Democracy

  It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ~Thomas Jefferson   So here we are,...

Reid insisted in 2010 that delaying the debt ceiling vote would ensure that the Republicans would own part of the responsibility. And so we find ourselves on the brink of disaster.

People are living longer. Just look at the number of ex-Presidents we have living yet. There are four, and I can’t remember when so...

Terrorism is defined as, ""The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." So is the GOP.

When I was a junior in high school, in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term, I took a course in civics. Back then,...

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.

Considering the Tea Party's candidates and leader's (deliberate?) misconceptions about our founding fathers and what they truly believed, I am writing this in the...

I'm not a great fan of Cynthia Boaz, but I'll give her fair due. She's written a cracking piece which you can see on...

DESPITE the treasonous and degenerate Republican efforts to stop us.. DESPITE the RACISTS (whether they care to admit it or not)... DESPITE them ALL,...

Take action to support MN Gov. Mark Dayton in this tense government shutdown, as he fights to fill a $5 billion budget gap by making the wealthy pay their fair share instead of allowing Republicans to squeeze it all out of the middle class once again.