Diehard supporters of the Texas Democratic Party are shaking in their boots at the thought that some third-party gubernatorial candidate will get on the ballot and make the November governor's race a repeat of 2006. That was the year that Kinky Friedman… more »

Conservative skank and whore for Republican obstructionists, incumbent faux-Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln has won the Arkansas Democratic Senate runoff election, defeating union-backed Lt. Governor Bill Halter. She'll face Republican congressman Joh… more »

U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter on Tuesday was defeated in a Democratic primary in his bid for a sixth term after taking the risky step of switching from the GOP. Voters picked U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak as the party's nominee and rejected the 80-year-old Specter in h… more »

Political novice and far-right wingnut Rand Paul rode support from tea party activists to a rout in Kentucky's Republican Senate primary Tuesday night, jolting the GOP establishment. Claiming Libertarian roots, Paul was endorsed by theocrat and roving id… more »

As the 2010 political races heat up on the Texas South Plains, we are once again presented with the spectacle of conservative hypocrisy. It's a battle between candidates who on the one hand decry big government and deficit spending, while on the other ha… more »

Texas Democrats have an opportunity to give Rick Perry an eight-month head start on his packing. If enough Democrats will crossover and vote in the Republican Primary on March 2, there's an excellent chance that Rick Perry will be knocked out of the 2010… more »

The defeat of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley in Massachusetts' U.S. Senate race for Ted kennedy's old seat pretty much summarizes the past year as far as Democrats are concerned. After Barack Obama's inauguration a year ago, the Democrats claimed to… more »

Has the Texas Democratic Party thrown in the towel in Cochran County? It sure looks that way. According to The Morton Tribune, the county's Democrats currently lack having any party members willing to serve on its County Executive Committee. The CEC cons… more »

It's amazing what kind of bullshit will ooze out of the mouth of economists and government statisticians.On the one hand there's the economists who this week claim that the recession is over. These are the same jarheads who during all of 2008 said we… more »

An overwhelming majority of South Plains voters cast their ballots for the wrong side of history yesterday. And in so doing, they cut off their noses to spite their own faces, as the old saying goes. When it comes time for the Democratic Congress and Pre… more »