Blog Archive: April, 2008

• USA Today and AOL team up for a useful overview of the latest E. more »

One journalist makes clear what McCain's health plan would really do. Will others follow? more »

Since you probably didn't find much substantive analysis of McCain's health care plan in the traditional media, bloggers have taken up the task. And it isn't pretty. more »

Jeremiah Wright is everywhere this week -- and the media doesn't quite know what to make of it. Mostly, they're stuck so hard in the election horse-race narrative that they only question they can think to ask is: Does having Wright out there hurt Obama, or help him? more »

Roger Hickey has a great post on the "dangerous fraud" that is John McCain's healthcare plan. more »

McCain's claims his health plan provides "choice," when in fact, the only choices would be bad ones. more »

My column last week criticizes ABC's Charlie Gibson for using his position as debate moderator to focus the presidential discourse on the supposed unfairness of asking very wealthy people to pay the same tax rate on their stock profits as their servants pay on hard earned wages. more »

The guilt-by-association standard hurts our politics, no matter who you support. more »

It's easy to say "things like that don't happen any more." But we all know better. I was raised on it, and even when my father reminded me that I — as a black male — would not be treated the same as a white male my age, I knew enough not to even try to say he was wrong. He wasn't wrong then, and he isn't wrong now. And if the day comes when I must have the same conversation with one of my sons that my father had with me that day, will I be wrong? Will that marrow-deep intuition — that knowing — finally be wrong? more »

It's early, but here's my nomination for Coveted Big Con Of The Week!™

Petition signatures are just about due for Ward Connelly's anti-affirmative action initiative in Missouri.

And guess what? Ward's cheating.

From the Rocky Mountain News more »