Thank you, Governor Walker
It's time for progressives to take a moment to join together in offering Gov. Walker thanks.
Palin, Paul Revere and the rewards of ignorance
Sarah Palin and her friends on the Republican right seem to have never heard of either validity or reliability.
A question of values
It is important to take a look at them and their Republican cohorts to see what they are up to and what they really want.
Banker’s deficit solution: work longer with less pay and half the benefits
Many children were working in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory when fire broke out. Such conditions, if Republicans have their way, may again become commonplace.
Right wing nuts are slipping in the polls
Republican claims that they have an overwhelming majority mandate do not square with the polls.
Ohio tea party rep needs history lesson
Tea party leaders and the ultra-right need a lesson in history when it comes to our Founding Fathers who were not only revolutionaries in deed, but many held far-reaching democratic ideas that the tea-baggers would denounce as "socialist."
Tea party movement's new politics: dangerous shape-shifting
The usual norms of political discourse would emphasize a party's ability to ask pertinent questions and provide salient answers; to probe facts, poll members and seek solutions based largely on consensus or majority sentiment. Today's politics seem based on contradiction, on a party-constituency dynamic that turns the norms of political discourse on its head.
What we can learn from the elections
The "tea party movement" is neither "populist," or new; nor was it as I see it, a major factor inthe GOP victory. So what was?
Constitutional amendment for right to work needed
Given the worst losses for the Democrats in Congress in the last 50 years, some serious rethinking seems called for.
Election stakes couldn't be higher
Just like they did when President Obama was running for the White House, the Republican/ tea party candidates are throwing the kitchen sink again at Democrats
