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I'm happy to announce that Neil Aquino, well known to all of us as Texas Liberal, is joining our merry band of bloggers here at TDH.  He has his own blog, and is also widely read on the Houston Chronicle at chron.com.  He will add yet another voice and perspective on local, Texas, and national politics in his own style, which will hopefully enrich your reading and commenting experience.Please join me in welcoming Neil.Jefe...

The kooks at Right Wing News solicited the opinion of more than100 of their fellow kooks "conservative" bloggers on the 25 worst people in American history. Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and FDR were 1, 2, and 3, ahead of Benedict Arnold, Timothy McVeigh, and John Wilkes Booth. Here's the entire list and the number of votes each received from the 43 blogs that responded:23) Saul Alinsky (7)23) Bill Clinton (7)23) Hillary Clinton (7)19) Michael Moore...

When the  cubs thought Mama Grizzly Sarah was under attack from that no good "lamestream media" again yesterday after this video surfaced  of the former governor's encounter with fellow Alaskan Kathleen Gustafson during the filming of Palin's TLC reality show, Sarah Palin's Duh-laska, they went on the attack:     The headline (since scrubbed) at Gateway Pundit screamed "THAT WAS NO TEACHER: Unhinged Leftist Who Confronted Palin is a Singer in a Drag Queen Band."...

Take this paragraph from Andy McCarthy's essay on fear, paranoia, and religious bigotry at National Review Online, substitute the word "communists" for "Islamists" and it sounds like something from another McCarthy at another ugly time in our history:"Most of the American people are in a much different place. They see Islamists advancing, they are beginning to grasp that Islamists (not just terrorists but the whole Islamist movement) mean to change us in very fundamental ways,...

The rabid right obviously learned nothing from the Shirley Sherrod story. That taking information from questionable (to be kind) sources and running with it without verification leaves a lot of egg on a lot of faces. The latest evidence came yesterday when Dan Amato at Digger's Realm "broke" the story about members of a  Mexican drug cartel supposedly crossing the border and "taking over at least 2 ranches in the Laredo, Texas area." Accompanying the...

Really. Desperado has already discussed the Sherrod incident here, shared excellent commentary here and here, so I won't rehash the whole mess.  You know what happened. But it's ok, really, it's not the right-wing media's fault, you see.  According to Ann Coulter, Breitbart was set-up by evil liberals.  The whole key to this story is that Andrew Breitbart was set-up. He was sent a tape as we now know was massively out of context. It didn't look...

This is what President Obama's critics have been reduced to-George Will yesterday on This Week saying the president is "being unfairly blamed" for his response to the Deepwater Horizon fiasco, but on the other hand "it sort of serves him right." From Media Matters:I used to have some degree of respect for George Will. He was one of the few remaining voices on the right who, on occasion, made some reasonable, rational arguments. Now he's...

(Warning: While the following is somewhat connected to politics, it is in reality nothing more than a convenient excuse for an admittedly superficial male to post a photo of a beautiful (and I mean bee-yoo-ti-ful) young woman in a swimsuit. If that type of thing offends you, please stop here and do not scroll down). There is some controversy from some of the usual suspects on the far-right surrounding the crowning of Rima Fakih, Miss...

If you will forgive me my indulgences, I want to talk to you about the complications I have had in my brief career of writing books. Every writer great and small has dreams of making the NYT best-sellers list. Those dreams are fainting dreams that become a realistic dream of making a few bucks. I just wanted enough to buy my wife and I the occasional treat. As it turns out, the treat has been the...

Our friend, JC, from Chicago, has agreed to contribute this piece for us.  JC worked with Obama for America in Arizona in 2008. I feel it important that I introduce myself by scolding America. No offense meant, but I think we're past time for it. Politics in America has dissolved into a spectacle of posturing and theater that would make Vince McMahon say "Guys, tone it down a little, okay?" even as his own wife seeks...