Published: mic (May 23, 2013)
There are days that call for history lessons, and while most liberals don’t realize it, we should definitely insist on May 22 being one of them. After all, it was 49 years ago yesterday that President Lyndon Baines Johnson intoned these words at a speech delivered to a graduating class at the University of Michigan:
“For a century we labored to settle and to subdue a continent.
Published: mic (May 21, 2013)
Update: Since this article was written, Senator Coburn announced that he would be insistent that any aid to the Oklahoma tornado victims must be offset by additional spending cuts elsewhere — predictably putting partisan politics ahead of helping his constituents. Read more here.
It’s always immensely satisfying to read an article that makes its point simply by listing facts.
Published: mic (May 18, 2013), The Morning Call (May 20, 2013)
From a strictly political standpoint, the past month has been pretty good for Sen. Ted Cruz. First the Tea Party darling further endeared himself to grassroots rightists by claiming that he had privately told the Republican senators who supported the gun-buyer background check bill to “not be a bunch of squishes.”
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: The Morning Call (April 15, 2013), mic (April 16, 2013)
Editor’s note: This article was written before the Boston Marathon bombings, and is not intended to be a response to that incident. All commentary in this article is on pre-Boston incidents alone and is not intended to indicate anything concerning the ongoing Boston Marathon investigation.
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.