Daily Democrat

Sorry to have been absent from the blog for so long. My parents are both terminally ill and I have had my hands full caring for them, even w...

From Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish - a reader comment and the best rationale for the liberal point of view, and indirect critique of the ...

Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan came along and was seen by a majority of the American people as an authentic and original politician (even th...

There is a true story I like to tell that is a perfect metaphor for Republican behavior. When I was a teenager we lived next door to a coupl...

Nobody says it better than Bob Herbert : It’s been clear for years that the G.O.P. is a party without a heart. But its pointless obstruction...

Why aren't those hypocritical republican lawmakers and party members screaming their heads off about this insane woman who just gave bir...

This morning on Morning Joke they were doing it again - bashing Obama for not being able to get a (Republican approved) stimulus plan passed...

One glorious day! One day of triumph and hope and new beginnings. Does it make up for eight years of hell? Was the suffering, death, trashin...

It is a time of hope and history, and the disgraced and vanquished Republicans want to be part of it. And so two nights ago when Barack brok...

When in the company of conservative Republicans I often hear the refrain that Barack Obama is going to raise their taxes. Raising taxes, of...