Cal Berkeley Democrats

A Thoughtful Conservative Critique of the Obama Administration (!!!)

I know, it’s hard to believe. But contrary to what you may have presumed from constantly hearing about the hijinks of Glenn Beck, Michael Steele and Michelle “I only stopped ranting against the US Census after a census worker was murdered for doing his job in Kentucky” Bachmann, there are still serious conservatives out there [...]

Video: Budget Cuts Teach-in

Robert Reich speaks about the walkout at the teach-in! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJj7NPbrQfY For more teach-in videos, head to our YouTube page.

Budget Cuts Meeting

PVC (September 22, 2009)

Community Service in Albany

Health Care Tabling

One Step Closer to Peace in Afghanistan

Antiwar activists, foreign policy realists and fans of Woodrow Wilson’s principle of national self-determination should celebrate as the New York Times reports that many within both the Obama Administration and the military are skeptical of General Stanley McChrystal’s plan to escalate the eight-year-old war in Afghanistan with a massive new commitment of additional troops and [...]

Why the Public Option Is Central to Health Care Reform

Imagine your ideal health insurance plan. First of all, it’s there when you need it; so when you get sick, you get care. It can’t be cancelled because of a loophole. It allows you to make your own health care decisions with consultation from your doctor and no interference from insurance company bureaucrats. It won’t [...]

Nightly News Scan, 9/28/09

Sorry it’s so late today: U.S. Plans to Isolate Iran if Nuclear Talks Fail — WaPo Is Iran Designing Warheads? — NYT Pocket Docket: Supreme Court’s New Season — WSJ Summary of  health care amendments — Daily Kos Whitman pressed on past — SacBee CA-Gov: Brown Leads All Republican Hopefuls, Newsom Trails All — Calitics [...]

Ode to Former Nixon Speechwriter

William Safire died today. Many have memorialized him as an oracle of language and a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist, but I will always remember him as the man who wrote speeches for a president who committed war crimes against millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia while simultaneously abusing executive power to [...]