Washington This is starting to get embarrassing. There has to be universal consensus that James O’Keefe the sneak videographer is a total punk, but somehow we keep falling for this stuff. Look at the record: He and his accomplice sting ACORN in the fall of 2009 as part of an orchestrated right-wing attack and do so with …
Category: National Politics
Glenn Beck and William Kristol Brawl over John Birchers and Middle East
New Orleans When William Kristol of the intellectual right, Weekly Standard, is coming to your defense against Glenn Beck of Fox and other platforms, it would be a mistake to believe that everything is “right with the world,” since it is more likely the equivalent of a no-punches-thrown schoolyard shouting match. But, sure enough in …
Collective Bargaining Under Attack
New Orleans It’s hard hearing and reading the reports about the attack on unions in Wisconsin. After a life of avoiding the mass emails of any listserv, I ended up on one arbitrarily when I joined a group, so I’ve been inundated with hyperbolic messages that find the pushback in Wisconsin by labor heroic and …