by Sara Robinson | Jul 29, 2010 | Blog
The beat goes on. In the nearly two weeks since I wrote Part I of this series, an armed gunman was arrested en route to assaulting an obscure progressive foundation in San Francisco -- one that's often been at the center of Glenn Beck's blackboard (which has become...
by Sara Robinson | Jul 16, 2010 | Blog
You've heard the latest one, right? President Obama -- or maybe it was Obama working hand-in-glove with BP -- deliberately blew up the Deepwater Horizon, sent 11 workers to their deaths, destroyed the country's biggest fishery, and smeared the coasts of five states...
by Sara Robinson | Jul 9, 2010 | Blog, Rick Perlstein
What we need is a new Progressive Dictionary. This dawned on me last week when I spent 1,500 words trying to explain that, no, the word "bureaucrat" was not always a swear word that carries dark connotations of suspect parentage; and that yes, once upon a time, we...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 28, 2010 | Blog
Brad Johnson at The Wonk Room calls out the "Climate Peacocks" in Congress who are ostentatiously shaking their tailfeathers in mock outrage over the very idea that the Environmental Protection Agency might actually act as agents of environmental protection: Earlier...
by Sara Robinson | Jun 17, 2010 | Blog
The racist outrages are coming so thick and fast out of Arizona these days that was probably only a matter of time before some Nazi group took advantage of the situation to put itself on the media map. And -- whaddaya know! -- here they come, right on schedule....
