I usually try to get back to the Commonwealth once a year. I've lived for the past 30 years in the same part of England to which two other Virginia women, Pocahontas (my kinswoman) and Nancy Astor, were condemned;...
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N----r, n----r, n----r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n----r”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now you’re...
If I was President and Congress was like, "No way we're taxing rich people and stuff!" I would be so like, "Uh-uh, you're gonna tax rich people, bitch!" and they would be so like, "Damn! Okay! We'll tax rich people, just get out of my face!"
Calls for a presidential primary challenger seem to fall into common messaging traps that don't help progressives on the whole.
What's totally oxymoronic is that Hillary has suddenly been reconstructed as the Great (and White) Progressive Hope.
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.
Let’s face it…
We are our own worst enemy.. and we better acknowledge that simple fact that unless we confront this cancer as a unified front then the entire nation will succumb to the bagger agenda.
We ALSO need President Obama...
Good morning, Planeteers!
I trust you all are doing okay, having come through all this angst. Now that Congress is on their five-week PAID vacation, we can all step back a little and take a deep breath. They can't do...
Remember that Monty Python skit where the Texas movie producer gets a bunch of screenwriters in a room and badgers them all until they are reduced to hiding under the table? The Texas producer actually reminds me a lot...
How did the Debt get so big? How did it become so famous? And what are its future plans? I sat down with the National Debt last week to see if I could find some answers.
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