Feingold’s Folly? Feingold’s Folly?
I admit to great ambivalence over Senator Russ Feingold's flagging effort to officially censure President Bush. The same sort of ambivalence I felt when he voted – a few year...
Mar 14, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Exit Katharine Harris? Exit Katharine Harris?
Republican insiders always knew it would be a major mistake to pin their hopes for unseating Florida Senator Bill Nelson, a supposedly vulnerable Democrat, on one of the most bizar...
Mar 13, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
A Subversive Southerner Passes A Subversive Southerner Passes
On Monday, March 6, when Anne Braden died, the South lost one of its most dedicated, courageous and feisty fighters for racial justice, civil liberties and economic rights. I met ...
Mar 12, 2006 / Lived History / Adam Howard
Vermont Paper Embraces Impeachment Push Vermont Paper Embraces Impeachment Push
When five Vermont towns voted for resolutions urging Congress to impeach President Bush, there were many in the media who dismissed the move as purely symbolic. But the local daily...
Mar 10, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Could This Unleash an Unintended Nuclear War? Could This Unleash an Unintended Nuclear War?
Ann Tyson reports in the Washington Post yesterday that the Pentagon wants $500 million to convert 24 Trident missiles currently armed with nuclear warheads into rockets carrying c...
Mar 9, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Dems Punking On Border Debate Dems Punking On Border Debate
Let's extend the discussion we're having here on immigration reform another round or so. Below this post you can read of my colleague Sam Graham-Felsen's hopes for the much-needed ...
Mar 9, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Messing With DeLay Messing With DeLay
Well, maybe you can mess with Texas. Scandal-plagued former House Minority Leader Tom DeLay, whose career in Congress imploded after he was indicted for scheming to warp homestate ...
Mar 8, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Looking for Votes in All The Wrong Places (continued) Looking for Votes in All The Wrong Places (continued)
Two weeks after I wrote about the North Carolina Republican Party's dubious effort to collect church membership directories, the IRS issued a report revealing that 37 of 47 churche...
Mar 7, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
Specter’s Spectre Specter’s Spectre
For the first time in two decades, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday begins debate on the way overdue issue of comprehensive immigration reform. The Senate Judiciary Committee now has u...
Mar 7, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard
As South Dakota Goes… As South Dakota Goes…
When South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signed legislation that effectively bans abortion in his state, the director of the militantly anti-choice Christian Defense Coalition announ...
Mar 7, 2006 / The Notion / Adam Howard