A TV news producer I met at a local political event this weekend said, “We love citizen journalists. Here’s my email address. If you get any good material, let me know.” I asked how much they paid. “We give you credit,” he said. “Your work can be seen by millions of people.” But if they [...]

Being a Democrat — or even just being not an ultra-right worker-hater — in this part of the U.S. can be lonely. But take heart. You are not alone. Here are some ordinary local people who are not only Democrats but proud of it.

PS - I made this 60 second spot with my [...]

I heard it through the Internet grapevine, so you know it’s true. It’s worse than having a nutcase preacher at your favorite church or even a known lobbyist on your election staff.
Yes, my friends, much though I hate to spread this bit of campaign smut, I believe it’s true: Barack Obama is a heterosexual!
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Being white and from So. California, I didn’t spend much of my early life thinking about the confederate flag one way or the other. Sure, that battle flag was the symbol of the Dumb Redneck, and meant that if you saw it on a pickup truck you didn’t want to follow that truck too closely [...]

It’s McCain’s idea: he and Obama travel around the country together, possibly on the same plane, and hold 10 unfiltered debates. I hope Obama takes him up on this challenge.
I went to the CNN/YouTube Republican debate in St. Petersburg, Florida, and found it to be an appalling piece of entertainment pretending to be news.
Obama [...]

Last year, when Delta stranded me for three days in Seoul, South Korea and then refused to spring for a room in NYC after they put me on a KAL flight that took me there instead of to Atlanta and then to Tampa, I should have realized that Delta was telling me they didn’t want [...]