At over 350 small coffee shops across the country today, Americans are witnessing the birth of a new movement. It's not Democrat or Republican, it's not progressive or conservative, it's not young or old. It's not about issues so much as a new way of seeing politics. It's not even the Coffee Party (full disclosure: I am a lifelong tea drinker); as someone said this morning, "We're the Coffee, Tea and We Party."
I attended the first organizing event of the nascent Coffee Party at an ungodly hour of a rainy morning in the welcoming Busboys & Poets coffeeshop in downtown Washington, DC. I had persuaded my friend Mary Panke to go with me, believing in her ability to think positive thoughts and to see creative solutions in every issue. I attended mostly out of curiousity and the cynical fear that the Coffee Party was attempting to copy the Tea Party's tactics.
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March 13, 2010
Why I Filed to Run for U.S. Senate
Today, I filed papers to become a candidate for the United States Senate.
I have no special beef with the incumbent, Senator Boxer. She is a state-of-the-art Democrat. But to be "state-of-the-art" in our party is not such a good thing anymore.
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I have no special beef with the incumbent, Senator Boxer. She is a state-of-the-art Democrat. But to be "state-of-the-art" in our party is not such a good thing anymore.
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March 12, 2010
The Dalai Lama’s Message and Youth Who Enable it
International Campaign for Tibet summed up the Dalai Lama's March 10 address:
His Holiness the Dalai Lama today delivered his annual March 10 statement to the Tibetan people from Dharamsala, India, stressing openness, transparency and the free flow of information within China as the means for building greater understanding of the true situation in Tibet and greater trust between the Tibetan and Chinese peoples, and among Tibetans themselves.
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Tiger Woods, Wife Were Suspected Of Domestic Violence
The Florida Highway Patrol released new documents about Tiger Woods' post-Thanksgiving car crash today. Perhaps the biggest revelation from the new files is that paramedics denied Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren (PHOTOS), access to the ambulance because a domestic violence incident was suspected:
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As the paramedics loaded [Woods] into a Health Central Ambulence one of the crew stated that [Woods'] wife could not go in ambulance because this was a domestic.
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Former Cheney Advisor Talks New Newsite, The Daily Caller
In today's 2nd Anniversary Show, Wilshire & Washington asks: How can an online news organization succeed, both financially and journalistically, in this modern internet era? That's the question that The Daily Caller is attempting to answer, launching in January 2010 and co-founded by longtime newsman (and bowtie aficionado) Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel, former Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney. Patel, the site's publisher, joins us to discuss The Daily Caller's business and news model: How will they be doing original reporting, and how will they be covering the 2010 election? How will they separate news, opinion, and citizen journalists, and how much will they be using freelancers? How will they make money in the struggling news business, and how will they be using web video in the near future? And why call the site The Daily Caller?
We also talk the Congressman Eric Massa saga, and the media criticism that has followed, especially from Congressman Patrick Kennedy. Is this a genuine news story or is it as overblown as Kennedy suggests? Massa's interview on Glenn Beck's show was a stunning bit of television, where expectations for a partisan turncoat turned out to be false hope for Beck. Will this whole story harm the Democrats, and can we expect Massa on The Apprentice with Donald Trump in the next year?
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We also talk the Congressman Eric Massa saga, and the media criticism that has followed, especially from Congressman Patrick Kennedy. Is this a genuine news story or is it as overblown as Kennedy suggests? Massa's interview on Glenn Beck's show was a stunning bit of television, where expectations for a partisan turncoat turned out to be false hope for Beck. Will this whole story harm the Democrats, and can we expect Massa on The Apprentice with Donald Trump in the next year?
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March 11, 2010
Arianna & Dennis Santiago Discuss Move Your Money Campaign On Radio Show “AirTalk” (AUDIO)
Arianna and Dennis Santiago were guests on the Southern California Public Radio program "AirTalk" today to discuss the Move Your Money campaign, a growing movement to punish and hold big banks accountable for their irresponsible and damaging practices.
Listen to the interview below.
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Listen to the interview below.
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Biden to Israelis: You Are Endangering Our Troops
Laura Rozen in Politico reports on a story appearing today in Israel.
It is about the effect that Prime Minister Netanyahu's announcement of new West Bank settlements -- during Vice President Biden's visit -- could do to the United States. It is written by a top Israeli journalist, Shimon Shiffer, in the conservative Yedioth Achronoth, the largest circulation newspaper in Israel..
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It is about the effect that Prime Minister Netanyahu's announcement of new West Bank settlements -- during Vice President Biden's visit -- could do to the United States. It is written by a top Israeli journalist, Shimon Shiffer, in the conservative Yedioth Achronoth, the largest circulation newspaper in Israel..
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Why Caddell’s Wrong — Passing The Bill Will Help Democrats
he editorial's written by Patrick Caddell, described as a "political commentator and former pollster," and Douglas E. Schoen. Caddell and Schoen play the "pollsters to the past two Democratic presidents" card prominently, but here's what they don't tell you: Schoen's been on a third-party kick since he wrote a paean to centrism called Declaring Independence: The Beginning of the End of the Two-Party System. And Caddell's a "commentator," all right: he's now a right-leaning Fox News regular. There's plenty of YouTube video of Caddell clucking tongues with Glenn Beck over Van Jones' "violent past," or whatever the right-wing outrage of the day happens to be.
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