Republicans Support Tax Cuts Because They DON’T Help Most Americans

Creating jobs — especially good jobs — for the middle- and working class and providing economic relief for unemployed, debt-strapped, falling-into-poverty Americans is the last thing Republicans want to do. That’s why every single one of them voted against the House version of Pres....

When Is It Okay to Bash the Corporate Profit Model?

Answer: When it costs a wingnut his source of income. Added: TBogg: Nobody could have anticipated that Pajamas Media would sucker the rubes and then destroy teh intertubes[.] [...] The comments are like a Sam Shepard play where the repressed loathing and petty jealousies bubble to the surface for our...

Stumped Anti-Abortionists Strike Back

Remember this quaint meme and video from sometime last week where anti-abortion protesters had no blessed clue what to do with “criminal” women who would seek and complete illegal abortions? Well, Utah has decided to try to fill this important void in outlawing illegal abortion practices —...

I Don’t Understand People

People like Kimberley A. Strassel, anyway: It began one week after the swearing-in, when Nancy Pelosi whipped through a big expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The Schip bill was Democrats’ first stab at stealth expansion, unveiled in 2007, though vetoed by George W....

Send Bob Simon and “60 Minutes” Some Support

I just sent the following message to Bob Simon at “60 Minutes”: I am Jewish, and from a family of Holocaust survivors, and I want you to know how deeply I appreciate your piece on “60 Minutes” about the way Palestinians are forced to live under Israeli military occupation on the West...