Both parties equally hated
The combined unfavorable score for both parties — 104 percent — is also a record, and represents the first time that the figure has been above 100. The debt ceiling crisis is a perfect example of why both parties are…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Politics
Illinois, where former governors make the license plates
It’s funny but it’s not. \ For two succesive governors of a major state to be convicted of corruption is a sickening example of how payoffs, bribes, and fraud are business as usual in far too many state capitols. Really…
No Libyans allowed at ANSWER Libya Forum
Clay Claiborne, who I know from the anti-war days in L.A., details the pinheaded ANSWER Coalition and their physically blocking Libyans from entering their Libya forum. Yes, you read that right. Because, you see, for PSL (the Marxist party that…
Thomas Friedman unloads against both parties
There is something crazy about what is going on in our country today. Our fiscal condition continues on an unsustainable path, the European currency is heading for a crackup, the Arab world is in the midst of a crackup, unemployment…
Why don’t working class people come to our meetings?
Stuart Bramhall on why the left fails to attract the working class. After posing this question to working class clients and friends for 30+ years, I have come up with the following answers: Liberals and progressives rarely address the nitty…