Huckabee's candor
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Huckabee was even blunter on Fox today than he was in my chat with him
earlier this month on the calculation the man who polls first for the GOP
nom
Veal Pen: Report from Academia
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Large single issue organizations are dependent on grants from huge
foundations and other wealthy donors. They can ignore the concerns of their
small donors...
Book review: Barbara Ehrenreich's "Bright-Sided"
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Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has
Undermined America
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt: New York
H...
Healthy Lifestyles Lead to Good Health
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Melanie Warner has a piece in the NYT about companies looking to reduce
their health care costs by engineering healthier cafeteria items for their
employee...
Should she out her gay friend?
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Interesting question from Ask Amy:
I was recently involved in a community volunteer event that lasted a couple
of months.
During that time, I became frien...
Political Clash Expected Over Rising National Debt
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McClatchy Newspapers notes that a vote to raise the ceiling on the national
debt -- which now exceeds $12 trillion -- "will come just as Congress tries
to ...
Sunday Roundup
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* There are lots of things to tweak Sarah Palin for, but the fact that she
dropped out of a 5K Turkey Trot charity race in order to avoid crowds at the
end...
State Losing Jobs That Obama Could Lose
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Charles Franklin, political scientist at the University of Wisconsin, recently
published a useful graphic depicting post-2001 trends and current
unemployme...