Obama may have entered the White House with the intention of assembling a Lincolnesque “team of rivals,” but Summers subverted that notion by making himself chief packager and gatekeeper for any dissenting arguments about economic policy—all, he claimed, to spare the President from meeting with “long-winded people.” Lincoln’s “team of rivals” reported directly to Lincoln, [...]

From The Huffington Post
By Stephen Gyllenhaal
As I sit on the set of GrassRoots – our comedy about a small City Council race in Seattle back in 2001 – there are so many images that float through my mind. The extras getting ready, sure. The crew setting up the lights and our RED camera (some of [...]

July 4th. A day off from work. It’s been a packed stretch of time for me and I feel like I haven’t been here on my site enough (a site I love). I’ve been almost nowhere enough, except on the set where I’ve really gotten to play and do what I believe in most.
I’m grateful [...]

From democracynow.org
Just under a year ago Dr. Binayak Sen, India’s most famous political prisoner, was released on bail after 2 years of imprisonment. Dr. Sen is a world-renowned “physician of the poor,” winner of the 2008 Jonathan Mann award for global health and human rights, and Vice President of India’s oldest civil liberties organization the [...]

By Desmond Tutu

I am saddened today at the prospect of a young Hispanic immigrant in Arizona going to the grocery store and forgetting to bring her passport and immigration documents with her. I cannot be dispassionate about the fact that the very act of her being in the grocery store will [...]

I completely understood (pretty much) all my friends when they explained to me (around the Wall Street and Banking bailout led by the Goldman Sachs people running the government under the newly elected Obama) that Obama had no choice but to spend those taxpayer’s trillions. They made it clear that it was because the financial [...]

I’m having trouble with the concept of human nature today. There is a general sense that I keep getting that at its core human nature is really pretty screwed up. You could call it original sin or the death instinct (ala Freud). You can look at yourself and say, “Boy, I’m really self destructive.” (God [...]

Coat Maker Transforms Obama Photo Into Ad
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: January 6, 2010
A garment company in New York known for publicity stunts has seized the attention of the Obama administration.
The Weatherproof Garment Company installed a billboard in Times Square on Wednesday showing President Obama wearing what appears to be one of its coats. The image, [...]

“Our Representatives are struggling hard with this Health Care Issue.”
That’s a lie.
Every single Right Wing Senator whole-heartedly supports single payer Health Care coverage wholly paid for by the Federal Government because he has it. His whole family has it. Obama has it. Dick Cheney has it. All the moderates who struggle with where to position [...]