Memphis Changing planes heading for the West Coast, and even on Labor Day when it’s time to talk about why unions matter and what we need to do about it, we are blocked by our inability to unite to stand together against the new McCarthyism. My twitter and Facebook buddies were wild in the tweets …
Author: wade
Stopping Hater McCarthyism
New Orleans I take all of these constant attacks personally, because they are meant to be personal, but I understand them as political, and increasingly believe that we are missing that critical difference in responding to the hater-ation of the right. The Van Jones push-out is a perfect example. Jones has made a hard mark …
Working Poor Catch a Break
Washington It’s hard to make everyone happy around the nation’s capitol these days. I was reading a column in the Washington Examiner that rued the fact that a koffee-klatch meeting with friends and interested Citizen Wealth readers in the Baltimore basement of SEIU 1199 wasn’t some kind of arena rock venue and where the columnist …