There was a lot of interesting discussion around my angry post about the FAA reauthorization bill screwing over unions, especially the Communication Workers of America. If you didn't watch CWA President Larry Cohen's rant yesterday, here it is. Mike Elk has a more in-depth discussion of...
Like a majority -- although not all -- commentators, I think that Reinhardt's narrow opinion striking down Prop 8 was probably represented the right way to proceed: Still, Reinhardt's decision.
I have a piece out today at Alternet detailing the struggle to protect some of the United States' most beautiful and unique landscapes from the scourge of dirty energy production..
Santorum's beauty pageant sweep was fun and everything, but Romney is still inevitable. The key point is the first one -- Romney's massive edge in resources didn't come into play yesterday because he didn't attempt to swamp Santorum in these states the way he successfully buried...
Shorter Karen Handel: I am outraged that Planned Parenthood politicized my successful move to get them excluded from funding because what they do conflicts with my reactionary political views.
Over at WPR, I have some thoughts on the USAF's latest effort to get rid of the pesky A-10 Warthog: For whatever reason, the A-10 has become a people’s favorite..
Politico, I will not underestimate you... twice. Just in case the 2012 Republican primary race hasn’t already had enough twists and turns – welcome back, Rick Santorum. After winning Tuesday’s non-binding contests in Missouri and Minnesota by thumping margins, bruising Mitt Romney and proving again that the GOP base...
Whenever the courts strike down a law that discriminates against a group conservatives don't like, every reactionary think and group blog must draw straws to see who gets to throw.
The US embargo on Cuba, a monument to futility: The world is much changed since the early days of 1962, but one thing has remained constant: The United States’ economic.
Leo Hickman has a nice little piece of investigative journalism in the Guardian about how a right-wing climate myth gets born and spread. In short, a scientist working on whether wind farms might affect localized weather (within 300 meters), gets published. He suggests it might. A...
The Obama Administration is producing a comprehensive planning document for national forest management. By and large, environmentalists are OK with it. Except for one major exception. One of the key.
This piece on the growing popularity of scotch in Latin America reminds me again of the connections between scotch and social status in the developing world. When I lived in.