I still hate to keep focusing on the conservatives, but as I’ve said before, the material just keeps coming. John McCain had to brand himself as the true conservative candidate at CPAC today, and boy, did he try. His speech reads like an extended mission statement for the conservative movement. I only bring this up […]
In a piece about the presidential primaries at Talking Points Memo, Jim Sleeper writes the following: Two great American crosscurrents — of liberal communal provision, without which conservative individuality can’t flourish, and of conservative personal responsibility, without which even the best liberal social engineering produces clients, cogs, or worse – can converge only if John […]
As I’ve mentioned at times before, there are really two reasons I decided to leave the safe harbor of “objective”, mainstream journalism and begin to actively explore and support the progressive movement. One, I was horrified at the direction the conservative movement took the nation under the Bush administration. I felt I had to stand […]
I probably should have written this post awhile ago, but it might still be useful in the general election. The coverage I’ve seen so far in the presidential race has been exactly backward. This first struck me the other day during the Democratic debate in California. From scanning the CNN transcript, the topics covered were […]
Last night I actually bothered to watch the Democratic debate. Often times I just rely on the reports, but next week I actually get to vote, so I thought it was high time to check in. I thought both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did very well, and I’m still undecided. But for this post, […]
Bill Poorman 