Men, Women and Rebecca Solnit: Is Ten Millennium of Subjugation enough.
Given the justifiable adverse reaction to the Missouri Republican candidate for US Senator's shocking statement and equally shocking "correction," I was pleased to come across a recent reprint in...
View ArticleDon't Believe the Akin Revolt
Do you really believe Karl Rove is giving up? Republicans have no intention of giving up on any seat in congress. Democrats are making a huge mistake by overestimating the public sentiment and...
View ArticleBreaking Up With Polluters To Save The Climate: CCSOS
One of the largest roadblocks that limit efforts to secure a safe global climate for the 21st century and beyond is that our elected representatives are trapped in an abusive relationship with the...
View ArticleHelp Claire McCaskill - Support Todd Akin
I really just want to get this off my chest... Thank you, Todd Akin. Thank you for telling the rest of America what us leftwing political junkies have known all along. Thank you for pulling back the...
View ArticlePresident Obama Heads Into Conventions With 4% Lead and Election Defined as...
President Obama maintains a sight lead of 48% to 44%, as the two party's head into their conventions, according to this registered voter poll reported in NBC/WSJ poll: Heading into conventions, Obama...
View ArticleLorem Ipsum
If you've ever worked on a project to design a poster or brochure, you've probably encountered the printer's device of "Greeking" -- displaying sample text in sort of fake Latin (hence the name...
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The Great White Backlash - A New Civil War
A Startling Look At What Is Really Going On In America Within The Republican Party I just came across this article The Great White Backlash, The Dog Whistle, and a New Civil War By John Reed and TRUTH...
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6 Reasons to Vote on November 6th
Every year, we poll our Working America members to find out what issues are most important to them. We’ve grown to over 3 million members across the country – people of all ages, industries, and...
View ArticleJUST ASKING...
OK. Several points I am not hearing about the issues of this election. 1. These so-called "pro-life" anti-women groups are represented by men, by families, who are well aware that if THEIR daughter,...
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89 Year Old Grandmother forced to wait 4 hours for Voter ID in PA
This is going to be a real "hit and run diary," as I only have a few minutes left on my lunch hour. I started a Facebook group called "Stop the PA Voter ID Bill. It now has 76 members. I was shocked...
View ArticleWomen in Politics: Why Do We Put Up With Misogyny?
The Akin (achin') gaffes and the many other stories of late in the War Against Women have not only put a microscope on reproductive rights for women, but raised much larger questions. "Why do women...
View ArticleThe only poll that really matters
Forget the horse race polls for now. The campaign has barely begun. Here's the one that really matters at this point. What the numbers tell us is that if Dems get a solid, truthful message across,...
View ArticleThe GOP’s Vitruvian Man
The Republican Platform says a lot about Republican Man. He’s a strange one... Leonardo da Vinci’s arguably most famous drawing is called the Vitruvian Man. You’ve seen it; it’s the one where a buff...
View ArticleRasmussen poll shows Obama ahead of Romney ... in Missouri!
That's right, they're showing O over Rmoney by a (narrow) margin of 1% in a poll of likely Missouri voters conducted on August 22, 2012. (link). From Rasmussen: As the controversy over Republican...
View ArticleRomney's birther remark wasn't a joke
I'm sure all of you have seen Romney's birther comment by now, but I'm going to reproduce it here for easy access: Now, I love being home in this place where Ann and I were raised, where both of us...
View ArticleOooh, it makes me feel good
Isn’t it fun to post diaries that highlight some pundit or politician that “rips,” “destroys,” “humiliates,” “devastates,” etc., someone from the right? Don’t we feel good when we see a riposte so...
View ArticleWhy we don't need to see Mitt's birth certificate
So, Mitt, you say no one has ever asked to see your birth certificate? Really? Of course not! Because where else but in America could a rich white kid grow up to run for president and cite as his...
View ArticleShow some anger
I feel the need to highlight something. The recent voter ID laws and other suppression efforts across the country, as has been admitted by some, are specifically made to prevent black people, Latinos,...
View ArticleObama 2016 movie review
A Republican offered a liberal a ticket...the liberal renegotiated for a drink and a popcorn. The Republican said "okay" and I went to see 2016: Obama's Evil (possibly incorrect title).
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