A Walker to the End of a Lie

This wonderful NY Times piece from last Sunday lays out the clear difference between economic approaches in Wisconsin and Minnesota. One being a doctrinaire political ideology where Right Wing do-nothing austerity and the suffering it causes is peddled to the masses as job creation. And the other, a can-do activist state government, taxing some spending … Read more

The problem? Them bums on Welfare!!!

How much do we spend every year on food stamps (now being cut to 4 million of the poor and much more next year, with 1 in 6 children hungry in the US)? $78 Billion. How much do we pay out in corporate welfare (tax breaks, incentives, protections, subsidies)? $85 Billion. The Right likes to … Read more

The Mad Men of Climate Denial

Trained scientists and others take money to go on the air and in print and espouse lies dictated by and paid for by billionaire owners and boards of fossil fuel industries. At a time when the emergency warning light is flashing on climate change, these scoundrels help to confuse the issue, making it seem as … Read more

Woodrow Wilson . . .

 . . . father of the Espionage Act of 1917. Used against many people then. It’s being used against journalists now. His attorney general, Palmer, would approve.