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The US mid-term election is tomorrow. What will be the outcome? Will the GOP regain the House and/or the Senate? This is your chance to make your prediction on the outcome. I’ll include mine below....
View ArticleI’ll Pass on the Tea
With the election today there’s quite a few opinions shooting around the web particularly about the Tea Party. With all the rhetoric flying around the issues at stake have mostly flown under the...
View ArticleLooking Forward to 2012
The recent midterm elections have been a hard reversal for Obama and the Democratic Party. That is the media narrative and it is correct. While correct it is far from being the whole story. The current...
View ArticleMapping the Religious Right: Gary Bauer
The Religious Right is a powerful force in American politics and society, tipping elections and making themselves one of the most influential voting blocs in the country. Their objectives are worn on...
View ArticleMapping the Religious Right: Focus on the Family
The Religious Right is a powerful force in American politics and society, tipping elections and making themselves one of the most influential voting blocs in the country. Their objectives are worn on...
View ArticleThe Wisconsin Deficit “Crisis”, the Madison “Riots”, and Other Myths
The political situation in Wisconsin has come to a head following the proposal of a budget bill by newly elected Republican Governor Scott Walker which would for all intents and purposes strip public...
View ArticleTacking into the Wind
The clash over Governor Scott Walker’s effort to strip Wisconsin’s public unions of the right to collectively bargain has reached a new level of intensity. This morning Governor Walker gave his...
View ArticleState of Fiscal Emergency
To say the states of the Union are facing fiscal problems would be an understatement. With nearly every state in the country facing serious budget deficits as the recession takes its toll and stimulus...
View ArticleRocks and Shoals
In the fall of 2010 the Tea Party was swept into power on a wave of voter discontent promising to turn the country around by reigning in out of control government spending. They were riding high on...
View ArticleWhat the GOP’s Religion-Heavy Platform Means to Pagans
I wanted to elaborate on a post I made on my blog yesterday about the results of the Iowa Caucus. I’ve been writing a lot about the Republican Party and it’s pro-fundamentalist Christian agenda. As a...
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