Month: November 2014

Serious Questions

Look, I am not going to pretend that this is some kind of new development, but can anyone seriously say that black people don’t have every right to be terrified of letting their kids out of their sight? When their children...

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You Can’t Cure Stupid

Because there is no cure for The Stupid: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today announced that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) will continue his work as chairman of the Select Committee on the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in...

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Lunch Buffet

The St. Louis area is bracing for an announcement later today on whether Officer Darren Wilson will or will not face charges for the murder of Mike Brown. Dana Milbank continues to troll pretty much everyone in the...

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Immigration Part 2: All That Cryin’

I’ve really enjoyed the right-wing freakout in the wake of Obama’s executive order on immigration. I’m not going to bother to link, because we all know the usual suspects. Boehner’s calling Obama a king,...

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What’s Driving the Anti-Immigrant Angst

In The New Republic, William Frey takes a look at how demographic changes are affecting the makeup of our suburbs. This is the context within which our debate over immigration reform is taking place. The first decade of the...

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