WAR SUPPORTERS, OPPONENTS CLASH IN COMMENTS SECTION
The war is won. Terrorists watch American TV. We’re in it for oil. Supporting the troops  means questioning your government. Terrorists gain strength every time you compain about Iraq. This, and much, much more (52 comments, most of them quite thoughtful) in the comments section to our post of [...]

Furutani for State Assembly, Randy Gordon vs. Michael Ellis gather, expel steam
Maybe it’s not quite accurate to call 55th Assembly District candidate Warren Furutani’s campaign a juggernaut–after all, this time last year he ran exactly the same race against then-Sixth District Councilwoman Laura Richardson and was sent packing. (That was a juggernaut.)

I get text messages from John Edwards about once a week thanks to Twitter, the (probably) doomed to extinction micro-blogging service. Without the inclination to stop the messages, I’m doomed to get more of these, probably exponentially more as the primaries loom. About six months ago, when I first joined Twitter, subscribing to Edwards’ blog [...]

Congressing is hard work
The Democratic takeover of Congress hasn’t exactly gone as supporters hoped. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have explained that they have not been able to fulfill all their promises, because of implacable Republican opposition. Fair enough. But there was one promise that no amount Republican opposition could [...]

Remembering Reagan
The rather saccharine pieties of the rightwing cult of Ronald Reagan have been polluting most media considerations of the low-wattage movie star turned politician since he died. But today in his LA Times column, George Skelton reminds us what the old boy was like in real life.

Zombie assault on the Electoral College
Halloween is hard upon us, so perhaps it’s only fitting that something once believed dead is reported to have risen from the grave.  Unfortunately, the zombie in question is nothing so fragrant as a rotting corpse– it’s the ballot initiative to split California’s electoral college votes.