[Hat tip to Kathy M] Liberal apologists seeking to normalize Spitzer’s behavior are forced to resort to the same lies about prostitution indulged by Dershowitz. They ignore the fact that by defending men’s right to paid sex with women, they applaud the atrocious exploitation of the same sorts of market inequalities they decry when the [...]

From Alternet: We don’t know who will carry the Democrats’ banner onto the political battlefield this fall. But we do know the kind of attack the Dems will face. The McCain campaign has little in its arsenal beyond two words: “No Surrender” — no surrender anywhere, but especially in Iraq. Its strategy is merely to [...]

The people never have been interesting to the Clintons, not in organized, confident form. They have been interesting as election props and poll numbers, and interesting as victims, atomized, whose pain could be felt, causes championed, and misery exploited. They are interesting to Bill on rope lines, as exemplars of popular adulation and individuals to [...]

Our individual lives look very different through these glasses too. Less individual, for one thing. The kind of extreme independence that derived from cheap fossil fuel—the fact that we need our neighbors for nothing at all—can’t last. Either we build real community, of the kind that lets us embrace mass transit and local food and [...]

Written last October, by Anita Hill There was a time when purchasing a home was something only married couples did. However, increasingly, single, widowed, and divorced women with and without children are making the choice to purchase a home on their own. Yet, the economic and social consequences of subprime lending practices on them are [...]

In another thread, I posted a few stats on Wall Street contributions to all three Prez front-runners; and in another we discussed how utterly vacuous all the phrase-mongering is from these campaigns (except McCain who clearly states he wants to continue the occupation of Iraq for 100 years). Black Agenda Report‘s Pam Marten has a [...]

Former Army Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Doe, who prefers that her last name remain confidential, says that after she was raped by an instructor at Fort Eustis, Va., the SARC “blew it off like it was nothing.” Jessica pressed charges anyway, but says all that came of her search for justice was “rumors, scorn and [...]

Not very long ago, as you all recall, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the 2008 election, as it was in the midterm election two years ago. However, it’s virtually disappeared off the radar screen, which has solicited some puzzlement among the punditry… FULL from Chomsky

It is like building a lean-to against a hurricane. There are certain immutable truths, for Democrats. One is the same for politics as it is for common investors: don’t try to catch a falling knife. FULL AT CP