SHARE        Saturday, December 31, 2011
The Mitt Romney Weather Vane Buy the Mitt Romney Weather Vane. Tracks the winds of political expediency. Yours for only $399.99 (plus installation).

(51 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 27, 2011
On Occupying the Democratic Party Can the further Left (Occupiers, anarchists, and Socialists) work, in some fashion, with the nearer Left (progressive Democrats, Labor, and groups like MoveOn.org)? Can the Occupy Movement find allies without getting co-opted?

SHARE        Saturday, November 12, 2011
ExxonMobil & Goldman Sachs: a winning ticket for the GOP in 2012 Now that corporations are persons, there's an obvious choice of candidates for the Republican ticket in 2012: ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Occupy Denver Elects a Leader In response to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock's insistence that Occupy Denver choose leadership to deal with City and State officials, and drawing inspiration from the notion that corporations are people, Occupy Denver's General Assembly has elected a leader: Shelby, a three year old Border Collie. "Shelby is closer to a person than any corporation: She can bleed, she can breed, and she can show emotion. Either Shelby is a pers

(12 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 15, 2011
Tea Party versus the Occupy Movement Republicans were able to absorb, co-opt, and be transformed by the Tea Party movement. But it seems that many people in the Occupy Movement don't trust the Democratic Party and are suspicious of its support. Can this be fixed?

(18 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 26, 2011
How to stop the Tea Party: a response to Sam Harris To stop the Tea Party, progressives need to both take over the Democratic Party and market the ideas of good government and fair taxation. To win that argument, progressives need to frame the issues correctly.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 24, 2011
Kucinich, Ron Reagan, Jr, Randi Rhodes and others speak at forum, mostly defend Obama On Saturday about a thousand people went to the Showare Center in Kent, WA to hear speeches and a panel discussion by Dennis Kucinich, Ron Reagan, Jr., Norman Goldman, Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller, Mike Malloy, and Mike Papantonio. They both criticized and defended President Obama and the Democrats.

(16 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 10, 2011
Dennis Kucinich looking for a political home, needs our help? Dennis Kucinich has been holding speaking engagements in Washington State, apparently in an effort to test the waters about relocating here and running for Congress. But support for him is lukewarm. Should progressives be advocating for him?

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 3, 2011
Scary reports from Bev Harris's Black Box Voting Bev Harris' book Black Box Voting describes how electronic voting machines open up our electoral system to risks of error and fraud.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 27, 2011
Coverups concerning former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel There are credible allegations of a coverup concerning former Republican US Senator Chuck Hagel. He hid his ownership in AIS (a voting machine manufacturer), even though his machines counted the votes in the election that Hagel won in an upset. Someone removed this story from the wikipedia article about Hagel.

(5 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 21, 2011
MoveOn's plan for a mass movement MoveOn aims to build a mass movement. But they're always asking for money, and do they have the correct approach?

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 12, 2011
Interactive 3D Visualizations of 111th Congress Voting Records This interactive 3D visualization of US Senators' voting records is based on public voting records. The visualization allows you to navigate in 3D space to see individual senators' and representatives' positions.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 14, 2011
Horray for government! It's time to market government. It's time for the left to celebrate and market government as a force of good.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 28, 2011
Are conservatives mean, greedy, and stupid? A response to Lakoff By insisting that conservatives are neither mean, greedy, or stupid, Lakoff too is enabling the right.

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 20, 2011
Name-calling works, if you can make it stick How can we prevent the slide into theocratic banana Republicanism?

(11 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 12, 2011
The Market for Progressive Groups and Websites The sale of HuffPost to AOL raises questions about corporate ownership of progressive infrastructure. House Republicans' efforts to defund NPR and CPB further threaten the Left's ability to get its message out. How can the left build an effective media and political infrastructure outside the market system?

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 15, 2011
Washington State's Unconstitutional Initiative: I-1053 Constitutions exist to protect the People from unjust laws and initiatives. The Washington State Constitution specifies that a bill becomes law if a majority of legislators support it. Hence I-1053 (the voter initiative requiring 2/3 majorities of legislators to approve tax increases) would appear to be unconstitutional, as would many or all of Tim Eyman's similar initiatives.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 24, 2010
Thoughts on Bob Woodward's book "Obama's Wars" Bob Woodward's book "Obama's Wars" concerns not just the war in Afghanistan but also the ideological war in the White House between hawks and doves, as well as the war that occurred inside the President's head.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 9, 2010
The straw that breaks, or strengthens, the Donkey's back Is President Obama's compromise on the Bush tax cuts for the super-rich the final straw, the one that breaks the Donkey's back? In fact, it's a great opportunity for progressives to revitalize the Democratic Party. Will the Party allow progressives to share some power? Will progressives flee to a third party?

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, December 2, 2010
Democrats and Progressives Need Each Other Angry conservatives take over the GOP. Angry progressives join a third party or an advocacy group.