Hilary Rosen: Why No National Conversation on Gender?

(Tim O’Brien/Mother Jones)
Today on The Huffington Post, columnist Hilary Rosen, in a piece called “Why Do We Stick With Her?”, nudges along the conversation about sexism and gender in the presidential campaign. It’s about the only sensible comment I’ve seen yet, and really does help us all a bit.
Rosen gets the question wrong, but I [...]

Hillary & the RFK Assassination

There is one thing that every African-American has worried about since Barack Obama came on the scene: that he’ll be shot.
In fact, they were initially reluctant to support him, partly so he wouldn’t get hurt.
Newspapers wrote about this, asking whether he was “Black enough.” As if 50% Kenyan blood isn’t enough.
There were also concerns [...]

Bush’s Recession: It’s Here

Sen. Barack Obama and his adoptive parents on the Crow Reservation in South Dakota May 19.

In all the back-and-forth about the Democratic primaries, superdelegates, the convention, etc., I wonder if we’re not missing something crucial: the world economy is headed off a cliff.
Ford Motor Co. is cutting production and won’t turn a profit in the [...]

CA Supreme Court: Equal Justice, Equal Marriage

California plaintiffs Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis
Today at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, the Supreme Court of California declared that Lesbian and Gay couples have the right to marry, and that the state’s attempt to prevent them from doing so violates the most basic principle of equal justice under law.
Proposition 22 is unconstitutional.
I expect the reaction [...]

W. Va. Goes Wacky

Pocahontas County, West Virginia: almost heaven.
I am predisposed to like West Virginia. It’s largely rural; that’s a good thing. It borders Ohio, my home for many years. I’ve met a lot of guys from Wheeling, Huntington and Charleston in Gay bars in Columbus and Cincinnati; nice, fun-loving people. (It’s also a state where Gay people [...]

The Sad Demise of Hillary Clinton

It’s Mother’s Day, the Feast of Pentecost, cold and windy, five days after the Indiana primary, which Hillary Clinton won by 11,000 votes out of 1,264,456 cast.
Publishing the exact number is important, because these are individuals who made up their minds and took action; Hoosiers exerted themselves, drove or walked to the county courthouse, the [...]

Analyzing the Indiana Primary by County

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Sign I taped to my car window; it’s a PDF, so feel free to download it and print it out.

As a Hoosier I find it fascinating to look at the Indiana results county by county, knowing this state much better than the talking heads on TV. I suppose they were reasonably well-prepared, but the best [...]