On the Same Page
The Democrats assembled a blue ribbon panel to review what went wrong in the 2014 elections. Four months later, the panel published its analysis and recommendations. By and large, the result mirrored...
View ArticleThank You, Sarah Palin!
We seem to think that politicians, particularly Regressives (aka Republicans), have only recently been saying idiotic things. Part of the problem is that in the past candidate statements typically had...
View ArticleNow Explain Excited
I wrote the following in August 2011, soon after the New York State legislature passed a marriage equality bill (unfortunately the only progressive thing supported by Andrew Cuomo so far in his tenure...
View ArticleTexas, again
One would think that many Texans would be happy to hear about dead Muslims. Not the residents of Farmersville, a town 40 miles northeast of Dallas. The BBC reported the story. (http://www.bbc.com/...)...
View ArticleWho Matters or What
The hallmark of a fully-functional democracy is its support for minority populations while adhering to majority rule. By this standard, the United States has yet to reach its potential. Nowhere is this...
View ArticleStarting from the same page
As Micah White and others have finally realized, the Occupy movement lost momentum on key issues and fractured to address specific issues (e.g., Jerry Ashton's Rolling Jubilee to reduce medical debt)...
View ArticleTrusting Science
The Bible is an amazing book that provides many lessons for living a fulfilling, contented life and even more beautiful aphorisms and recognizable references that make the most creative writers...
View ArticleMy, Oh, My Senator Schumer
If I lived in a red or purple state, I would cringe daily at the positions and statements of my elected representatives. As a longtime educator, I have great difficulty not revolting when I read or...
View ArticleConscious, not conscience
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) regards his decision about the Iran deal a matter of conscience. "This is a vote of conscience. It was a vote of conscience for me. It will be a vote of conscience for my...
View ArticleUnthinking mistake, honest anger
I was called "fuck face" for challenging a post on Facebook that claims people without fishing licenses are arrested and people who enter the USA illegally aren't. I said that people do not get hauled...
View ArticleProgressive telepathy: use the force
I received a prompt to write an entry on which of the Republican presidential primary contenders I consider most evil and which one I want most to get the nomination. This reminds me of the frequent...
View ArticleTargeting Target: toy guns, plastic soldiers and Barbie dolls
The hoo-haa from the ever-outraged right over Target's decision to integrate boys' and girls' toys is just the popping of one more bubble in the boiling stew of the culture wars. As my husband noted,...
View ArticleWe the People Petition: Remove Wasserman-Schultz
There is no excuse for the chair of the Democratic National Committee to oppose her own party leader's agreement with Iran. Bad enough Senator Chuck Schumer has decided that supporting Israel's leaders...
View ArticleAgainst the Iran deal equals against US interests
Many people responded to my criticisms of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who decided to oppose the Iran deal. The crux of my argument is that in public and in response to messages to him, he and his...
View ArticleTrump will be the GOP nominee
Donald Trump will become the GOP nominee for president. The odds are in his favor that he will be elected president as well. The reasons why are below the orange thingamewhatsit.
View ArticleModern mysteries (part 1)
1. Why does Cheerios offer 13 varieties?2. How does the same blog post about Donald Trump elicit ridicule and denunciation on Daily Kos and rational discussion of its content on LinkedIn and Writer...
View ArticleKossacks and Trump
Here are the results from the poll attached to my post providing the reasons why Trump will be nominated and possibly become president.Do you agree that Trump is most likely to be nominated? (128 votes...
View ArticleBabel, Babble, Babylon: Progressives must educate to succeed
It is a sad commentary on the state of political analysis when someone can have an article published in the Washington Post that sets up a false opposition between capitalism and socialism. It is one...
View ArticleLook at Trump go
On September 10, I posted a diary entry explaining in detail why Trump was likely to be the GOP nominee. I based my reasoning on being a political scientist, law school graduate, my decades-long focus...
View ArticleThe Democrats' Problem
In 2014, I donated more than 10 percent of my income to Democratic candidates around the country, to the DNC, the DSCC, the DCCC, and "blue" organizations. I used money from a bequest because I had...
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