Rick Perry and the push for American theocracy
Recently there has been an increasing push to further inject a right-wing version of Christianity into the governance of the nation.
Hoping for an audacious jobs proposal Mr. President
As we approach Labor Day, 2011, the three biggest concerns on the minds of the American people are jobs, jobs and jobs.
Michigan Republicans cut welfare and twist Bible
Michigan's Republican dominated state Legislature passed a lifetime limit on welfare benefits expected to cast 11,000 families off the welfare rolls on Oct. 1 - including more than 29,700 children.
The Republicans must be defeated
If the GOP regains all three branches of the government, the crisis of human suffering can and will become far more severe.
A few facts about Rick Perry’s Texas
Whether it's jobs, deficits, education or other concerns, an examination of Texas under Rick Perry ought to give any American a shudder.
Will Obama get on the bus for federal action to create jobs?
President Obama began a 3-state bus tour today to Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois.
On, Wisconsin!
Wisconsin working people and their supporters this week defeated two incumbent state senators who backed Republican Gov. Scott Walker's attacks on collective bargaining rights.
A tribute to Senator Mark Hatfield
Sen. Mark Hatfield was a man of conscience, and possessed a sense of right and wrong which overrode party loyalty.
FAA shutdown and labor's unhappy anniversary
It was 30 years ago this month that Ronald Reagan struck the blow that sent the American labor movement tumbling into a decline it's still struggling to reverse.
S&P "bond vigilantes" take aim - at us
Standard and Poor's is a "bond vigilante" for the "investor class" - essentially a finance capitalist business agent with a big economic machine gun.
