News! Three Wise Men is up and running at our new location, threewisemeblog.com . Well, sort of...we're still putting our house in order...

Instead of passing health care, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block money for the Obama administration to transfer Gitmo detai...

The circumstances change, but the advice remains the same from Robert Kagan. Whatever an American administration is doing about Iran, it...

Last month I wrote this about critics of health care reform : But thanks to lying liars like Krauthammer and McCaughey, progress on this fro...

As early voting for the November elections looms on the horizon, the Texas Progressive Alliance says good-bye to September and hello to anot...

The only proper response to this is for somebody to put an arrow in Limbaugh's fat ass:

The House of Representatives voted to extend unemployment benefits , stop Medicare premium hikes , and keep the goverment running through Oc...

We all are in our individual capacities, but now the blog collective has planted a flag in Facebook country. I don't entirely know what ...

Glenn Greenwald condemns David Brooks most recent idiocy in far great detail and with far greater passion than I can summon, but there is o...

Unlike with our local misfit Hosan Smadi , it appears the FBI got their hands on a guy who had both the ability and the means to carry out...

Impressive work by U.S. intelligence agencies: President Obama and the leaders of Britain and France will accuse Iran Friday of building a ...

The situation in Honduras has been at a bit of a standstill for the last couple of months. Or at least it was, until exiled President Manuel...

Not cool dude . Not cool at all: Federal authorities arrested a 19-year-old Jordanian citizen whom they said placed an inactive car bomb tod...

If you're a close follower of this blog, you know that I occasionally blog about soccer, both domestic and otherwise. That includes blog...

Scientists have discovered that there is water literally everywhere on the Moon . Incredible: Three different space probes have gathered evi...

I don't know what the hell is up with the Twitter feed gadget, but I'm taking it down until they fix it. If you want to see my tweet...

Some things you should be reading on this Wednesday, the first full day of Fall: 1. You may have heard recently that the U.S. commander in A...

Fall is upon us, and so the Texas Progressive Alliance closes out another summer with some more hot blogging. Halliburton was fracking for C...

Congress is actually passing stuff again! Though still not health care. The House of Representatives voted for the biggest overhaul of fede...

There's a couple of them this morning. First, this : ACORN offices across Texas are temporarily halting the bulk of their work, followin...

An unmitigated failure. The Bush administration was a disaster for our nation ...unless you were the beneficiary of those massive tax cuts: ...

Yes. Just...yes.

Because even in America, we can only tolerate such idiocy for so long (via Xanthippas, via Boing Boing): In Medina, a new sign bears this wa...

Talking Points Memo has a post about about a new PPP poll showing that one-third of New Jersey conservatives believe President Obama defini...

Three things you should be reading: Two of them are from Daniel Larison. The first is this denouncement of the broad exception that Israel g...

A few weeks back, reflecting upon the upcoming anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I stumbled across this article in USA Today. The article wa...

Via that always great site Balloon Juice : This is what should happen to John Stossel pretty much every day. His journalism pretty much amou...

Haven't heard of J Street yet? Well, get yourself up to speed with this excellent explainer from the NYT Magazine.

Today the United States takes on Trinidad and Tobago in Round 4 of the CONCACAF 2010 World Cup qualification. A victory against El Salvado...

Via Glenn Greenwald , Marc Ambinder has a pretty good explainer of the background to the Citizens United v. FEC campaign finance case that...

This is not really a new story , given that banks have been charging usurious overdraft fees for the better part of a decade now, but I supp...

My thoughts on the USA - El Salvador game are summed up by this Soccer Experts blog post title: U.S. must kick sand in the face of CONCACAF...

Do you remember the 1999 Russian apartment bombings , bombings that helped to bring Vladimir Puting to power and for which theories of Russi...

Glenn Greenwald, at his mocking finest : But at least we paid lip service to (even while often violating) the notion that wars should be wag...

Last week I linked to a Chicago Tribune piece , which detailed the results of investigation conducted by a fire scientist hired by the Texas...

It's the week before Labor Day, and the Texas Progressive Alliance is hard at work bringing you the best of the Texas blogosphere. Here ...