Conventional wisdom and a million media voices have told us Barack Obama is a very likeable guy.  It’s supposedly the  reason he’s even got a shot at re-election while …

First I will cede putting my own spin on the Bush-era mantra of progressive bloggers “proud member of the reality based community,” and let Talking Points Memo founder Josh …

This week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another smash success. The assignment this week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (retired.military) – Chris Matthews, …

. . . here are a few stories from below the fold.  (May Doug forgive me. 🙂 ) What Were They Thinking? – The G.I. Issue From an August …

The Atlantic illicitly portrayed GOP House Speaker John Bohner as saying that he “said out loud he hopes blacks and Latinos ‘won’t show up’ this election,” but a look …

From the mouths of babes, huh?  Well, not babes in the literal sense.  Nor physical sense.  I don’t know in what sense at all, actually.  What do you want …

By now, everyone has heard and seen Obama’s response to Clint Eastwood’s empty chair bit at the Republican National Convention Thursday night. For those who haven’t seen Obama’s witty retort, …

I’ve been giving updates on the mounting death toll in Chicago for months now. Not a lot of attention has been given to the deaths and injured there and …

Barack Obama’s fellow Democrats may be running away from him as fast as possible, especially those up for re-election, but there’s one demographic he’s cleaning up in – washed …

In our new media era where everything said, thought, or alluded to is “racist,” we can now add the word “Chicago” to that growing-by-the-minute list of words that are …