Morgan Freeman charges tea party motivated by racism
Oscar winner Morgan Freeman took on the tea party right last week, pointing directly to the corporate-based movement's racist intentions when attacking President Obama.
Time to act for jobs is now, no excuses
Obama's forceful speech and proposal for jobs before a joint session of Congress may well have been a turning point moment in his administration.
The Republicans' intergalactic adventures
The GOP presidential candidates proffered a free-market fairy tale straight from their alternate universe.
Obama in Detroit: A fighting Labor Day speech
President Obama is expected to outline a program for job creation through rebuilding the country's crumbling infrastructure.
Creationists, flat earthers and deficit hawks
It's worth asking how the proponents of deficit-reduction - be they congressional Republicans or "deficit hawks" within the Obama administration - think that lower deficits will lead to increased growth and job creation in an economy mired in a severe slump.
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.
Obama, the debt, and "shared sacrifice"
"Shared sacrifice" has become a key talking point among many top politicians opposing the Republican Party's defense of the super-rich and refusal to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire.
