Well, that didn’t take long did it? In its own best traditions, the Nevada Democratic Party folded and has formally cancelled the presidential candidates’ debate it had scheduled in Reno this coming August. The Nevada Dems backed down after a feverish web campaign by the Kossacks who were outraged that the debate, which was to [...]

Here’s my piece in today’s Los Angeles Times’ Sunday commentary section on the current proposals to expand legalized Indian gambling in California. A bad idea. It’s all about political cash — not social justice.

Here’s a brilliant column from the WaPo’s Dana Milbank. Taking Hillary’s stump rhetoric and translating it into simple back-and-white text starkly reveals the absolute banality of our current public discourse. ——- +—– While we’re on the subject of language and politics… I see nothing particularly positive in the dropping of Ann Coulter’s syndicated column by [...]

It would be an overstatement to affirm that the House Democrats have actually stood up firmly against Bush and his Iraq war policy. It’s more like they at least started squirming in their seats. After weeks of internal party wrangling, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her allies have put forward their latest plan. It’s complicated and [...]

Thursday morning at Noon (PST) I’ll once again be guest-hosting the national public radio news magazine To The Point. You can listen here or here in So Cal here it live on 89.9 FM. The topic: GW Bush’s trip this week to South America. The overwhelming consensus around that junket is already in before it [...]

The ongoing implosion of the Bush administration is making it very hard for us newshounds keep pace. Which tail do you chase first? The Libby conviction and its implications for Dick Cheney? The mounting horror stories coming from VA hospitals nationwide? Or the political massacre of no longer useful Bush-appointed federal prosecutors? Let’s chew on [...]

Here’s the draft of my L.A. Weekly column this week: Thanks to the work of Washington Post reporter Dana Priest and federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, we now have a pretty pair of bookends for the war in Iraq. The Post has revealed just exactly what happens to the young, wounded and maimed soldiers after they [...]

You can make sure that Ann Coulter’s book sales are experiencing a recent spike. She did what she always does, this time calling John Edwards a “faggot,” and all of a sudden she starts nudging Anna Nicole’s corpse out of the news. As usual, way too many folks who ought to know better have played [...]

We had to spend six hours on the highways Sunday evening driving back from a weekend getaway and we burned the time by listening to both Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s speeches in Selma on XM radio. Pretty remarkable stuff — and none of it very encouraging. Indeed, the rank political opportunism shown by all [...]

The continuing gyrations of the Congressional Democrats are enough to make anyone’s head spin, if not provoke a general bout of nausea. What makes it so hard for these creatures to just simply say the war in Iraq has failed and it’s time for an orderly and expedited withdrawal linked to a regional diplomatic offensive. [...]