by Isaiah J. Poole | Mar 4, 2008 | Blog
Like an “American Idol” reject, John McCain keeps warbling George W. Bush’s greatest flops. The latest is Social Security privatization, a proposal so roundly rejected by the American people when Bush tried to foist it on the nation in 2005 that even a solidly...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 29, 2008 | Blog
One in 100 is bad enough. One in nine is a full-blown national tragedy — one aided and abetted by conservative ideology. You know, if you've read today's headlines, that the "one in 100" figure represents the percentage of American adults now serving time in prison,...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 25, 2008 | Blog
Folk singer Pete Seeger's book, "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," includes a tribute to the people who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that recalls the spirit of fortitude and hope of the early civil rights movement — and asks us to recapture it in a post...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 21, 2008 | Blog, Minimum Wage
You may not agree, as Sara Robinson provocatively suggests, that the country is primed for revolution. But there is no doubt that large numbers of middle-class people are mad, really mad, about the damage Bush-league conservatism has done to the country and to their...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Feb 14, 2008 | Blog
The nation’s legions of homeless or near-homeless veterans make a mockery of all of those “support the troops” bumper stickers and other symbols of faux patriotism conservative blowhards like to flaunt — which is why right-wing mouthpiece Bill O’Reilly of the...
