Like having to pay for the clean up of Walmarts illegally dumping toxic waste, where tax payers involuntarily subsidize the profits of the Walton family, we are having to pay to make up the difference between a fair and significantly higher wage, and for the Walmart unfair, discriminatory and illegal labor practices, with the Walton [...]
This is a bookend post to one written by my colleague Holly at the beginning of last week. My apologies to my colleagues, because I had promised this to be done earlier, to build on the theme of the early child. It is late, not because I failed to work on it, but because no [...]
The Minnesota Family Council apparently hates infertile couples who seek help in starting families. In North Dakota, they’re trying to abolish fertility procedures AND to outlaw some of the most popular forms of contraception. I’m struck by how the right, despite their abuse of the word Freedom, are consistently the ones who try to trample [...]
We have a lot of debate and conversations about government. What it is – and isn’t, what it does, what it should and should not do – there is relatively little agreement, but a lot of opinions. Some of that opinion is better informed than others. This post presumes to take a look at some [...]
cross posted from Penigma Republican candidates too willingly fall in line with party politics and party economic policies, instead of having the moral character and political will to stand up with critical objections to these policies. We have Republican candidates calling Obama “the food stamp president”, as if the use of food stamps derives from his policies, [...]
What this post is about: The role of extremist rhetoric influencing less than mentally sound people to act violently is a legitimate concern for both news coverage and public discourse. But how we engage in that as a finding of fact, and as a subject for discourse varies tremendously; there is a good way, and [...]
Standard and Poor’s rates the following countries with a AAA credit rating : Australia Austria Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain Hong Kong Netherlands Norway Sweden Switzerland What do all thirteen have in common? All provide National Health Care. The forms may vary by country … some with tiered systems or provide some subsidy, [...]
If you’ve ever had someone give you that cocked-headed “huh?” response to your self-description as a progressive, you should see some of the uncomfortable, seat-wriggling, head-scratching maneuvers we “Christian Progressives” get to openly embracing that label (and that’s nothing compared to the gyrations the adorable little ladies at my church go through when I “intimidate and scare” by talking [...]
Progressives, our time is now. That’s not because we have made the United States the great nation that it is, although that should be obvious enough by itself. It is our time because too much has been neglected for too long, even by us. The only thing we have to fear is, still, fear itself. [...]
MN Blue Blogs: Ten articles from Minnesota blogs
Graphic artist and blogger Mario Piperni, that's who. Amazing graphics, great stories.
Union News: 10 articles from national union blogs
