Want to know what the Occupy Wall Street protests are all about? Look no further than the shocking statistic below. The 400 wealthiest people in America are worth more than the bottom 150 million people combined. I must have seen this statistic a hundred times, but each time I read it, it continues to stun [...]
Why do kids under the age of ten need firearms? To hunt for and kill their own food, which, under the policies of the Gov. Rick Snyder administration, they’ll need to do to survive. If social safety net programs are set on automatic timers, and kids can only be clothed in what’s available on discount [...]
Image via Wikipedia John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, the incoming Speaker of the House and Senate Minority Leader, respectively, are reading the results of the 2010 midterm elections as a mandate from Americans. In an op-ed in today’s Washington Post (which, curiously, also boasts a contribution from Ben Affleck, a piece that strikes a much [...]
If Democratic voters don’t turn out on Election Day, and independent voters help make a huge Republican wave on November 2, Big Oil and Big Coal will have won a stealth victory that will doom America to dependence on foreign oil and more greenhouse gas pollution for years to come. For that we would largely [...]
Image via Wikipedia When Doc Holliday said it (famously, at least to me, in the movie Tombstone, when the outlaw is deputized by Wyatt Earp) he said it with full recognition of the lie he was perpetuating. Doc Holliday, the smooth Southern killer, was not a man who believed in the law. He spent his [...]
Image by Urban~Spaceman via Flickr The inmates are taking over the asylum. In a big and incredibly under-reported story that some of us who count tea bags have been predicting for weeks now, the far right tea party caucus of the Michigan Republican Party is taking over. Thousands of cranky “tea party” types showed up [...]
Written by David Holtz Image by stevendepolo via Flickr Political pundits have been burning up the air waves and nets this week analyzing Tuesday’s primary election results with Rick Snyder’s takedown if not takeover on the Republican side getting lots of attention. Much less is being said about progressives and labor torching Andy Dillon’s [...]
Sea change ahead, folks, as Gallup reports that Dems have a six-point lead in generic ballots for the 2010 Congressional elections. Gallup notes: In the same week that the U.S. Senate passed a major financial reform bill touted as reining in Wall Street, Democrats pulled ahead of Republicans, 49% to 43% … If you read further, you’ll [...]
CNN asked Hoekstra if he found it hypocritical to show up for the groundbreaking of a plant he voted against by opposing funding through the federal Recovery Act. We had a few questions for Hoekstra, too. We wanted to ask about whether Hoekstra’s votes for huge tax breaks for Big Oil was the same thing–minus [...]