D.R. Tucker

Earlier, we mentioned Martha Coakley’s political comeback after losing a January 2010 special US Senate election to Scott Brown. The winner of that notorious election, who lost his seat to Elizabeth Warren two years ago, seems to be making something of a comeback as well: The New Hampshire Senate race is tightening, according to a […]

You may recall the May 2004 controversy over Bill Cosby’s so-called “Pound Cake speech,” also referred to in some quarters as the “Ghettosburg Address,” in which Cosby attacked what he regarded as the dynamics of dysfunction in black America. There’s a part of the speech that is profoundly difficult to even read, in light of […]

As Brother Benen noted yesterday on the Maddow Blog, a new Boston Globe poll shows Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley maintaining a lead in the state’s gubernatorial race. Coakley, who lost a high-profile special US Senate election to Scott Brown in January 2010, overcame that setback and is now effectively making the case that she […]

On August 23, 2008, Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour commenced in Cardiff, Wales. The tour featured a video segment entitled “Get Stupid,” in which Madonna condemned the role hyper-consumerism played in fueling the climate crisis, and the scourge of right-wing political extremism as represented by such figures as Mike Huckabee and John McCain.

Two thumbs up to Bob Schieffer for his tremendous interview on Face the Nation today with Bob Woodward and Carl Benstein, marking the 40th anniversary of the end of the Nixon Administration. At the outset, Schieffer noted: I think one reason it took awhile for people to figure out that this was really serious [is […]

Considering the intellectual degeneration of the right over the years, I don’t quite understand why Think Progress runs the “Three Things Conservatives Wrote This Week [In Crayon] That Everyone Should Read” series. However, if there’s one thing that should be read, it’s the words coming from the offices of National Review…and those words are, “Help, […]

Why do the Sunday news shows feature so much John McCain? He’s on those shows so freakin’ much, it’s driving me insane! All that he ever talks about is fighting one more war, Even though we don’t have one clue just what we’re fighting for. CNN’s Candy Crowley finally gave us one reason Why McCain […]

Those of us who remember the affirmative action wars of the 1990s aren’t surprised when some right-winger suggests that Democrats are anti-white: such rhetoric was commonplace among vehement opponents of affirmative action, who often accused Democratic supporters of the policy of trying to disadvantage Caucasians (for example, the late National Review writer and libertarian talk-radio […]

The Boston Globe notes that despite its obvious economic and moral merits, there are certain individuals who haven’t–yet?–embraced the idea of putting a price on carbon through a revenue-neutral carbon tax or, more precisely, a rebated carbon fee: What if you just returned all the carbon tax money to the economy? The revenue could be […]

Today is a secular holiday for right-wingers: it’s the 30th anniversary of the release of the John Milius propaganda film Red Dawn. I saw the film in 2007 and thought it was cheesier than Domino’s; I can understand why the Sean Hannitys of the world would love it, but I couldn’t understand why more intelligent […]