Breaking News: War Settles Nothing
In her post "Breaking News: The Civil War Is Over" in Wednesday's New York Times, Linda Greenhouse describes the state of Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and...
View ArticleHow to #SaveUSPS? Remove the Fangs from Its Throat
Yesterday's nationwide rallies to save the US Postal Service represented a concerted effort on the part of the postal unions to garner support for HR 1351, the USPS Pension Obligation Recalculation and...
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Dear Amazon
Dear Amazon,I'm writing to let you know that, in spite of the fact that I own a Kindle, I'm not going to spend another cent at Amazon until I hear that you are (1) treating your employees better and...
View ArticleUSPS: Vultures Roosting in the Eagle's Nest
The vultures on the verge of destroying the US Postal Service are not merely circling. They've landed in the nest, ready to plunder and privatize, having fully captured USPS management and oversight....
View ArticleUrgent Call to Action: Save First-Class Mail
The management of the US Postal Service has proposed a drastic and irreversible reduction in first-class mail delivery standards. Currently 41.5 percent of first-class mail is delivered in one day,...
View ArticleWhat Does Columbus Have to Do with Me?
Today in my Facebook newsfeed I’ve seen lots of “Rethink Columbus Day” posts. Rethinking Columbus Day is an excellent idea. Yes, let’s do. Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day sounds great to me. But...
View ArticleDon't It Always Seem to Go...
My husband works for the US Postal Service, so the assault on the USPS certainly affects us directly. Nothing short of our livelihood is at stake. But that's only part of why I am determined to do all...
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We Are All Immigrants
If you missed it last night, or you've turned your television off like we have, you can watch Frontline: Lost in Detention online (54 minutes). Not for the faint of heart, it shows the abusiveness and...
View ArticlePrivatized Profits, Socialized Risk
No matter how outraged you are, it's impossible to keep up (h/t Lily Tomlin). In last week's installment of "Let's Hope No One's Paying Attention," the Bank of America moved uninsured Merrill...
View ArticleImmigration Uproar
An editorial on CNN Opinion purports to explain why the uproar over immigration has gone nationwide, but the authors, Audrey Singer and Jill H. Wilson, both at the Brookings Institution, left out some...
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Norquist Beyond the Thunderdome
Irresistible title on Huffington Post: "Patriotic Millionaires to Grover Norquist: 'Move to Somalia.'"WASHINGTON — Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, millionaires who want the government to...
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Madison Police: Providing a Safe Place for Democracy
Recently we've seen a lot of iconic images of police brutality against peaceful protesters from all over the country. From New York City to Tampa to Denver to Oakland and Davis, California, police are...
View ArticleProfit Über Alles: House's Antiregulatory Folly Is Their Idea of a Jobs Bill
On Wednesday, in a 241-to-184 vote, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 10, the "Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny" (REINS) Act, which would require congressional approval from...
View ArticleThe Transformative Power of Protest
This weekend HuffPost ran a piece by Steven van Zandt called "There Is Only One Issue in America," that one issue being the financing of public elections. I can think of many important issues other...
View ArticleWisconsin Set to Throw the Republicans Out
According to Andrew Feldman’s Christmas Eve opinion piece in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Despite Democrats' massive protests and their success at gathering recall signatures, most Wisconsinites...
View ArticleRoe vs. Wade vs. the Iowa Reality Show
As we turn our collective attention to the reality show in Iowa, it's hard to miss that a woman's right to choose is under attack. Many members of the rabid right like to live in a fact-free zone and...
View ArticleFrom Wisconsin's Department of Unmitigated Gall
I received a charming little missive in my inbox today from none other than our illustrious guv himself:E-update from the Desk of Governor Scott Walker One of the most important duties I have serving...
View Article2012 Talking Points: Rachel, Thomas, George, and Me
Most weekdays I watch the videos from the previous night's Rachel Maddow Show, and, as you can well imagine, very often I join in the discussion myself. Yesterday Thomas Frank, author of Pity the...
View ArticleWisconsin Recall: We Are What Democracy Looks Like
With less than a week to go in Wisconsin's effort to collect signatures for the Walker recall, many of us are understandably turning our thoughts to who will run against him in the upcoming...
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ONE MILLION!
In this one bright, shiny moment, the state of Fitzwalkerstan has been turned into the state of Euphoria. Can you feel the earth moving under your feet? This is a tectonic shift in American politics....
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Dear Russ: An Open Letter to Russ Feingold
Dear Russ,We know you have said repeatedly that you would not run for public office in 2012, and we have tried repeatedly to respect and honor that. But over and over again the idea comes sailing back,...
View ArticleCart Ahead of Horse in Wisconsin Recall Poll
Did you see this headline in the Washington Post last week?Scott Walker Leads in Wisconsin Recall Poll I bet I wasn't the only one who felt slightly sick upon reading that. The article mentions in...
View ArticleUnconscionable
The Obama administration announced this month that the health insurance plans of religiously affiliated institutions must cover the cost of contraceptives without co-pay for their employees, and...
View ArticleWisconsin Recall: Shooting the Moon
In his desperation to stay in office, Governor Scott Walker is throwing huge sums of bad money after more bad money. In fact, the only thing he has going for him is moola, most of it from out of state....
View ArticleThe Roar of Our Engines
While the media and political hacks argued earlier this week about whether or not Chrysler's two-minute halftime Super Bowl ad starring Clint Eastwood was meant to be a veiled endorsement of President...
View ArticleShow Me What Solidarity Looks Like
Political life in the United States has become so noxious and hostile that extreme partisan polarization, name-calling, smears, and schoolyard taunts have become commonplace. Thanks in large part to...
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WI Recall: Vinehout's the Real Deal
I spent most of Wednesday afternoon reading up on Kathleen Vinehout, in part because she’s the Democratic gubernatorial challenger I find most compelling, in part because a blogger I very much respect...
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