Month: May 2012

Last year, the Republicans in Wisconsin passed the most sweeping and controversial legislation in many a decade, the bill that ended collective bargaining for most state employees.  The reverberations of the legislation go...

And I mean pointing a gun at President Obama’s head as part of an campaign claiming without any evidence whatsoever that Obama plans to ban One Million Guns. No lie. Here’s the image and the letter: Stochastic...

When he was running for the office, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker made a promise to create 250,000 private sector jobs and 10,000 new businesses in his state by the end of his first term. He is not making good progress. So...

Is Arizona unique in having such powerful sheriffs? Honestly, I never read about sheriffs from other states, but Arizona sheriffs are constantly in the news. It’s weird. It’s also weird that the Justice Department is...

I don’t know if Barack Obama and his political team planned the sequence of events that led to yesterday’s announcement by Obama that he supports same-sex marriage to the degree that Charlie Pierce suggests (and for...