President Barack Obama has announced his desire to run for President again in 2012 via emails to supporters and this video:
The Examiner article below, which has supporting video, reports that Michelle Bachman has obliquely suggested taxing unmarried parents at a higher rate than married parents. This will enervate both sides. She doesn’t seem to understand, or is conveniently ignoring, provisions in the current tax code which ALREADY bestow benefits upon married people and promote family …
1984 Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro passed away today at the age of 75. The preppy kid from Greenwich was no match for the tough Italian gal from outer Queens. – Jim Demetre is a Seattle-based writer and the publisher and editor of Artdish. . .
This is a moral issue. The fact that nearly 64% of the nation’s wealth is concentrated in the hands of 5% of the population is a scandal, while 80% of the population holds only 13% of the country’s wealth. Yet, the Right, particularly those with a “moral” agenda, concentrates its outrage on people’s sex lives …
Thanks to Peter Dysart for this who adds, “A perfect title for this might be, ‘Citizens United v FEC for Dummies’”:
We Are Wisconsin from Finn Ryan on Vimeo.
We Are Wisconsin from Finn Ryan on Vimeo. . An idealistic new executive gets elected along with majorities in both legislative houses. He sets about pursuing a pungently ideological agenda that he says the voters sent him to do. The minority party says, “Whoa, don’t over read a rejection of the status quo with a …
This is behind the scenes video of President Ronald Reagan preparing to flip the coin live from the White House at the start of Super Bowl XIX, which took place January 20, 1985. Billed as a battle of great quarterbacks– Dan Marino vs. Joe Montana– the Dolphins and 49ers warred in Stanford Stadium, Palo Alto, …
Here’s more in the Huffington Post.
As a post-believer raised in the Christian fundamentalist tradition, I maintain connection with my believing past through observing the evolution of Christian conservatism, particularly as it has become indistinguishable from modern Republicanism. [Note: I do not assume every Christian Conservative identifies as a Republican, but I am referring to the almost complete overlap of the …
Creativity was so boring when I was a kid. All we could do was write. But now…
Once upon a time, there was an American president that ran on a platform of Transparency, Hope, Change, and his slogan was, “Yes We Can!” Well wouldn’t ya know it? He won. Like all presidents, he knew it would take a lot of back room deals, playing politics, and hard handshakes to make it to …
There has been a lot of misinformation and disinformation coming from people who want to privatize or weaken Social Security. This is not a debate. This is a fact. People suggest that Social Security is in crisis when in reality it can pay out full benefits for more than the next 20 years. Remember that …
I continue to choose not to speculate about the motives (or lack thereof ) or sanity (or lack thereof) of Jared Loughner. And I sadly wish I had been wrong in my speculation about the reactions of right and left to the cruel violence inflicted by Loughner and its sad aftermath. That there are those …