There is no denying
that race is an arrow in their quiver that they use with precision. The puppet masters in the GOP aren't so much concerned with race as the core issue as they are cognizant of it as a weapon that draws...
View ArticleTeabaggers Shifting Their Rhetoric
On-the-ground reporting is coming in that in response to charges of racism, the Teabaggers are shifting their strategy.
View ArticleThere is No Superman
No Tooth Fairy. No Easter Bunny. No Count Dracula, no Bigfoot, no Santa Clause, no Loch Ness Monster.And there is no progressive Democratic party.
View ArticleConfrontation and Change
Last night I watched a documentary called The War at Home about resistance among American youth during the Vietnam era.I am the child of young parents who were among that generation, born in the late...
View ArticleMy CPA, Teabagger
When I sat down with my accountant to go over the damage for this year's tax liability, I knew politics might come up. Over the years we had talked briefly on various issues and I knew enough of his...
View ArticleThe Unwilling
I am a lifelong progressive, born in the late sixties and raised by two baby boomers who would have been called "hippies" at the time. I come from the heartland Midwest: blue collar, beef and corn fed...
View Article"We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem!"
Larry the Republican head of household comes home after being fired and announces to his family, "we have a revenue problem, we're going to have to go without some things and tighten our belts for a...
View ArticleThings I don't understand
Here is a list of things I don't understand, questions I'd like answers to, and miscellaneous things that make no sense to me about the official and media accounts of the events surrounding the Boston...
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