Published: mic (September 30, 2013)
While it’s easy enough to talk about politics in terms of any given immediate cycle, Democrats should always try to keep the big picture in mind by asking themselves the most important question: How can we win the next election, the election after that, and other elections into the future?... Read Original Article
Published: mic (April 15, 2013)
Here are eight words that I doubt have ever come from the pen of a liberal columnist:
“Where is Rick Santorum when we need him?”
This thought comes to mind as soon as one looks at PA HB683, a new bill introduced in Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania that would outlaw whistleblowing on factory farm cruelty.
Published: mic (March 23, 2013), The Express Times (March 23, 2013)
From neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan to the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers, there is nothing more inherently pathetic than a bigot in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
This isn’t to say that bigots aren’t a pitiful sight as a general rule.
When I first heard that Arlen Specter was going to hit the stand-up comedy circuit, I was pretty excited. If nothing else, such a decision from an ex-Senator shows cojones, a commodity that is in distressingly short supply among most of those associated with public life.
A new bill proposed by Pennsylvania Representative Kathy Rapp would require any woman seeking an abortion to first undergo an ultrasound. During this procedure, the doctor would be forced to put the view screen in her field of vision so she could see the fetus and observe its heartbeat.
Published: The Express Times (October 3, 2011)
Can you identify the source of this quote?
“We conclude that in the field of public education separate but equal has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
If you can’t, don’t worry. Not even today’s high school students are expected to know that it came from the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in Brown v.... Read Original Article