Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 259th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (29 January – 4 February, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don’t forget: you

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 258th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (22nd-28th January, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don’t forget: you can sign up to receive the Golden

As a part of Click on Wales' season of post about the position of Plaid Cymru, there is an interesting article by Gwion Owain about Plaid Cymru's Socialist Platform. There is also an interesting response to the post from Glyn Beddau on the National Left Blog. Being a one nation conservative type nationalist I don't agree entirely with either post, but I tend to favour Gwion's position. I hate

Send in questions you would like President Obama to answer? It almost feels like a set-up by the Secret Service or FBI to entrap overzealous conservatives. Or is that just being paranoid? (Click to enlarge) Become a fan of The Political Commentator on Facebook here! Follow The Political Commentator on Twitter here! Friend The Political Commentator and Michael Haltman on Facebook here! Connect with...

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 257th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (15-21 January, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don’t forget: you can sign up

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 256th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (8-14 January, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don’t forget: you can sign up

Why the TPC Sunday funnies of course: Because there's a modicum of truth (and sometimes much more) in every jest! (click to enlarge)(Capitol Commentary) And from various sources courtesy of Theo Spark: Become a fan of The Political Commentator on Facebook here! Follow The Political Commentator on Twitter here! Friend The Political Commentator and Michael Haltman on Facebook here! Connect with...

Nag, nag, nag: If you click on that, you will see that this snap was snapped in a hardware store. A randomly selected one, as it happens, near to where I live. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, health and safety is, among other things, a business, and therefore an interest. If it diminished, money would be lost, money which knows it would be lost and which would therefore speak...

This is an explanation so simple and easy to understand that even someone "Inside the Beltway" should be able to grasp the concept! By taking the numbers down to a point where it may actually apply to the people on Main Street that the Congress and the President profess to be trying to help, it makes the concept of deficit spending easy to understand! (Click to enlarge)H/T SF Become a fan of The P...

Welcome to the Golden Dozen, and our 255th weekly round-up from the Lib Dem blogosphere … Featuring the seven most popular stories beyond Lib Dem Voice according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (1-7 January, 2012), together with a hand-picked quintet, normally courtesy of LibDig, you might otherwise have missed. Don’t forget: you can sign up