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Go Players! Beat Owners!

New Orleans Not surprisingly the NFL players and owners marched into the abyss yesterday in another high-profile fight over [...]

Republicans Overreach in Wisconsin to Their Peril

Washington The buzz in DC for a change was not about DC, but about Wisconsin.  And, if not Wisconsin, then it was the 45,000 person crowd yesterday in [...]

Parties of Me Pretending to Be Parties of Thee

New Orleans Are you thinking and talking about the recent elections still?  Well, yes, I am because now is the time to prepare for the coming elections in 2 years.  In writing recently about the Tea Party and Me Party dominance in various elections, friends raised the new “top 2” primary system in California [...]

Tea Party, Me Party, More Parties

New Orleans        One of the post-lecture questions from a perceptive Lafayette College student that has stuck with me in the last couple of days, began with a phrase something like, “Since you seem to support the Tea Party, ….blah, blah, blah.”  I answered with a couple of jokes, since the premise [...]

Post Mortem: Labor Back to the Board

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New Orleans The Republicans are clear that unions have a target on their backs.  Labor law reform was never alive, especially not carrying the weight of “card check” recognition or mandatory first contract arbitration, and is now relegated to the dreamscape.  They promise worse to come, and they have the votes to [...]

Registration Down, Lower Income Votes Out

Phoenix Registration Down, Lower Income Votes Out

Phoenix We did the first direct action with Arizona Advocates & Actions yesterday as 20 Bank of America mortgage holders demanded that their modifications finally be fast tracked at the BofA Service Center in Phoenix yesterday.  That’s the good news!

The rest sucks, as we look around the [...]