We would like to welcome BraveCitizen to our list of writers. Treat her nice, this is her first foray into the blogasphere. She has a great passion for all things progressive and we feel honored that she will be writing with us.

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TRAIL BLAZERS Blog | The Dallas Morning News
At the Republican state convention, a booth hosted by Republicanmarket was selling a pin Saturday that says: If Obama is President will we still call it the White House.

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Just in case you haven’t received your tax rebate yet.
Where’s My Tax Rebate, Uncle Sam? – Yahoo! News
I used TurboTax desktop software to do my 2007 taxes. I filed online in mid-April, and I opted to have my federal and state refunds deposited directly into my checking account. Like many Americans, I’ve also been waiting [...]

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The weirdest thing just happened to me on 410 near Broadway where they have traffic cuts down to one lane. Traffic is stop and go of course and right after they shut down the 2nd lane there was a constable standing there with a radar gun. Now, there is no way anyone was going more [...]

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Depressing Interesting article on the Democratic candidates, their campaigns, and historical comparisons.
The haunting of the Democrats | Salon
This intra-Democratic conflict is profound and epistemological. It speaks to deeply divergent ideas about the nature of politics, of America and indeed of human life. It dwarfs the so-called divisions in the Republican Party, which always seem miraculously [...]

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Happy Easter everyone, enjoy your family and the wonderful food and of course the CHOCOLATE.

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More on the South Side rezoning issue:
MySA.com: Editorials

Councilwoman Diane Cibrian is launching an effort to permanently add protection against similar mistakes in the future, and other council members are discussing preventive measures as well.
Cibrian wants an ordinance requiring that council be informed of any zoning decision impacting even nonbinding agreements and possibly an additional hearing.

Uhmmm, [...]

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I like reading some of the advice columns in the newspaper. Often, it’s the fact that someone even asked the question that is more interesting/useful than the answer.  There’s one today in the Dr. Joyce Brothers column. A group of suburban moms want to know what to do about the new family that move into [...]

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Recently I got to listen to a group of Huckabee supporters comment on the current candidates for President. One person said that McCain has an 86% approval rating by some politically conservative group but in the past two years he had the same rating as Clinton. Therefore, McCain is a liberal.
At the time I thought [...]

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In years past it was easy to complain about how difficult it was to distinguish between candidates since so little information was provided by the press. The truly dedicated could have probably called a campaign and receive literature in the mail but I suspect most simply went by whatever they heard on the news.
With the [...]

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