by Brian Dockstader | Feb 5, 2010 | Blog
by Brian Dockstader | Jan 12, 2010 | Blog
When Sen. Arlen Specter switched from the GOP to the Democratic Party early last year, citing the Republican Party's extreme shift to the far-right in recent years, many progressives found themselves in mixed emotions. First, there was a sense of happiness, as the...
by Brian Dockstader | Jan 8, 2010 | Blog, Economy
I generally try to avoid watching political talk shows on TV because the lack of journalism is, much more often than not, infuriating. That wasn't exactly the case the other night on Hardball, however. During a segment with Todd Harris, a Republican strategist, and...
by Brian Dockstader | Oct 7, 2009 | Blog
A few weeks ago I wrote about the brazen hypocrisy with which conservatives in Congress met the revelation that a handful of ACORN employees gave stupid advice to two conservative operatives attempting to provoke them into saying just such stupid things. While...
by Brian Dockstader | Oct 1, 2009 | Blog
We have long known that conservatives in Congress are hopelessly out of touch with both reality and the American people. So while it represented nothing new, House Minority Leader John Boehner's (R-OH) recent comments on health insurance reform made me do a double...