Nuns Are In And Priests Are Out

Sister Simone getting uppity

The Catholic Church has taken a lot of abuse lately, and for good reason. On the first day of February it was announced that retired LA Cardinal Roger Mohony would be stripped of his duties. Under his watch, an unprecedented number of children were sexually abused by various priests. Instead [...]

The Invisible Housing Crisis

I have to thank / blame Ezra Klein for getting me back on the blogging horse. He posted a chart that really brought home the problems facing our state and our country. Most people who read this blog are, I expect, reasonably well ensconced in the American middle class. Most folks probably own their homes [...]

Cause and Effect

Sometimes events aren’t that hard to figure out. The violence in the Milwaukee Public Schools for instance.

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Mitt Romney: “I’m not concerned about the very poor” (VIDEO)

I’ll give Mitt Romney credit…at least he’s finally articulating what any rational person knew to be true….that Republicans don’t care about the very poor in our country.

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Republican State Sen. Mike Ellis: “Green Bay Preble is a sewer”

Watch and listen as Republican State Sen. Mike Ellis of Neenah expresses his feelings about Green Bay Preble High School, calling it a “sewer” while holding court with Republican State Rep. Robin Vos and Republican State Sen. Sheila Harsdorf.

The video I posted was edited and re-posted with the permission of the fine folks [...]

Representative Vos Blames UW Cuts on the Poor

Just when you thought Robin Vos couldn’t get any more disgusting, he manages to up his game. Besides being an unethical slumlord, he’s also never misses an opportunity to blame the poor for the state of the state. In a discussion of the cuts to the University of Wisconsin system, he fires a broadside at [...]

Milwaukee Advocacy Group Proposes Plan to Relieve Poverty

The big question is, will Governor Walker and the GOP controlled legislature heed the call to help the poor? I’m skeptical about the possibility.

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Social Security Works…

I have a couple of longer posts in the works on Social Security and Republicans and Taxes…but they aren’t ready for tonight!

But I thought I’d leave us all with this quick little tidbit: by now everyone has read the census news from any of a number of different outlets…more Americans are living in poverty [...]

Number of Americans in Poverty Hits Record High

But clearly we need to give more tax breaks to the super-rich and big businesses: The US poverty rate rose in 2010 to 15.1 percent, the highest rate since 1993, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday in another sign of a sputtering economy following a deep recession.

The report showed a sharp increase in poverty from [...]

My Jesus preached about helping the less fortunate. Bill O’Reilly’s Jesus? Not so much.

Says Bill O’Reilly: For them, the baby Jesus wants us to “provide,” no matter what the circumstance. But being a Christian, I know that while Jesus promoted charity at the highest level, he was not self-destructive.

In response to O’Reilly’s missive, Stephen Colbert pointed out the very obvious flaws in O’Reilly’s argument. “If this is [...]