Salon has an interesting interview with Arthur Goldwag, author of the new book The New Hate: A History of Fear and Loathing on the Populist Right. He argues that the racist and conspiracist approach of today’s right-wing nut jobs is “largely the same as it was 50 years ago.”
But what caught my attention [...]
Continue Reading →Great review of the crisis in Europe by Irish economist David McWilliams! McWilliams has worked as an economist with the Central Bank of Ireland and as a banker with UBS bank and the Banque Nationale de Paris. He currently does documentary television.
Listen for the bit around 7:30 where McWilliams talks about working in [...]
Continue Reading →Wow… Just wow… Who watches this crap?
Continue Reading →If this doesn’t convince women, nothing will…
Continue Reading →It’s no secret what my political beliefs are – I’m a proud progressive.
Here in Wisconsin, we’ve got a long, proud tradition of progressive politics, and that’s why it’s been so disappointing to see what Republican elected officials are doing to our state. Whether it’s concealed carry and the Castle Doctrine, the weakening of [...]
Continue Reading →The New York Times featured a short interview with Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank in last week’s The New York Times Magazine. Rep. Frank lays it on the line and basically puts the blame for the current political divisiveness at the feet of Newt Gingrich:
NYT: You recently said about Newt Gingrich: “He’s just one [...]
Continue Reading →There clearly is a class of people willing to sacrifice the livelihood and well-being of others in pursuit of their ideological goal of a smaller government (so long as their own future remains secure). The notion of “expansionary austerity” was the cover, but so long as government shrinks as a result of [...]
Continue Reading →The following was written by Tanya Lohr, a Washington County resident who not only collected thousands of signatures to help trigger a recall of Republican Gov. Scott Walker, but she also got to carry a box full of those signatures when they were filed with the Government Accountability Board.
I carried a box.
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Continue Reading →Pulitzer winning animated editorial cartoonist Mark Fiore takes on SOPA-PIPA
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