- Progressive evangelical leader Jim Wallis is now eleven days into a fast to bring attention to budget cuts in programs that target low-income Americans; 28 Members of Congress have joined him and the commitment of prayer and fasting will go on. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/04/08/28-members-of-congress-join-fast-to-protest-budget-cuts/ 3 comments politics
- Joe Klein: The GOP 2012 Field is an "American Embarrassment" http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/03/29/american-embarrassment/ 36 comments politics
- "... a young Palestinian activist told me that his friends were feeling more positive toward the US than they had in years because of the military action in Libya. "It's on Al-Jazeera all the time," he said" http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/03/26/god-bless-america-jazeera/ 155 comments worldnews
- Census Data - New York loses - Texas wins - bottom line: the Northeast states lose representation, and the Southwest gains reps - Political repercussions obvious http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/12/21/census-day/?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28time%3A+top+stories%29 4 comments politics
- What have they done?...this Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and Obama already has the most legislative success of any modern president -- and that includes Ronald Reagan and Lyndon Johnson. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/12/20/the-111th-congress/?xid=rss-topstories 3 comments politics
- McCain disgraces himself with votes against Dream Act and DADT http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/12/18/two-dreams-one-dead/ 126 comments politics
- Sen. Mitch McConnell: "a vile and graceless public figure" http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/11/04/mcconnell-watch/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed:+timeblogs/swampland+(time:+swampland) 7 comments politics
- Vote to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell fails to pass http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/09/21/dont-ask-dont-tell-repeal-dont-pass/ 5 comments politics
- Dems Depressed and Disheartened http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/08/23/dems-depressed-and-disheartened/ 4 comments politics
- Sarah Palin stops by 'Worst Governor Ever' sign, hilarity ensues http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/08/09/sarah-palin-stops-by-the-worst-governor-ever-sign/ 17 comments politics
- The DOJ Cracks Down on Arizona Sheriff http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/08/05/the-doj-cracks-down-on-arizona-sheriff/?xid=rss-topstories 52 comments reddit.com
- Time: Should The U.S. Kidnap WikiLeak's Founder Julian Assange? I vote no. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/08/02/should-the-u-s-kidnap-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange/ 48 comments politics
- Newest nonsense Republican conspiracy theory about Obama? He wants to lose control of Congress in the 2010 elections. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/06/08/rumors/ 6 comments politics
- Tom Coburn was right, Bill O'Reilly lies: Fox News did repeatedly speculate about how people who don't get health insurance will be sent to jail. (They won't.) http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/04/14/jail-time-for-insurance-evaders-yes-said-fox-news/ 5 comments politics
- 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist." http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/23/the-challenge-of-measuring-the-right-wing-fringe/ 5 comments politics
- Rush tells listeners to call Congress and stop HCR. Gives the number of a pro-reform group, which provides callers pro-reform talking points before sending to Congressional switchboard. Hillarity ensues. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/19/alert-the-patriots-tyrants-are-ruining-our-country/#more-23730 4 comments politics
- "I can't remember another ethnic or religious lobbying group publicly siding with a foreign country against the President of the United States...especially when the country in question is engaging in behavior that the international community believes is illegal." http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/15/israel-first/?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0ilyf73tc 87 comments politics
- Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus? http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/14/why-does-glenn-beck-hate-jesus/?xid=rss-blogs&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+time%2Fblogs+%28time%3A+top+blog+posts%29&utm_content=google+reader 3 comments politics
- Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus? http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/14/why-does-glenn-beck-hate-jesus/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fswampland+%28time%3A+swampland%29 5 comments politics
- "Do you want to do the Daily Show?" Gibbs did not hesitate. "I think the President would love to, just maybe not Colbert." http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/17/gibbs-president-obama-would-love-to-appear-on-daily-show-but-not-colbert-report/?xid=huffpo-direct#ixzz0fog9thdb 10 comments politics
- A family of four in Maine (which is a relatively poor state) can expect to pay $1,876 a month--about $22,500 a year--for health insurance, starting in July. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/14/health-care-must-read-of-the-day/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fswampland+%28time%3A+swampland%29#ixzz0fztoujq1 24 comments politics
- Those who celebrate Sarah Palin's "authenticity" as superior to Barack Obama's self-made intellectuality are representatives of a long-standing American theme--the celebration of sameness, and mediocrity, in a country that has succeeded because of its diversity and genius . http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/02/07/palin-2/?xid=rss-blogs&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+time%2Fblogs+%28time%3A+top+blog+posts%29&utm_content=google+reader 15 comments politics
- Obama demolishes every Republican talking point thrown at him during question and answer session at GOP retreat. This is the law professor, intellectual, and ferocious Chicago politician I voted for. Where ya been? [video + full transcript] http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/01/29/re-great-political-television/ 18 comments politics
- US Television is reporting riots in Haiti. What they don't tell you is that their own camera crews started the riots. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/01/24/are-us-tv-crews-killing-haitians/ 40 comments worldnews
- Americans are too dumb to realize that the stimulus package has been helping them and Obama has done a piss poor job explaining it http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/01/25/too-dumb-to-thrive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+timeblogs%2Fswampland+%28time%3A+swampland%29 35 comments politics
- Obama calls press unserious: Not one asked me about Asia or the economy, I was asked several times whether I'd read Sarah Palin's book http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/12/06/what-barack-obama-really-thinks-of-the-white-house-press/ 210 comments politics
- Focus on the Family opposes health insurance reform because taxpayer subsidy dollars might help pay premiums to insurance companies that fund abortions... just like Principal, the insurance provider that Focus on the Family chose for its employees. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/28/does-focus-on-the-family-fund-abortions/ 6 comments politics
- Does Focus on the Family Fund Abortions? http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/28/does-focus-on-the-family-fund-abortions/?xid=rss-topstories 3 comments politics
- They Don't Get It -- It's Fine for to Fox News to Be Opinionated and Wrong. But When They Continue Organizing Anti-Government Protests, You Can't Pretend That Their Propaganda is News. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/23/outfoxed/ 11 comments politics
- The GOP gets it wrong again: the Nobel Prize has often been awarded for aspirational reasons; it's never been necessarily about achievement. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/09/an-aspirational-nobel-prize-for-obama/#more-17322%23ixzz0tsfyigqw 9 comments politics
- Conservapedia is re-translating the Bible. Apparently it isn't conservative enough for them. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/05/coming-soon-the-new-international-free-market-bible/?xid=rss-topstories 9 comments reddit.com
- Former GOP Senate Leader Bill Frist: I'd vote for Obamacare - Were he still in the Senate, "I would end up voting for it," he said. "As leader, I would take heat for it. ... That's what leadership is all about." http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/10/02/bill-frist-on-health-bill-id-vote-for-it/ 7 comments politics
- Time magazine's Joe Klein fires back at Glenn Greenwald for calling him to task http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/31/glenn-greenwald/ 4 comments politics
- They tortured, they lied, they ruined our economy. What would the Republicans have to do before the media stopped taking taking their nonsense seriously? http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/25/reading-cheney%E2%80%99s-response-to-the-new-cia-documents/ 11 comments politics
- Oh, THOSE Death Panels - GOP Supported End-of-Life Counseling in 2003 Medicare Bill. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/13/oh-those-death-panels/?xid=rss-topstories 15 comments reddit.com
- Republicans Who Are So Strongly Against "Death Panels" Voted for Them in 2003 http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/08/13/oh-those-death-panels/ 6 comments politics
- Lou Dobbs: Public Embarrassment http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/07/29/lou-dobbs-public-embarrassment/ 5 comments politics
- Guess who's leading the fight against health care? Bill Kristol. The same genius behind the Iraq war. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/07/20/dr-no/?xid=rss-blogs 64 comments politics
- Those who wonder about the President's efforts to be nice to Republicans--a singularly ungracious lot, cult-like in their devotion to failed economic policies past--should bear this particular example in mind as we go forward. http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/02/14/joe-lieberman-stimulus-hero/ 5 comments politics
- Obama wants to Move ahead with Universal Healthcare. Can we afford both Universal Healthcare and the Bail-out plan? http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/11/12/moving-forward-on-health-care/ 6 comments politics