In case Komen hadn't satisfied its desire to paint itself as a right-wing organization with its defunding of Planned Parenthood, it wanted to make it very clear to all of us where it falls on the political spectrum: Just in time for the rising backlash...
Author: Erik Loomis
I know I've been expressing some optimism about November in recent posts. But forget about it. A total game-changer means we should all give up on reelecting Barack Obama. Apparently.
My major goal in election-related blogging is to provide some coverage of state-level politics, which I pay a good deal of attention to. This is particularly true in states that.
We are now out of Iraq, at least sort of. So now everyone can start putting their bad memories of the American occupation behind them, right? Of course, Americans forgot this yesterday, after all Real Housewives of Lubbock is on. But the Iraqis have a...
If Obama wins reelection, he's going to have a long list of holiday cards* to send out. Sure, he'll have all sorts of fundraisers to thank. He'll even give the.
Josh Fox, the maker of the documentary Gasland and whom one might call today's Ida Tarbell, was arrested today at the order of House Republicans during a hearing of the.
After another dumb climate change denial article in the Wall Street Journal last week, a group of climate scientists had enough. We need a lot more aggressive attacks like this from the scientists. An excerpt: Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate Do you...
A lot of interesting things under the radar right now: 1. It looks like Minnesota is going to have a right to work a person to death law on the.
The Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that poorly educated government workers make more than they would in the private sector. That's hardly surprising. What's equally unsurprising is that.
Although SOPA and PIPA were defeated for now, the corporate-government attack on file sharing continues unabated. Most significantly was the government shutdown of Megaupload a couple of weeks ago. Regardless of an overarching bill ending filesharing, the media companies are using their full power to...
Outstanding.
Tom Krazit at Paid Content has a piece up apologizing for Apple's exploitation of Chinese workers in the creation of its products. Krazit argues that Apple really can't do anything.