Excuses sound hollow when you’re trapped in a flimsy trailer. For Gulf Coast residents waiting for long-promised government housing assistance, patience has given way to anger, and anguish. What is clear more than a year after Hurricane Katrina is that their needs — and the demand for action from the American public — have largely [...]

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It is nice to read something on the Op-Ed pages at the WSJ that I can agree with for a change. Looks like the new Senator from Virginia has a way with telling it like it is… 
The most important–and unfortunately the least debated–issue in politics today is our society’s steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which [...]

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She was the last of the Blue Governors from the Great State of Texas. Bush and Rove lied her out of office. Now the whole country knows what it’s like to live in Texas.
AUSTIN — A downtown bridge famous for political marches, parades and a bat colony will soon bear the name of the [...]

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Today’s emails brought the following:
On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don’t yet seem to have gotten past denial.
Republicans may have lost, conservatives argue, but only because they misplaced their ideology. “[T]hey were punished not for pursuing but for forgetting conservatism,” George F. Will, conservatism’s most trenchant champion, wrote on this page last [...]

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