By Hank Stram, June 2008
Don’t it Make My Red States Blue?
Amid the chaos surrounding the 2008 elections, the media has underplayed some very positive news for Democrats. So far there have been three special elections to fill vacated congressional seats. The first of these was a contest to replace former Speaker of the House and heart-attack-in-waiting Denny Hastert’s seat in Illinois’s 14th congressional district.
By Hank Stram, May 2008
Lost in the discussion of how successful the glorious Surge has been is a serious examination of life in an occupied country from the perspective of the occupied. Regardless of our perception that pre-invasion Iraq was a lawless failed state with no functioning institutions, it really wasn’t.
By Hank Stram, April 2008
It’s more than a little amusing watching the Republicans and their big-media surrogates feign bewilderment that some of us find it creepy that they insist on using the appellation Barack Hussein Obama. “What’s the problem?” they ask. “His middle name is Hussein. Why shouldn’t we use his middle name?”
