Can it happen here?

In much of this country's life, our oligarchs have schemed to erase and succeeded in discounting any skills or expertise their lower pa...

Drowning in presidential polls? Here's another way of looking at this endless election. Since last January I've been capturing snap ...

Outside a rear window, there's a mewing … someone shows himself.. Moments later, another curious visitor. Down the street, survey...

A liberal lesbian, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin , appears to be on her way to beating former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson in a race ...

has some of the best ads around. They also have posted this highly authentic example of the best of what happens when you canvass for som...

A couple of years ago, a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey surprised some by declaring that atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mor...

But wait a minute .. aren't there still 43 days until election day? Well yes, but half the states have begun collecting absentee ballo...

The best moment was when Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed into the seats to greet party stalwart Jane Morrison. As Morrison pushes into her ...

This weekend the Bay Area Rapid Transit system that I ride every day celebrates its 40th year of operation. Naturally there's a slick c...

One year ago, the state of Georgia executed Troy Davis who died still proclaiming his innocence. Well, first of all I'd like to address...

If you thought I was stretching when I tied Mitt Romney's contempt for 47% of us to Republican efforts to suppress the vote -- here...

You've probably seen it, but here it is. So Mitt Romney has been caught out peddling "a country-club fantasy" to dimwitted ...

There is something we can do about the Republicans contempt for 47% of us. These folks have an idea. Nice.

This 1972 ad for another Republican, that one a sitting President, accuses Democrats of intending to create a parasitic class of welfare ch...

I'm not watching as much pro football as I might if this were not a hot and heavy election season. But when I do catch a snippet, I fin...

It's been a full year since the understanding that it is most all of us versus the one percent took the nation by storm. However littl...

Bishop Yvette Flunder welcomes NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous to City of Refuge United Church of Christ , San Francisco. The Preside...

If anyone who comes by here is still wondering why I am working to pass Prop. 34 -- the California initiative to replace the death penalty w...

Someone on 24th Street thinks these posts need them. Obviously there are knitters at work.

This moonscape outside Albuquerque echoed my mood -- chilly and barren -- the morning after the 2004 election. George W. Bush had carried ...