Great news!
All three activists who were detained by the Beijing police have been released after two hours of questioning. They have arrived safely in Hong Kong (I’m talking with them on a conference call now) and are currently handling media requests.
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the early press and blog coverage of the […]

Vastleft of CorrenteWire has a cutting rundown of Barack Obama’s Democratic flagellation earlier this week. I hadn’t had a chance to read up on it during my travels and this post is just about all you need to know (though Pachacutec and Stoller have some gems too).
How dare you suggest that your religiosity gives you […]

Stephen Colbert takes some swipes at the press:
Superman, he said, went so far as to hide his identity “by disguising himself as the farthest thing from a hero — a newspaper reporter.” He could have broken the story of his own identity at any time, won headlines and maybe a Pulitzer, but no, he wanted […]

Hong Kong – Tibet activists scaled the façade of Beijing’s Central Railway Station and unfurled a banner reading “China’s Tibet Railway: Designed to Destroy.” The protest was held on the eve of the launch of the new rail line that will link, for the first time, Beijing and Lhasa. Tibetans fear that the Chinese Government […]

The Unitary Executive theory of presidential power took a mighty hit today when the Supreme Court ruled that the president has been violating federal law and US treaty obligations since he unilaterally decided to use military tribunals to prosecute people captured in the war on terror. The 5-3 decision (Roberts abstaining since he was […]

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On July 1st China will officially launch the China-Tibet railway, connecting Lhasa to Beijing for the first time by rail. Students for a Free Tibet and countless other Tibet support groups have worked hard to oppose the construction of this line and Bombardier’s delivery of luxury rail cars. Now that we’re approaching China’s Tibet […]

As Austin noted, Peter Daou recently been hired by Hillary Clinton as her web and blog consultant. Daou is one of the liberal America’s leading minds on Democratic messaging and strategy, a progressive to the core. It’s more than a little disconcerting to watch someone who I consider to be one of the blogosphere’s greatest […]

So I’m back from Germany. Free Tibet! Action Camp ended on Monday. Unfortunately for my vacation, other work stuff came up that required me to come back to NYC five days early. I’ve been up for about 24 hours and have to get an early start tomorrow.
The work situation that brought me home early […]

The incredible book, Master of the Senate, describes how LBJ successfully bent the Senate to his will during his tenure in its chambers. He was a senatorial stud, if you will.
Now, no one would confuse Bush for an effective president. As Josh Marshall pointed out some time ago, Bush has yet to have […]

Peter Daou has joined Hillary Clinton as her blog advisor.
Clinton has been attacked frequently by the liberal blogosphere for her centrism and constant recalibrations on policy. She has reached out to Daou to help her connect with the netroots, or perhaps more accurately, convince the netroots that she is worthy of their positive attention.
What […]