The U.S. credit rating slips, proving that the debt ceiling agreement didn’t...
We gave in to the Congressional Republicans on the debt ceiling debate on almost every issue. We agreed not to raise taxes on the wealthy. We agreed not to tighten loopholes that allowed them to hide...
View ArticleThe apparent end of public education as we know it in Philadelphia
We’ve talked at length on this site, over the past several years, about the coordinated campaign to dismantle public education in the United States. Sadly, Michigan is often at the forefront of this...
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Global climate change, as we’re seeing, is not a joke. The consequences are...
I didn’t think it was possible for me to be any more pissed than I was during the Republican National Convention when I heard Mitt Romney say the following.If there’s any silver lining at all in what’s...
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The biggest post-election losers… Or, six old white men that need to be set...
Bobby Jindal, the Republican Governor of Louisiana, when asked a few days ago to reflect on the election, said, “We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to...
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Rand Paul, savior of Detroit or destroyer of the American middle class?
Trying to put some distance between himself and his most recent plagiarism scandal, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who has aspirations of running for President in 2016, made his way to Michigan yesterday,...
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The arguments for and against Michigan’s Proposal 1
Those of you voting in Michigan today will be confronted by a terribly confusing ballot item called Proposal 1, or the Michigan Use Tax and Community Stabilization Share. Boiled down to its essentials,...
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What I learned from Ferguson: Now’s the time to get the tanks off our streets...
As the story in Ferguson continues to evolve, one thing has become clear to me… Now is the time to move against the increasingly militarization of America’s local police forces. The public awareness...
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