Fund Raising GOP Style: Only One Answer Matters On Our Multi-page Questionnaire

Not that political party fund raising ever stops (just ask any member of the Democratic Party to show you their email inbox some time), but it's interesting to see the … Read More

Hillary Clinton is Taking Democrats Backward on Climate Change

When Barack Obama announced his Presidential campaign in Springfield, Illinois he spoke of climate change. Let's be the generation that finally frees America from the tyranny of oil. We can … Read More

Is ISIS Disintegrating ???

Word out of Iraq from yesterday is quite different the what I see in the morning war coverage out of MSM/corporate media. — Over in Iraq the coalition has set … Read More

The Economist: “Caliphate Strikes Back.” The Coalition corrects Iraq map, surrounds Mosul

The Economist tries to get it right. The center of Ramadi is indeed under ISIS control. That's “ISIS” as an acronym for Islamic State Is Shxt. What matters most in … Read More

The 2015 Ramadi Government Center attack. What is going on over there?

In Ramadi, Iraq, last week a force of some 200 ISIS fighters carried out a successful suicide-based attack on the Government Center building. A chain of cars drove in and … Read More

Illinois Legislators Face Backlash for Coal Mining Bill

Illinois State Senator Andy Manar is getting pushback from constituents after introducing a bill to help the heavily subsidized state coal mining industry. A coal industry lobbyist with Foresight Energy … Read More

Michigan GOP moves to strip power of local governments to protect workers and the LGBT community

Originally posted at Eclectablog.com. Republicans have successfully branded themselves as the party that worships “local governmental control”. They want federal regulations repealed and the power given to the states on … Read More

NY Times “The Center-Right Moment.” In fact it's Dirty Tricks and racism that beat the Left

David Brooks states the issue properly: Given the financial crisis, widening inequality, the unpopularity of the right’s stances on social issues and immigration, you would have thought that progressive parties … Read More

Murdoch's Dirty Tricks party UKIP grabbed 8.6% Labour, 4% Tory. Great election steal, Rupert !!

Now it should be explicit, not suspected or implicit that elections are not democratic in the presence of Murdoch, the Kochs or Adelman. What we see is that anything will … Read More

Lt. General of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps does bxt shxt crazy teevee. M Bachmann has a cousin?

No question, Iran has a number of very good generals. Their officers learned war fighting Saddam Hussein's army in the long war 1981-1989. The head of their Jerusalem/Quds Force, Major … Read More

United Kingdom: UKIP false flag is decisive to outcome (13% of vote moves 30 to 40 seats to Tories)

Recalculating the UK 2015 election vote to remove UKIP impact, the Conservative Party majority victory (329 seats) goes down to at best a 318-308 loss to Labour/SNP coalition. One helluva … Read More

UPDATE2 Israel: Netanyahu coalition announced at 61 seats. Kulanu leaks “63 seat voting block”

Recall all the stories telling us how Likud and Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu had won a great victory at the polls on March 17th ??? Well, it's not just Fox News. … Read More

UPDATED: Asst Wayne Cty prosecutor re: Baltimore protesters: “Shoot em. Period. End of discussion.”

Originally posted at Eclectablog.com. Shoot 'em? Teana Walsh, an assistant Wayne County, Michigan prosecutor posted this on her Facebook page after watching images of protesters and rioters in Baltimore following … Read More