Month: September 2010

Cross-posted at Winning Progressive As the winning cartoon from this Hartford Courant cartoon contest perfectly illustrates, the economic condition that President Obama inherited when he took office. A recent CNN pollshows that...

You think we got it bad now? A comprehensive Wonk Room survey of the Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate finds that nearly all dispute the scientific consensus that the United States must act to fight global warming...

I know it’s frustrating to have conservative Democrats serving in Congress. I know it’s a drag that Colin Powell’s endorsement counts for something, or that no one seems to question it when Chuck Hagel...

From the timing of it it looks like Newt McPherson, a 19 year-old mechanic living in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, had a shotgun wedding in September 1942 when it was discovered that 16-year old Kit Daugherty was pregnant. The...

Recently a number of people have been claiming that the Tea Party membership consists mainly of middle and upper-middle class people who want to keep taxes down so that they can have more “stuff.” I find this a...