Commentary By Karl Frisch I grew up in Los Angeles, so the notion of living in or around snow was romantic — the thing of movies. Living in Washington, D.C., this past week has proven to be something entirely different. Don’t get me wrong, the calm quiet brought to my[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert If you don’t think there’s a media double standard that favors Republicans over Democrats, then let’s play a game of what-if. What if, in 2006, at Yearly Kos, the first annual convention of liberal bloggers and their readers, organizers shelled out $100,000 for former Vice President[Read More…]

Commentary An open letter from Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO of the NAACP: A bill to end major racial and ethnic disparities in drug sentencing is on the move in the Senate, and we need your help to pass it. You may already know that there is an enormous[Read More…]

Commentary Inside the First Amendment By Gene Policinski First Amendment Center vice president/executive director As we mark the 50th anniversary this month of a hallmark image of the civil rights era — the earliest lunch-counter sit-ins — it’s worth noting how all five freedoms in the First Amendment nurtured and[Read More…]

Commentary Sarah Palin: The gift that keeps on giving. From the Chicago Sun-Times: E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin’s role while his wife was Alaska’s governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker’s advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state[Read More…]

Commentary By Karl Frisch You’ve got to hand it to Fox News contributor Sarah Palin. After all, there aren’t many people who can make news with a single Facebook post. Her status updates are like catnip for journalists and media types. In a story detailing purported liberal criticism of White[Read More…]

Commentary By David Madland The employment figures released by the Department of Labor today show mixed news for workers. Unemployment fell to 9.7 percent in January 2010 from 10.0 percent in December 2009. Only 20,000 jobs were lost last month, and temporary employment increased, which is a harbinger of future[Read More…]

Commentary by Eric Boehlert Between the embarrassing New Orleans caper where self-described "journalist" James O’Keefe was arrested after helping infiltrate the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, Jackass-style, to the unhinged State of the Union response from elite members of the right-wing punditocracy (i.e. Obama’s an "arrogant," "fake" "jerk"), a disturbing[Read More…]

Commentary By Karl Frisch Back in September, right-wing activist James O’Keefe told Fox News host Glenn Beck that he was "willing to serve prison time" for his work. That just may happen. According to an affidavit from the FBI, O’Keefe and three others were arrested on Monday in connection with[Read More…]

Commentary By Jamison Foser You cannot caricature Sally Quinn. Don’t even try. It simply can’t be done. No matter how hard you try to exaggerate her preening self-regard and utter frivolity, she comes right along and shows herself to be worse than you could possibly imagine. Quinn — who gained[Read More…]