Polar Regions by digby Steve Benen: It's worth noting, from time to time, the practical and ideological problems with this approach to problem solving. The parties disagree -- as they should;...

Lies My Insurance Industry Told Me by dday I know I'm heartened by the news that Democrats plan to develop a plan to communicate on health care. Who thought of that, give him or her a cookie! ...

Blanket Pardons by digby Evidently, there's talk of Bush issuing a blanket pardon to anyone involved in his torture regime before he leaves office and Salon is also reporting that there are some plans afoot in the Obama camp to initiate a broad con...

Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J...

Nothing like deploying a bunch of cops on the streets of American cities, looking for marauding African Americans to help get out the vote:...

Bill Killers by digby Jon Walker at FDL makes a very good point about the current dialog on health care reform: There is a very insidious myth right now that there is a large group of progressive leaders who want to “kill” health care reform in...

Public Opinion Option by digby David Gergen thinks the final health care bill may not pass --- because of the precipitous drop in public opinion: GERGEN:ou look at the polls almost everywhere. The last three or four weeks there's been a pretty sharp...

Dazed And Confused by digby Can someone explain what this means to me? The Dean on Democrats failing his president: The worst came in a news report of the year-end news conference held by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Asked how she would deal with...

Quick Observation by digby I was watching the George Stephanopoulos round table this morning and realized that the Villagers think the health care bill can best be sold to the public by arguing that if everybody hates it, it must be good. .

Saturday Night At The Movies Fear and loathing in New Orleans By Dennis Hartley Somewhere on the edge of the 9th Ward, the drugs began to take hold… Who could have guessed that the man who helmed art house classics like Fitzcarraldo, Woyzeckand ...