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Prop 200 Ruling: Voter Suppression Is Just 21st Century Racism

Jun 17, 2013 | Elections, Elections - Other, mic, Political Parties, Race and Racism, Republicans

Published: mic (June 17, 2013)

First the good news: Champions of civil liberties should celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling Monday overturning an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

By empowering county registrars to “reject any application for registration that is not accompanied by satisfactory evidence of United States citizenship,” the “proof of citizenship” provision of Proposition 200 resulted in a disproportionately high number of voter registration rejections for Latino, other minority, and poor applicants, thereby discriminating against (to say nothing of discouraging) potential low income and/or non-white voters.

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Gun Control Debate 2013: Republicans’ “Slippery Slope” Arguments Show An Ignorance Of History

Jun 8, 2013 | Gun Control, History, mic, Political Parties, Republicans

Published: mic (June 8, 2013)

In light of the recent ricin attacks on Barack Obama, Michael Bloomberg, and Mayors Against Illegal Guns, it is time for us to acknowledge an unavoidable reality:

When the slippery slope fallacy is applied to politics, the consequences can be dangerous.

As defined by the Nizkor Project (an organization dedicated to debunking Holocaust denial), a slippery slope argument is “a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question.”

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Why Today’s Democrats Are Not Like LBJ

May 23, 2013 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Race and Racism

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.

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Tom Coburn and Republican Senators Repeatedly Opposed Disaster Relief Funds

May 21, 2013 | Conservativism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans, Science and Technology

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.

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Ted Cruz 2016: Presidential Run Would Put Birthers in a Bind

May 18, 2013 | Conservativism, Conspiracy Theories, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), Extremism, mic, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, Republicans

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.”

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