck me as a bit familiar: over at Al Jazeera, they are reporting on the suffering of the Palestinians (as usual), and …

As the Palestinians led up to their elections recently, the United States government repeatedly stated that it would have no dealings with Hamas, regardless of the outcome. As the …

In Massachusetts, the government is all in a dither about the health-care crisis supposedly gripping the state. And two of the leading Democrats, the President of the Senate and …

A while ago, I irritated yet another person (funny how that happens) who thought to pay me back by signing me up to a whole host of liberal e-mail …

The other day, I brought up the subject of the ongoing genocide in Darfur, and linked to an earlier piece where I said that, as horrendous as the situation …

Now that the initial sound and fury of the AP's "exclusive new videos" (which were neither exclusive nor new) that were hyped so heavily earlier this week has passed, …

I've mentioned my little hobby before -- fixing up old computers for a friend of mine who runs the home-school co-op for her church. It's a fun little thing …

I've always thought of California as the nation's trend-setter, not New Hampshire. We try not to show where the nation is going, but where it should. That's one reason …

This week's Milblog is JD's blog from Faces from the Front. JD is a former Marine combat cameraman who left the Corps and went into journalism, and is now …