Welcome to our ongoing thread covering the latest updates and opinions from our members on the GOP manufactured crisis of raising (or not raising) the debt ceiling.
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, July 14, 2011
Rupert Murdoch may explain to those he "puts a hit" on, "It's nuthin' personal, it's just business," but to any citizen of any nation that wishes to preserve their democracy, it's pretty damn personal.
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, July 12, 2011
UPDATED with Presidential press conference. News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, July 11, 2011
While scientists remain puzzled as to the cause of the dramatic decline in honeybee populations in North America and elsewhere, some are speculating the...
BP is fighting to stop payments on claims to all those who lives they damaged because they claim that the Gulf is "recovering"?
I am a Virginian born and bred. My mother's people were Virginians before Virginia was Virginia. They met the first settlers when they arrived...
November 27, 2009
Dear Journal,
I can't believe Brett Favre came back for another season. They're not even going to make the playoffs. Wish someone payed...
Excerpts from an article by Henry Giroux on the moral responsibilities we have to each other and our society in the face of a second Guilded Age.













