Will Free Speech Kill Health Care Reform?
Cross-posted to ShowMeProgress.comSince 1976, when the Supreme Court first articulated an equivalence between political donations and constitutionally protected free speech, we have seen the growth of...
View ArticleSmoke and Mirrors
Cross-posted to ShowMeProgressWe are all in hyper-ventilation mode about the noisy tea party fringe-wingers who have been congregating at various summer congressional constituent meetings, spewing...
View ArticleGlenn Beck says let them eat cake - and die
The Wonk Room reports that Glenn Beck is willing to let at least some of his most devoted watchers die. Speaking of Michelle Obama's anti-obesity initiative, specifically her suggestion that...
View ArticleWhen the sequester cuts close to home
Today progressive commentators are bewailing a House bill that would allow the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) enough flexibility in administering the sequester spending cuts to avoid disrupting air...
View ArticleCan we afford the GOP?
The title above might seem a bit obtuse to some since it's clear to most progressives that the GOP is already on the corporate dole and doesn't need any more funding. However, the funds in question...
View ArticleLiving in a GOP fantasyland
Notice how GOP talking points persist even when refuted over and over with real facts? Today many commentators are registering amazement at rightwing blogger Eric Erickson's blithe response to facts...
View ArticleWhy I'm troubled by the discussions on Syria
I've been following the discussion of Syria all week and growing more and I've been growing more and more impatient with some of what I've been hearing. There are important arguments against any type...
View ArticleCPAC: ahistorical conservatives will always get it wrong
Cross-posted to ShowMeProgress.The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) regional convention was held yesterday (Sept. 28) in St. Charles, Missouri, just outside of St. Louis. According to...
View ArticleAnn Wagner does Wall Street's bidding and and asks Main Street to thank her...
Cross-posted to Show Me Progress.So we know Republicans hate Obamacare so much that they can't shut up about it. But don't let their nattering on this topic lead you to think that they don't have a...
View ArticleSarah Palin, Pope Francis and militant Christianity
Sarah Palin, who seemed for a while to be receding into obscurity, has come roaring back into the public eye, appearing on sundry talk shoes to shill her new book, a paen to Christmas as it is...
View ArticleThe Republican jobs plan, or, How to build a third world economy
The recently enacted federal budget that everybody is regarding with relief but no hosannas failed to extend federal jobless benefits. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, about 5...
View ArticlePlaying the God card
Cross-Posted to Show Me ProgressEver notice how certain religious types think that their faith is a get-out-of-jail card that excuses just about any kind of nastiness? The most obvious recent example...
View ArticleDownton Abbey, George Will and his topsy-turvy vision of paternalistic...
We've all been either amused or outraged by the rightwing evocation of latte sipping, sushi-eating, volvo-driving, New York Times reading, etc. , etc. and etc. progressives. It's almost surreal to...
View ArticleSister Teresa Forcades, abortion, choice and individual self-determination
For many years I believed that there was some ground, albeit narrow and shaky, on which to respect those anti-abortion activists who sincerely believed that abortion was tantamount to murder. We've...
View ArticleNullification for thee, but not for me
The Attorney Generals of Oklahoma and Nebraska, Scott Pruitt and Jon Bruning respectively, have given us another example of right-wing hyprocisy. Not a surprise in itself, but given the tendency of...
View ArticleErick Erikson, the President, and the Pope
Conservatives got a new target today in their continuing game of whack the black man in the White House. At the National Prayer Breakfast the president had the gall to speak a few truths about the need...
View ArticleWho kills the most Americans?
It seems that House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) is worried that undocumented immigrants are driving up our murder statistics: SESSIONS: Every day, all along border states, maybe other...
View ArticleWhy are we letting the GOP write Hillary's narrative?
I've now read and heard nearly a gazillion news reports that talk about a supposed public perception of Hillary Clinton as "untrustworthy" and "dishonest." So far as I can tell, here are no concrete...
View ArticleWill Donald Trump take us down the path forged by Italy's mini-Trump, Silvio...
Asking “what can America learn from Italy,” Guardian reporter Stephanie Kirchgaessner has written about the resemblance between former rightwing Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a billionaire...
View ArticleA modest proposal for an effective opposition
In a first rate piece of analysis laying out the problems with Rep. Tim Ryan's reliance on a simpleminded and single minded appeal to the supposed power of white identify politics in his effort to...
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