I joined a conversation about women’s rights yesterday at work with two white women. It was interesting until one co-worker started questioning why African American history received so much attention in comparison to women’s studies. All history should be discussed, there is no[...]
Posts Tagged ‘USA’
February 15th, 2015 - 5:07 pm § in Politics
Radical Republicans: Debunking Rightwing Monetary Myths
Most Americans, if they’re at all religious, should get on their knees and thank God that rightwingers didn’t run America’s economic policy in the aftermath of the financial crisis and near-depression which their policies helped cause. Although our economy isn’t exactly glitt[...]
February 12th, 2015 - 5:12 pm § in Politics
Be glad you don’t live in Arizona
This is who runs their legislature …[...]
Boehner demands Democrats pass GOP immigration bill
Speaker John Boehner told Senate Democrats to “get off their ass” and pass a House bill that defunds President Obama’s executive orders on immigration. Boehner, as you know, spent several years obstructing the president and the Democratic Senate. I suspect Minority Leader Harry Rei[...]
February 10th, 2015 - 3:28 pm § in Politics
Montanans boo Koch shills
A Koch group targeting Montana state legislators who refuse to oppose Medicaid expansion under Obamacare was booed and shouted down by local residents at a recent “town hall” meeting in Kalispell put on by the group. The group, Americans For Prosperity, held the meeting to attack state r[...]
February 6th, 2015 - 11:24 pm § in Politics
Australia’s rightwing leader is in serious political trouble
And this is welcome news, because Aussie prime minister Tony Abbott is one of the world’s worst climate deniers. His economic policies suck, too: “Abbott, a combative, uncompromising right-winger, has become deeply unpopular in Australia—and his colleagues in parliament are eyeing his[...]
February 6th, 2015 - 11:01 pm § in Politics
Fossil fuel interests call wind farms a health hazard
This has to be straight out of the Koch brothers propaganda factory. Wisconsin is facing a $2 billion budget shortfall, but Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal includes $250,000 to study the health effects of wind farms. Why? My guess is because fossil energy is the core of the Koch brothers&#[...]
January 30th, 2015 - 11:46 am § in Politics
GOP insiders quietly admit their party has nothing to replace Obamacare
If the Supreme Court guts Obamacare this term, Republicans have nothing to replace it. This is hardly shocking as the GOP did nothing about America’s escalating health care crisis during their 30 years in power that began with Reagan’s election in 1980. And GOP electeds are loathe to adm[...]
Hate group funds GOP junket
The American Family Association, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as a hate group, has paid for an expensive 9-day visit to Israel for 60 members of the Republican National Committee, according to Haaretz, Israeli’s oldest daily newspaper (est. 1918). http://www.haaretz.com[...]