Articles Posted in the Blog Category
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Take A Hike
BY KAREN WEBB Reince Priebus is reverting to the old male standard of trying to convince women that the GOP’s “war on women” is just all in our little heads. Well, obviously Reince hasn’t read all of the bills in the various state legislatures involving women’s rights. Latest analogy to convince women that this is [...]
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Selling Out Regulation
BY RALPH NADER The Republican Party has a sense of humor, however inadvertently. Its ardent advocates regularly accuse the Obama Administration of heavy-handed regulation of business. Tell that to the 100 federal poultry inspectors who just picketed the Department of Agriculture in opposition to a proposal that would allow those crammed, bacterial poultry slaughterhouses to [...]
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Bleeding Education Dry
BY SHARON MARTIN A well-funded education system is good for the state’s economy. The results aren’t immediate; it takes time to educate, but if one is willing to stick around for the results, one will see that the better educated a state’s population, the higher the standard of living. The more citizens earn, the more [...]
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Mitt, You Ignorant Twit
BY KAREN WEBB There is only one thing to say about last week’s exchange between Mitt Romney and Jay Leno: “What incredibly plu-perfectly cruel and inhumane person would vote for this idiot.” The only problem is most of the GOP agrees with this tortured logic when discussing the lives of people they neither understand, nor [...]
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Raising Taxes
BY SHARON MARTIN For years I’ve been watching consumers get nipped by food manufacturers. First, a pound of coffee became 13 ounces. Manufacturers knew it was easier to sell a smaller can than a higher-priced one. Then, those 16-ounce cans of green beans shrank to 15 ounces. And what happened to that half-gallon carton of [...]
