Month: July 2012

People are bashing Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) for saying that people diagnosed with brain tumors shouldn’t be provided millions of dollars of health care. What he meant was that it’s stupid for someone who is uninsured...

As most of you know, I worked for ACORN/Project Vote during the 2004 election as a county coordinator. As a result, I have direct experience working with people of color in Philadelphia’s inner city and I am not at all...

We probably could have avoided the Civil War if the slave owners had realized that they could get guys like Michael Steele to head the Republican Party and they could pay slaves like Allen West to compare freedom to slavery. Why...

Sad times continue in the Big Easy. Layoffs of print media staff at the Times-Picayune are looming and there’s apparently little actual reporting on the blog that’s been hyped as the plan to pick up the news...

Do any of you make over $250,000 a year in taxable income? And, if you do, would you mind paying a modest 4-5% additional tax on all the money you make in addition to that first quarter million so that people won’t have...