The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working. It will create more jobs for construction workers, more jobs for teachers, more jobs for veterans, and more jobs for long-term unemployed.
We'll be live blogging on this thread during the debate, hope you'll join us. In the mean time, please feel free to post comments about the GOP primary and any of the cast from this hit reality show, "Election - Arkham Asylum Edition".
Loads of people love to talk about fascism coming to the United States, draped in a flag and carrying a cross. Well, maybe that's...
"God, Guns, and Greed" shows the passion and commitment Dominionists have to taking overAmerica– and the world.
How does a lib engage with a RWer in a way that doesn't convey acrimony while still standing strong?
There can be no question about the historic importance of 9/11 and how it changed the course of America. There's an enormous amount to be learned and remembered but there can be a thin line between exploring those events and exploiting the horror of that day just for ratings or other less than altruistic agendas.
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...
At the recommendation of a fellow Southerner, I'm currently reading a book I should have read long ago - Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic.
It's...
Americans Elect feels like a Koch-Brothers-type Tea Partying of the Left and Indies. Exploit the anger and frustration of the constituency and drive them together under a populist tent...that's in fact owned by the wealthy.
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...