News & Politics

UPDATED News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, August 12, 2011

Calls for a presidential primary challenger seem to fall into common messaging traps that don't help progressives on the whole.

Roosevelt did not accept the simplistic conservative meme that MACROeconomics and MICROeconomics have the same fundamental principles and that government has to "live within...

What's totally oxymoronic is that Hillary has suddenly been reconstructed as the Great (and White) Progressive Hope.

Results for tonight's recall elections in WI are already starting to trickle in, updates will be posted below in comments.

How's this for an oxymoron? Her Serene Highness Queen Ratfucker Omnipotent of Medialand, otherwise known as Arianna Huffington, came to Philadelphia yesterday to address the...

MASSIVE edition! News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Anyone who is looking forward to the time when major corporations will start hiring Americans for good paying jobs again in big numbers, are among those who don't know what the "new normal" is for corporations.

Although Standard & Poors publicly stated reasons behind their decision to downgrade the credit rating of the United States from "AAA" to "AA+" were...

There's been a campaign going on around the blogosphere for awhile, advocating that MSNBC ban Pat Buchanan from appearing on the network. Buchanan is...