Blood, The Debt Limit and Discretionary Spending

In this morning’s NY Times Opinion Pages, Op-Ed columnist and economist Paul Krugman brings up the topic of newly appointed co-chairman of the deficit commission and former Republican Senator Alan Simpson’s oddly sadistic remarks regarding the pending spring showdown over the debt limit. So...

The People of Detroit

Some time during the 216 days of my failed 365 Project I came across a photographer on Flickr whose own project inspired me. His name is Noah Stephens and his project, which has it’s own blog, is called The People of Detroit. His photographs are classic portraits of real people taken almost entirely...

Discovery Friday #2: The Politics Daily

I am committed to bringing you something new and worth reading every Friday in this weekly feature I’m calling Discovery Friday. My selection today is a bit unorthodox as it is not a blog but rather a paper.li Twitter newspaper. If you have never come across one of these you are missing out. Basically...

Meet the New Comments from Left Field

As you can see, I launched a new look for Comments from Left Field today. The change was brought about by both my endless need for something new and shiny as well as the desire to make the site more user friendly. I want to thank Terry from Positively Barack for helping me out with the sidebar stuff and...

Good Luck With That

Sens. Jack Reed and Bob Casey (of Oregon and Pennsylvania, respectively), want to extend unemployment benefits for a year when they expire at the end of November. Admirable, if quixotic: Getting jobless benefits passed in the lame duck session is going to be a tough road. Congress has always passed...