Moscow: Dozens killed

Our hearts go out to those  affected by these terrible explosions.  Please let us know how you are doing, if you or friends of yours are among those affected.

We can add “suicide bombers” as another group we do not want more women in.

What it’s really about

As Frank Rich says, all the anger isn’t really about health care.

If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from.

Thanks, Mr Jender.