After such a great election that saw our country having its first black president and putting in office so many progressive/democratic congresspeople and senators, how in the world have we gone from "on top of the world" to a "train wreck"???
I've been rethinking my opposition to the healthcare bill based on arguments put forth by the analysts at NC Policy Watch. Paul Krugman makes a similar case. Then I read this diary at Daily Kos, which shifted my opinion significantly.
Progressives should make the rallying cry of “no public' [...]
Fellow progressives, my name is John Marty; I am entering my 24th year in the Minnesota Senate, where I have fought for social and economic justice since day one.
In the Senate, I've championed LGBT rights (I am chief author of marriage equality legislation), I've fought for government ethics reform, I've' [...]
In this week’s edition of “The Follies“, Chris Fitzsimon takes jabs at political analyst John Davis, NC Free and Wake Up America.
Rob Schofield writes a Radical Right Reality Check asking if progressives need to play mean and nasty in “How to fight the right.”
Share and Enjoy:Worried about the economy, jobs and wages?
Not to worry, there is one major corporation that is growing, thriving, and I suspect hiring. In fact, roughly one in five workers in this corporation earns six figures – miraculously up from one in every seven during the last 18 months of recession.
“Progressives” take note, however: [...]
I predicted about 15 years ago, while speaking on a panel sponsored by Durham’s Human Relations Commission, that political disagreements, meaning anyone who disagreed with “progressives,” would soon be labeled racist and classified as hate crimes. The audience and the other panelists (I was the only conservative in the room) [...]
