As Senator Bernie Sanders will tell you, the Republican war on the middle class is bad for democracy and for capitalism. But could the GOP’s class warfare have…
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In the philosophical distractions department, a good friend of the blog is reading A Manual for Creating Atheists by Portland State University professor Dr. Peter Boghossian.…
South Dakota Democrats, work up some courage and file a South Dakota version of the gun legislation Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman just proposed. Missouri House…
Declines in public-sector employment and wages have dragged down the recovery from the 2008 recession. Those declines have also disproportionately hurt minority workers: Part of the reason…
John Tsitrian isn’t the only thoughtful and thought-provoking member of his family. The Rapid City blogger’s daughter Emily Tsitrian sends a fine travelogue from “extraordinary, friendly, clean,…
The State Innovation Exchange has released a letter signed by legislators from 31 states reminding Americans that we can keep our country safe and welcome immigrants and refugees to…
In this weekend’s signs of creeping fascism in America, Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump says that a “Black Lives Matter” protestor who interrupted his speech yesterday in Birmingham, Alabama, was…
No word yet from the Secretary of State’s office on progress toward certifying either the real 36% payday loan rate cap petition or the fake, industry-smokescreen…
Better that a hundred bad guys get guns than one good guy have to appeal…. Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has proposed the Denying Firearms and Explosives…